Learn all about how to write new widgets for Clearspace 2.0 from Aaron Johnson, Engineering Manager at Jive.
You can also download the Quicktime version (Caution: file is ~285MB), or you can watch a larger version online, which will improve readability of embedded screenshots (recommended).
The entire presentation is also attached below as a PDF file.
As you know, we changed a few things in our underlying architecture for Clearspace 2.0, including some changes in the Freemarker templates as a result of moving from Webwork to Struts along with some other changes. In this video, Matt Walker, Professional Services Engineer at Jive Software, talks about the process of upgrading existing themes along with plenty of best practices to make your themes more easily upgradeable in the future.
You can also download the Quicktime version (Caution: file is ~200MB), or you can watch a larger version online, which will improve readability of embedded screenshots (recommended).
The entire presentation is also attached below as a PDF file.
Aaron Johnson, Jive Engineer, presented to our engineering team about how DWR is used in Clearspace 2.0. He started by walking us through an overview of DWR. After the overview, he showed us exactly how he used DWR in his FeedBlog plugin.
This 7 minute video has the highlights from his presentation.
In this video, Clearspace developer, Nick Hill, talks about how Prototype, Scriptaculous and other Javascript technologies are used within Clearspace 2.0. This was originally presented as an internal Jive training to get our developers up to speed on some of the newer technologies used in Clearspace 2.0, and we wanted to share it with other people doing Clearspace development. If you want to learn more about the Clearspace 2.0 beta, you can visit the beta area on Jivespace.
The pdf file with the complete slides from the presentation is attached below.
I took the best 6 minutes out of a presentation that Fred Brock of Jive Software delivered to our engineering teams to teach all of us about the best ways to develop widgets for Clearspace 2.0. This is a must-see for anyone wanting to write widgets for Clearspace 2.0! I've also attached a PDF version of the slides from Fred's presentation.
Or you can download the Quicktime movie (Caution: ~85MB file)
Jive's Rick Palmer, Professional Services Engineer, takes about 5 minutes to explain how to insert dynamic content into your Clearspace FreeMarker templates. The slide below provides more details.
Learn the basics of customizing your Clearspace theme in this introduction to skinning Clearspace with Matt Walker, professional services engineer (and juggler!) at Jive Software.
I asked our developers here at Jive to respond to the following in 15 seconds or less: tell me your craziest idea for how to improve Clearspace. Here is what they came up with, but make sure you hang around for the bloopers at the end!
At a recent Portland Web Innovators meeting, I led a discussion about different ways to structure a community. This video contains a 20 minute discussion during this meeting where we talked about community structures ranging from emergent to highly structured to adaptive. I also blogged about this topic recently on Jive Talks
Learn more about creating, consuming and using feeds to pull relevant data out of Clearspace. Aaron Johnson from Jive Software provides the details that a developer needs to use feeds in Clearspace.
Learn about the many things you can do to improve the performance of your Clearspace installation. Support Engineer, Will French, covers everything from tweaking cache sizes to running query stats in this Jivespace video.
Want to better understand the differences between Clearspace and Clearspace X along with some ideas for how the two products may evolve over time? Learn more from Jive Software's Aaron Johnson and Greg Unrein.
Occasionally at Jive Software, our developers take a day off from their regular jobs to spend the day writing plugins for our products. After taking Friday off to write plugins for our new Clearspace product, we gathered at 4PM to do a quick review of our creations. This is what happens when a room full of Jive Software employees geek out over cool collaboration technology.
