Alfresco is an open source enterprise level CMS application.

It provides document management, collaboration (in beta), records management, knowledge management, web content management and imaging.

Alfresco is built with Java & can be installed in both Window & Linux environments via "all-in-one installers".

Some features of Alfresco:

• Web Content Management
  • Web content authors can access and contribute content
  • Simply preview in-context changes to any web page or web application
  • Reduce the risk of error with simple a virtualization of changes against a live site
  • Use your tool of choice, such as Dreamweaver, for web interface development
  • The ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy and .NET
• Document Management
  • All content is available via a shared drive interface
  • All content is available from within MS Office
  • Work in an MS Office environment for authoring and viewing
  • Save, version, share, search and audit
  • & many more..

This application is great for any company who wants to manage all the information from one central including websites, documents & knowledge.

Last week, a post had announced 3 Pro licenses giveaway for JCODER Java IDE ($79 value / each).

We have the winners selected. Before that, JCODER Java IDE is running a special 50% discount to WebResourcesDepot readers which is valid until 18 November 2008. Click here to get the discount.

To remember:

JCODER Java IDE is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java developers. It allows you to compile and debug your Java  program from the editor environment, as well as browse through your classes, etc.

Here are the winners:

• stan (comment #18151)
• SEANRON (comment #18311)
• Marius (comment #18180)

Thanks to everyone who contributed & congratulations to the winners.

JCODER Java IDE, which is a fresh & powerful product, is giving away 3 Pro licenses ($79 value / each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Details of the giveaway can be found at the end of the post.

50% Special Discount For The JCODER Java IDE

There is also a special 50% discount to WebResourcesDepot readers which is valid until 18 November 2008 via the link below:

Click here to get the discount.

What Is  JCODER Java IDE?

It is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java developers. It allows you to compile and debug your Java  program from the editor environment, as well as browse through your classes, etc.

It offer the tools as other professional softwares offer like:

• project management
• wizards
• class viewer
• package viewer
• ant viewer
• tabbed documents
• JDK profiles (which allows you to work with multiple Java Development Kits)
• a customizable user interface, etc.

In addition, JCODER Java IDE equips a comprehensive set of code editor tools enabling developers to rapidly create sophisticated Java applications/applets and meet increasingly aggressive deadlines.

With the instantly updating (when new files are created) navigation tree of the project, smart code completion, code folding (a great feature when working with large code blocks), syntax checking / highlighting & multi-document editing the product makes coding easier & organized. And, it has full screen mode while source code editing which is nice.

These are not the all features of JCODER Java IDE. To check them all, click here.

P.S. JCODER Java IDE is compatible with all previous version of JDKs published by Sun Microsystems.

How To Win The Free Licenses?

Simply comment to this post & that’s all.

Winners will be selected randomly from commenters 1 week later (18 September 2008 – Thursday) with the SQL query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=515 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all : ). 

Document management & versioning is vital when reaching data quickly, specially, in multi-user environments.

OpenKM is a Web 2.0 style, multiplatform, open source, Ajaxed document management application which is built with usability in mind.

Thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface, OpenKM transforms complex operations into easy tasks. It allows the storage, classification and use of all kind of files and documents within an user friendly framework.

One of the more relevant functions to mention is the indexing of the most common types of files: text, Office, Office 2007, OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, XML, MP3, JPEG, etc. Its powerful search motor indexes all documents making it easy to find any information.

Some features of OpenKM

• Drag and drop
• Document control version
• Search by content and metadata
• LDAP or DBMS integration
• Public API by Webservices
• Store on any DBMS
• More than 8 languages

Mindquarry is a brilliant open source application to organize teams in means of documents, ideas and tasks. Shortly, their collaboration.

This team collaboration application can be reached both from the browsers and from a desktop application.

Document Management

The strongest part of the application is document management.  It uses Subversion for document versioning and backup, supports file syncronization, collaborative editing and has notification system for the updates made within the documents.

Wiki

You can create wikis, assigns them to teams or tasks to manage the ideas and information. Updates made to the wiki content can be viewed within the activity timeline, pdf output can be generated and more.

Team Management

Teams are holding the user groups together. They can be assigned to tasks, have their own wikis and permission groups on documents, tasks..

Task Management

Mindquarry has a handy task management module where tasks can be created, assigned to users, priority levels and their status can be set.

To mention, this is not a project management module and does not have milestones, resources, costs or chart features. It simply allows users to assign and control tasks (for a chance to win a great project management software license check the OneProject Project 8 giveaway).

Conclusion

If you are working in teams, need to share and work on documents together I believe Mindquarry can be a perfect fit as you will be able to:

• Work on the same docs, have them versionned and backed up.
• Create your own information or idea libraries with the wiki feature.
• Assign tasks to each other.

Application requires Apache, Java and Subversion to be installed. Desktop application has Windows, Mac and Linux versions which makes everything much better.

Tip: Mindquarry has a XAMPP download in the downloads section that automatically installs Apache, Subversion and Perl to prepare the application environment.

E-mail marketing, when done professionally, has a serious return rate and measurable.

OpenEMM is a beautiful e-mail marketing (or newsletter management) application with business level capabilities. And best of all, it is open source.

Using this e-mail marketing tool, event and time triggered e-mails can be sent which is a great feature for smarter mailing lists.

Some other features of OpenEMM are:

• Set of pre-configured action forms and template
• Import and export workflows simplified by wizards
• Configuration of different users with different rights/roles
• Create mailing lists for groups of recipients
• Subscription to your mailing lists via confirmed opt-in, double opt-in or via e-mail
• Unsubscription with one click, optional with confirmation query and unsubscribe confirmation by e-mail
• Import and export wizards
• Separation of layout and content (like a content management system)
• Templates
• Detailed real-time statistics with graphical output
• Analysis of opening rate, click rate, unsubscriptions, bounces
• Comparison of multiple mailings based on key data

OpenEMM is mainly written in Java and Python and uses MySQL for storing data.

Woopra is a feature-rich free web-tracking and analytics tool that analyzes your website in real time.

Using Woopra, you can view visitor activity in detail, tag visitors to realize them in their next visits, instant-chat with visitors and even get notified from the site activities that you set.

For developers, Woopra provides a full featured API that allows extracting a website’s data into several common web 2.0 formats, making it useful for use within your own application.

This free desktop site analysis tool is definitely worth to try.

Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.

Clasor InTouch  is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.

Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.

It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.

Open Flash Chart is a free flash chart library which flash charts can be generated via data from php, perl, python, java, asp, asp.net (any dynamic languge) or a text file.

Using Open Flash Chart is as simple as pointing the data to this free flash chart object. To make it simpler, there are ready to use PHP, Perl, Python, Java classes.

Charts supported by Open Flash Chart:

• Data Lines Chart
• Bar Chart
• 3D Bar Chart
• Glass Bar Chart
• Fade Bar Chart
• Sketch Bars Chart
• Area Chart
• Bars + Lines Chart
• Pie Chart
• Scatter Chart
• Candle Chart