Implementing Document Management in Alfresco 3- part2

In this article by Munwar Shariff, we will learn how to use Alfresco as a smart document repository. This will include providing automatic version tracking and control, and accessing documents in the Alfresco repository from your web browser, a network drive, FTP, or WebDAV.

Audio Fields in Drupal

In this article by Aaron Winborn, we'll go through the FileField module. This is a useful module if you want to have an easily configured solution, in many situations, there are some benefits from using the FileField module instead. It's light-weight, it's flexible, and it's easy to customize. It may also be easier to add support for players other than the 1PixelOut and XSPF players distributed with Audio.

Additionally, as of this writing, the Drupal 6 version of the Audio module wasn't quite ready for production. But I am confident it will be soon, if not already.

Finally, there may be specific reasons for wanting to choose a FileField solution over the Audio module. Similar to the quandary of whether to use the Image module or Image Field, the most common reason would probably be to allow multiple audio files to be attached to a node, or to allow audio fields to be associated with other types of nodes. (Note that the Audio module is also bundled with the Audio Attach module, which might be a solution for that as well.)

Debugging REST Web Services

Learning how to figure out why things are going wrong is one of the key aspects of developing software. We call it debugging. While dealing with REST services and clients, things can go wrong and it would help a great deal to know how to find out what is causing the problems.

In this article by Samisa Abeysinghe, we will look into the techniques such as message capturing and analyzing to get to know if things are going fine, and if not, what sort of problems are causing trouble.

Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4: Part 1

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have garnered a lot of attention in recent times and rightly so. They offer a rich and responsive user interface and embed several Web 2.0 features that are required in today’s applications. Key features among them include rich media integration, responsiveness, real-time, offline capabilities and a desktop/web deployment model.

There are several tools/frameworks available today to develop RIAs. One of the leading frameworks that has garnered a lot of attention and developer interest over the last couple of years is the Flex Framework from Adobe Systems.

This article by Romin Irani introduces the RIA development framework Flex and its development IDE Flash Builder 4 (FB4) to the readers. The article covers the following:

• What is Flex Ecosystem
• Setting up the Development IDE, Flash Builder Beta 4
• Sample programs that take the reader through the mechanics of developing applications using Flash Builder 4.

Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4: Part 2

Read Part One of Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4 here.

Getting Started with Scratch 1.4 (Part 1)

The anticipation of learning a new programming language can sometimes leave us frozen on the starting line, not knowing what to expect or where to start. In this two-part article by Michael Badger, we will:

• Take a tour of the Scratch interface
• Create a couple of sample projects
• Learn some basic Scratch programming concepts
• Get our minds racing

Our specific objectives include:

• Learning how to work with Scratch
• Learning basic Scratch programming commands
• Finding inspiration to fuel our creativity

Optimizing Lighttpd

This article written by Andre Bogus will help us make Lighttpd work even faster. Before we start optimizing our Lighttpd installation, there are some things to consider such as where is Lighttpd going to run?

The most tested system with perhaps the most optimized backend is Linux. So if we need to squeeze every little request per second out of a server, it is a sure guess. In fact, apart from Linux, all systems except Windows are quite capable of delivering good performance.