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Archive for June, 2009

Social Networking on WordPress? Meet BuddyPress

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Back in July of 2007, Andy Peatling posted on his blog about creating a social network called ChickSpeak on top of WordPressMU, the multi-user version of the popular open source blog platform . It was a compelling possibility – compelling enough that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) hired him to work on it full time.

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BuddyPress 1.0, the result of that effort, was released on April 30th of this year, and is an option that should be seriously considered anywhere a new content-centered community is being built.

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Alfresco Django Integration Screencast

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

In this screencast (yet another in the continuing series by Jeff Potts), Jeff demonstrates an integration (developed by Optaros) of Alfresco and Django.

Consistent with our service oriented content management (SOCM) philosophy the integration enables separation of repository services from presentation services, enabling you to build content-centric applications in the python-based Django framework while still benefiting from the workflow and document management capabilities of Alfresco.

Django-Alfresco integration

Django-Alfresco integration


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