Save 15% on Alfresco Developer Guide

Forgive this temporary transgression into a blatant sales pitch, but I’m trying to save you some money. Packt Publishing is offering ECM Architect readers 15% off my book, the Alfresco Developer Guide. To take advantage of the discount:

  1. Visit the Alfresco Developer Guide Book Page
  2. Click the “ADD TO CART” button to add the book to your shopping cart
  3. Enter AlfrescoDG-3117 in the “Promotional Code” field and click the “Update Button”. The discounted price should now be reflected in your order.

After your book arrives, if you read it and decide it was the best Packt book published in 2008, you should take a minute to vote for the Alfresco Developer Guide in Packt’s Author of the Year awards. Voting ends May 25.

11 comments

  2. Rio Grande says:

    Your book, I’m reading it at the moment end I have difficulties too progress because there are often bad explanation or things that are not entirely explained. I know I’m not very good in English but I didn’t meet such problems with the Alfresco Book form Munwar Shariff.

  3. jpotts says:

    Thanks for reading. I’d like to help you through the parts that aren’t clear to you, but you’ll have to give me some specific examples of where you are having trouble.

    Jeff

  4. Rio Grande says:

    I have many examples; the best thing is probably that I send you en email (if I find one 🙂 with a list of problems.

  6. Mark B says:

    Hi Jeff,

    I’m working my through the book… I appreciate your examples. Also, the chapters cover a lot of good territory. A few things I’m fighting with. 1. No Surf examples. Are you coming out with Surf book anytime soon? 2. The examples are very eclipse-centric, which always requires a bit of translating for me. 3. When is your next code camp?

    Anyway, I’ve gotten Alfresco running on glassfish and finally got Surf to pull a few web scripts out of Alfresco. Yay. Still, I have a lot to learn…

  7. jpotts says:

    Mark,

    Thanks for reading. I’m glad you are finding it helpful.

    For Surf and Code Camp, take a look at:
    http://www.slideshare.net/jpotts/tags/code_camp

    Start with the Agenda to understand the preferred order for the rest of the presentations.

    Regarding Eclipse, definitely the examples in the book assume that’s the IDE you are using. The source code and the Ant scripts will work even if you don’t use Eclipse. But, obviously, if you are using another IDE and you want to use it to build, you’ll have to configure it to point to the dependencies, source code, documentation, etc. I had to pick what I thought was the most widely used tool. Plus, the Alfresco SDK is already delivered with a collection of Eclipse projects.

    Glad you got Glassfish working. If you’ve documented what you learned while doing that, please share the links.

    Jeff

  8. kabes says:

    Hi Jeff,

    Great book! Full of examples and useful information that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.

    I do have a question regarding WCM No-Approval Workflow, which we have implemented from your example. It appears that workflow does not complete after content is submitted – the ‘submitted’ task reports it is still in progress. As a result, the AVM store fills up with workflow nodes, and users end up with a long list of tasks to do.

    Is this what you would expect, or have we implemented this incorrectly? We have found that changing ‘submitted’ from a task-node to a node solves the issue for immediate deployment, but this cannot be used for the ‘submit-pending’ task-node, which contains a timer.

    Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks
    Katrina

  9. jpotts says:

    Katrina,

    What version of Alfresco are you running? In 3.1 they changed how AVM workflows work so mine may need some tweaking. I haven’t tested that no-approval submit in 3.1.

    Jeff

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