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Posted by David Nuescheler NOV 29, 2010

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Introducing CQ 5.4, an early sneak-peek.

At our Ignite 2010 customer summit in Berlin and Chicago I was able to present a sneak-peek of my personal Top 10 favorite features.

While there was a lot that I was not able to fit into my top ten feature list, I think it still was a great list of features.

Please find below the somewhat static rendition of the presentation. It was definitely a lot of fun this year again.

Looking forward to Ignite 2011.

Introducing CQ5.4: Sneak-Peek

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Posted by David Nuescheler AUG 12, 2010

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Introducing JSOP

For the past number of years I always found myself in the situations where I wanted to exchange fine-grained information between a typical current browser and a server that persists the information.

In most cases for me the server obviously was a "Content Repository", but I think the problem set is more general and applies to any web application that manages and displays data or information.


It seemed that every developer would come up with an ad-hoc solution to that very same problem of reading or writing fine-grained data at a more granular level than a resource.


While there are definitely different protocol specifications like WebDAV or AtomPub to address the issue it seems like they are not very "browser" friendly, meaning that it takes a modern browser and a lot of patience with javascript to get to a point where one could interact with a server using either of the two.

After talking to a number of people it seemed that this would be an interesting area to start a conversation about a specification approach to this.

Please find the proposal on the IETF WebDAV mailing list here. Comments are very welcome.


JSOP in 60 seconds

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Posted by David Nuescheler MAY 14, 2010

Posted in cmis, content management, ipad, iphone, java content repository, jcr, mobile and wcms Comment 1



The Future of WCM - CM Forum Belgium

I was invited to speak at the CM Forum in Brussels on the Future of WCM. I think it is a very broad topic and it is hard to make specific predictions, so it was tricky to come up with something meaningful.

Here is what I came up with. Feedback (as always) very welcome.

According to my predictions (or wishes) in this presentation the Future is...

1. OPEN.
2. CLOUDY.
3. BUSINESS.
4. CONTEXT.
5. AGILE.
6. MOBILE.

Is your WCM future proof?


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Posted by David Nuescheler MAR 29, 2010

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And the winner is...: Robert Cailliau

Last week I had the honor to present the co-developer of the world wide web, Robert Cailliau, with a life-time achievement award of the Best of Swiss Web Association.




I was very flattered to be the person to present all his achievements during a gala dinner in the Kongresshaus in Zuerich. It was interesting for me in various different ways.

First I learned a lot of detail about the very beginning of the Web that I did not know before and it was a great opportunity for me to catch up with Robert and talk about old times.

Also I realized that we have a shared passion for standards which is really reflected on his website so we decided that I would not use Apple's Keynote  for the presentation (which usually would be my tool of choice), but I would use just a browser and XHTML, CSS (& friends).

Please find the "Directors Cut" of the presentation here, this version contains a number of extra slides as a little bonus.

Just like Roberts personal website it has not been tested with Internet Explorer and works best with Firefox & Safari on a Mac. Either click through the presentation or use the cursors on your keyboard to move through the presentation. In Firefox you may want to hit Shift-Command-F (on a Mac) for a fullscreen experience.


It definitely was a very interesting experience to give a presentation infront of 800 people without keynote as my trusty companion, but I have to say the rendering engines of browsers have come a long way, and it all worked out beautifully.



To give you a little bit of context I thought I'd write down some of the content of my presentation.


Robert and I met about 11 years ago when he was responsible for the public websites of the Cern. As a WCM Vendor we were invited to go and present our technology. I was fully aware of the importance of the Cern relative to the Web's history, but I was not prepared to meet one of the two developers of the Web in that meeting.

After the meeting I was deeply impressed with Roberts insights and went back to the office and googled him, which was when I realized who I had just met. It dawned on me that I had the opportunity to take a deep look into "Web history" that day.


Congratulations to Robert Cailliau, who I think of as a great visionary, but more importantly as a fascinating and charismatic genius who profoundly impacted all our lives.

Posted by David Nuescheler FEB 05, 2010

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Welcome OpenCMIS! Building Chemistry...

Today is a great day for Apache Chemistry: the OpenCMIS community just added their very exciting code base. And more importantly: the OpenCMIS community joined the Chemistry community.

The contribution consists of a general purpose java client that already seems very well architected and already very mature in its code base, granted that CMIS is not even released as a 1.0 yet. This will definitely help to advance the efforts of Chemistry both on the Server and on the Client. I am convinced that all the lessons learned from OpenCMIS will be greatly appreciated by the Chemistry community and will have a very positive impact on the joint code base.

From an Apache community standpoint I think it is very noteworthy that the list of contributors of OpenCMIS includes people from various companies, so I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the following people into the Chemistry community and thank them for their outstanding achievement.


• David Caruana (Alfresco) (existing Chemistry PMC member)
• David Ward (Alfresco)
• Florian Müller (Open Text)
• Jens Hübel (Open Text)
• Martin Hermes (SAP)
• Paul Goetz (SAP)
• Stephan Klevenz (SAP)

Since I had the pleasure to work with most of them before I am really looking forward to our joint work in Chemistry as a community open source project.