Collaboration Features in Alfresco Share

Alfresco Share offers a number of such features out-of-the-box. These are features that ensure effective task management. These are completely customizable if need be. The numerous technologies and tools that Alfresco supports ensures that no, or minimal, change be made to the enterprise's existing infrastructure.

Enterprises have a number of tasks that require its people to be able to effectively manage their tasks and schedules. For the purpose of managing intra- and inter-team events, a variety of collaboration tools like calendars, forums, and so on are available. More often than not, there are tools independent of each other, or they may not be compatible with existing systems that are in place.

In this article by Pallika Majmudar, co-author of Alfresco Share, we shall understand the various collaborative features like wiki, blogs, data lists, calendar, discussions, and lists features that Share has on offer.

By the end of this article, you will have learned about:

• Wiki pages and blogs in Share
• Managing data lists
• Creating events in Alfresco Share
• Effective collaboration through discussions
• Managing and creating data lists

Tabula Rasa: Nurturing your Site for Tablets

The Drupal Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide follows a humble ‘Mom & Pop’ restaurant website which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to mobile, tablet and desktop audiences. Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990’s with cutting edge development practices and a team development workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site.

In this article by Tom Stovall, author of Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner’s Guide, we'll:

• Examine touch events and go over the differences between touch events and mouse-click events
• Learn to add touch events to our jQuery cycle on the home page
• Take a look at the adaptive web page designs and begin the process of adapting a design for three layouts—phone, tablets, and desktop
• Learn to set the viewport with JavaScript

The Various Components in Sencha Touch

In this article by John E. Clark and Bryan P. Johnson, authors of Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework, we will take a look at the individual components available in Sencha Touch. we will use the simple base components as a starting point for learning about the more complex components. We'll also talk a bit about how to access our components after they have been created.

This article will cover the following topics:

• The TabPanel and Carousel components
• The FormPanel components
• MessageBox and Sheet
• The map component
• The List and NestedList components

Ext JS 4: Working with the Grid Component

In this article by Loiane Groner, author of Ext JS 4 First Look we will cover some new features and enhancements in the Grid Component. Ext JS 4 introduces major changes compared to Ext JS 3. There is a new data package, new charts, and new, updated layouts. The framework was completely rewritten to boost performance.