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.
Learn the basics of how to develop a plugin for Clearspace 2.0 from Jive engineer, Jon Garrison. Jon talks about spring, struts, and more in this video.
You can also download the Quicktime version (Caution: file is ~140MB), 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.
Learn about the architectural and other technical changes that we made in Clearspace 2.0 from Jive engineering manager Nick Hill along with an overview of the new features from Clay Moore, Jive product manager.
This 20 minute video covers Spring, Acegi, Struts and more on the technical side. New features including personalized home pages, projects, organizational relationships, and document sharing are also reviewed in the video.
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
If you want to easily embed videos in your Clearspace blog posts, documents, and discussions, we have two plugins that might be useful.
The YouTube macro lets you embed videos from YouTube, which is great for smaller videos. For longer videos (more than the 10 minute YouTube limit), we have a blip.tv plugin.
All of the videos on Jivespace use the blip.tv plugin. Here's an example in action:
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.
In this video, Bill Lynch and Greg Unrein talk about how product planning works at Jive Software, but more importantly they will give you an early look at some of our ideas to evolve Clearspace in 2008. If you have been wondering what we have been up to for the past couple of months as we release mostly bug fixes, here is your chance to learn more!
Watch this video to learn more about how Rick Palmer from Jive Software created a widget for Clearspace to display more information about users. You can also get more information about the User Stats Widget Plugin, download it, or view the source code on Jivespace.<br><br>
