Ordnance Survey Consultation
I finally got round to completing some responses to the Ordnance Survey Free consultation being run by DCLG, which closed yesterday. Not that I like to leave things to the last minute, of course. When...
View ArticleMy Digital Economy Letter
Turning into a political week, this one. With the Digital Economy Bill threatening to to take us back to an analogue age (oh, the irony), I’ve penned a letter to my MP highlighting the widely-held...
View ArticleBuilding Britain’s Analogue Future
I tried to catch up on Gordon Brown’s surprise appearance today on Number10.gov.uk exclaiming the virtues of ‘superfast’ broadband and the semantic web, but sadly I was disappointed. The player is not...
View ArticleSeven Days to Stop the Bill
My second letter, with hyperlinks. Please feel free to use this as a template to contact your own MPs. Dear Mr Sharma, I wrote to you recently outlining my concerns around the Digital Economy Bill...
View ArticleNet Neutrality
I was horrified enough at Ed Vaisey’s terrible sentiments he expressed over Net Neutrality last week, to write to my MP on the issue. Hopefully Angie will be more responsive to letters from...
View ArticleMaidenhead, Queen of Shops
As I walked up the High Street in Maidenhead today I was pleasantly impressed to see a small market there, with a greengrocers, deli and crafts stall. It seems to be a growing trend, with a number of...
View ArticleTeach our Kids to Code
I tweeted a Guardian article the other week, in which John Naughton looked at the Raspberry Pi and it’s potential, along with several other projects, to fix the broken way in which kids are taught...
View ArticleMy Open Data Consultation Response
This is my response to the UK Government’s Open Data Consultation, which I submitted via email today. Although I wanted to respond earlier, I’m glad I waited, as my experience assisting (or at least...
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Devizes to Wesminster Results 2012
So, the Devizes to Westminster race results from this Easter weekend are up on the official site, and using ScraperWiki I’ve done some crude analysis. Comparing with previous years, there seems little...
View ArticleThe sad reality of cycling in London
As a cyclist living in London I’ve watched the last few days of Olympic competition with great interest. Before the track events even started Team GB knocked up an impressive performance in both the...
View ArticleCreating self-signed SSL certificates for Solr
Since the default SSL certificates that ship with Alfresco’s Solr integration expired the other week I’ve been having to fix up my local development installs that I’d previously configured with Solr....
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New Notice Dashlet and Improvements for Developers
Following hot on the heels of the 4.2.a release from last week, it’s great to see 4.2.b going out this week with another bunch of improvements before DevCon. I’ve been able to help get a few more...
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CMIS support in LibreOffice Experimental Features
Since I upgraded the LibreOffice installation on my Macbook to version 3.6, I’ve been playing around with the CMIS integration built into this version. This is currently an experimental LibreOffice...
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DevCon Berlin rocked, now to San Jose
So with last week’s DevCon event in Berlin over and the second event in San Jose about to kick off, I wanted to share a few of my highlights so far, in addition to what Jeff already posted. Last week...
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Media Viewers and Quick Share
Peter helpfully put together a summary of a couple of the many different content viewers that are now provided by the Media Viewers project. His blog post is well worth checking out if you’re not...
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Media Viewers 2.5 Released!
If you’ve been following the recent activity on Share Extras you’ll notice that most of the work for the last few weeks has been going into the Media Viewers project and in particular the ‘PdfJs’ based...
View ArticleChanges to Transformers configuration in Alfresco 4.2
If like me you have configured some custom transformers against the Alfresco repository in order to convert from one file type to another, you’ll need to be aware of some changes that have been made in...
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Media Viewers 2.6 Released
Hot on the heels of the Alfresco Enterprise 4.2 release this week, the Share Extras team have been busy pushing out an updated version of the Media Viewers add-on, which provides support for viewing...
View ArticleTips for Working from Home
One of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is that in the future a lot more people will start to work from home. However more concerning right now is that a large numbers of people who have been...
View ArticleLast Day
So today is my last day at Alfresco. I guess it’s natural to have mixed feelings at this point, but when I think of all the amazingly gifted people I have met, the things that we did and the fun we...
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