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Nate McMinn has a brief wrap up of the Alfresco developers convention. I was unable to attend and it sounds like I missed a lot of interesting news. I was excited to here: One upcoming project that was discussed at DevCon is putting together a third-party components catalog for Alfresco. Right now there is nothing like this available. Alfresco community projects are scattered all over the place. Some are in Alfresco Forge, some are on Google Code, still others are on developers’ blogs (mine included). I’m sure I’m forgetting a few locations, but you get the idea. Rolling all of this up in one queryable repository would be a fantastic addition to the Alfresco community. ...

Kevin Roast’s blog had a great post about Authentication User’s against an Alfresco Repository. When we first explored Surf, when it starting to get traction in 3.2 or 3.3 our major complaint was that it seemed difficult to actually connect to the repository. I’m glad to see that this has changed. Or that it is now better documented. Technorati Tags: Alfresco

Dick Weisinger over at FormTek posted a great article on adding new workflows to the Share 3.4 using the newly updated form service. I’m currently developing similar functionality for 3.4b and found the same results - jbmp workflows just seems to work in the share interface. Article