Articles, Presentations, and Other Wonderful Things

Since 1999, folks here at Blue Fish have been writing articles and giving presentations on a wide range of Enterprise Content Management topics. We've collected them here for your reading pleasure.

Recent Articles by Practice

Documentum Related Articles

• Basic Documentum Concepts - These articles cover basic Documentum concepts such as object types, workflows, and security.
• Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC) - These articles address issues related to the Documentum Foundation Classes (DFC).
• Interviews - Interviews we've conducted over the years with notable Documentum and EMC employees.
• Misc Documentum Products - Covers issues related to specific Documentum products.
• Presentations - These presentations were given at various Documentum Conferences.
• System Administration - These articles address System Administration tasks related to the Documentum platform.
• Web Development Kit (WDK) - These articles address issues related to Documentum's Web Development Kit (WDK).
• Web Publisher - These articles cover Documentum Web Publisher & the entire Web Content Management (WCM) Edition.

The Complete Archive

From the one we wrote yesterday way back to the very first article from 1999, here's a list of every article we've ever written.

• Using Documentum Lifecycle State Extensions (August 6, 2008)
• Bullet Proof Markup: Designing for Web Content Management Systems (August 6, 2008)
• Automate BOF Module Deployment During Development (August 6, 2008)
• What’s New in Endeca 6.0 (July 23, 2008)
• Using Custom Utility Methods in Migration Workbench (June 24, 2008)
• Planning for the Data Migration that’s Lurking in Your Content Migration (June 9, 2008)
• An Introduction to Web Publishing Jobs in Documentum (May 13, 2008)
• Using Migration Workbench to Address Common Content Migration Issues (May 13, 2008)
• DFC Search In Depth (April 8, 2008)
• Custom Java Lifecycle Modules (April 8, 2008)
• Initiating an IM Program across a Multi-Business Enterprise (April 8, 2008)
• Simplifying Endeca Deployments: The Deployment Template (April 8, 2008)
• Google Enterprise Search Appliance Overview (April 8, 2008)
• Architecting Endeca for Large Data Deployments (December 27, 2007)
• Technical Challenges Faced During Content Migrations (December 21, 2007)
• Integrating Web Publisher and WordPress (December 13, 2007)
• Introduction to DFS Web Services Client Programming (September 27, 2007)
• Introduction to Web Publisher Contributor (September 26, 2007)
• Endeca Discover 2007 - Moving Beyond Retail Search (September 25, 2007)
• Benefits of Consolidating Your Enterprise Content Repositories (September 7, 2007)
• Introduction to Documentum’s Content Server OEM Edition (July 10, 2007)
• Testing DFC Offline Using Mock Objects (July 9, 2007)
• EMC World 2007: Evergreen Investments - Using EMC Documentum Web Publisher for Secure Access to Financial Information (May 24, 2007)
• EMC World 2007: Getting Started with the Documentum Content Server OEM Edition (May 21, 2007)
• EMC World 2007: Unit Testing Documentum Foundation Classes Code (May 21, 2007)
• Demo: The Power of Web Publisher (April 16, 2007)
• Understanding the WCM Market (April 3, 2007)
• Business Considerations for Content Migrations (March 29, 2007)
• Common Content Migration Scenarios (March 27, 2007)
• Preparing for Changes in 2007 Daylight Saving Time (March 5, 2007)
• ISV Integrations: Methods for Integrating Documentum with a 3rd Party Enterprise Application (November 13, 2006)
• Software Developer Conference 2006: Automated DFC Unit Testing (November 13, 2006)
• Allergan: EMC Documentum Compliance Manager Migration Revisited- What a Difference Two Years Makes (September 21, 2006)
• Lockheed Martin: Power to the People - Enabling Ever US Citizen to Participate in Federal Rule Making (September 21, 2006)
• Bausch & Lomb: Leveraging Web Content Management to Enforce Your Master Brand (September 20, 2006)
• Solvay Pharmaceuticals: Importing Large Sets of Content from Trusted Partners into your Repository (September 19, 2006)
• Wells Fargo: Streamlining EMC Documentum Web Publisher to Increase Web Author Productivity (September 19, 2006)
• Planview: Using Web Services To Integrate a .NET Solution with EMC Documentum (September 19, 2006)
• BHP Billiton: Tapping Into A Massively Interconnected Knowledge Network (September 19, 2006)
• Getting Started with DFC and DQL (June 1, 2006)
• Introduction to WDK Scoping (April 10, 2006)
• Using the 5.3 Web Services Framework (April 6, 2006)
• A Practical Guide to the Business Object Framework (January 2, 2006)
• Web Publisher Template Basics (December 30, 2005)
• Unit Testing DFC Code (December 28, 2005)
• Site Deployment Services Rapid Install, Config and Troubleshooting (December 21, 2005)
• Configuring and Customizing Documentum Email Facilities (December 14, 2005)
• The Future of Web Content Management: Andy Simmons and Greg Dierickse (November 17, 2005)
• The Challenges of Compliance: Mark Arbour and Andrew Chapman (November 10, 2005)
• Solvay Pharmaceuticals: Feeling Good About Your Migration - A Field-proven Framework For Performing Validated Documentum Migrations (October 20, 2005)
• Southwest Airlines: How to make the great leap from paper to digital (September 30, 2005)
• Howard Shao: Changing the World (August 31, 2005)
• Using Agile Processes on Documentum Projects (April 30, 2005)
• Validation Strategy in WDK (April 5, 2005)
• Federation and Replication Integrity (March 29, 2005)
• Creating Simple WDK Controls (January 5, 2005)
• Failover in the Documentum Suite (January 4, 2005)
• Using Alias Sets Part 2 (January 2, 2005)
• Using DFC Collections (January 1, 2005)
• WDK Developer Server Packs (December 26, 2004)
• Distributed Documentum Architectures (November 26, 2004)
• Using Server Clusters for Failover (November 14, 2004)
• Changing Documentum’s Installation Owner (November 9, 2004)
• Using Documentum’s Verity Full Text Engine (October 31, 2004)
• The Content Server Audit Facility (October 31, 2004)
• Extending Simple WDK Controls (October 31, 2004)
• Introduction to Federations and Replication (October 31, 2004)
• DFC Query Manager (October 1, 2004)
• Validation in WDK (October 1, 2004)
• Groups or Roles: What’s the Difference? (August 2, 2004)
• The Documentum Java Method Server (August 2, 2004)
• Using Alias Sets Part 1 (July 14, 2004)
• Dump and Load a Docbase (December 21, 2003)
• Tracing in DFC 5.2 and Beyond (December 20, 2003)
• Session Management in DFC 5.x and WDK (December 20, 2003)
• Interview with Kevin O’Connor (May 5, 2003)
• Interview with John McCormick (May 5, 2003)
• Introduction to the Business Objects Framework (May 5, 2003)
• Streaming Document Content using DFC (December 3, 2002)
• Creating a Simple Lifecycle (December 3, 2002)
• Object Relationships (December 3, 2002)
• WebCache Intro and Q&A (December 3, 2002)
• Documentum Reporting Gateway (December 3, 2002)
• Documentum ftpIntegrator 4.2.4 (December 3, 2002)
• Common Document Management Terms (December 3, 2002)
• XDQL Overview (December 3, 2002)
• Creating Stylesheets for WebPublisher Content (December 3, 2002)
• Workflow Programming using DFC (December 3, 2002)
• DFC Operations Package (December 3, 2002)
• Configuring DFC 4.2 Standalone (December 3, 2002)
• Custom WDK 4.2 Widgets (December 3, 2002)
• XML Transformations Using DFC Methods (December 3, 2002)
• The Docbroker Projection Target (December 3, 2002)
• Network Address Translation for Docbrokers (December 3, 2002)
• Moving a Docbase (December 3, 2002)
• Introduction to Documentum Tracing (December 3, 2002)
• Documentum Performance Tips (December 3, 2002)
• Using SMTP for Documentum Email (December 3, 2002)
• JDBC eConnector (December 3, 2002)
• What is Documentum? (December 9, 1999)
• Documentum Virtual Documents (December 3, 1999)
• Documentum Methods (December 3, 1999)
• Documentum Access Control Lists (December 3, 1999)
• Documentum Object Types (December 3, 1999)
• Documentum Registered Tables (December 3, 1999)
• Error Handling in the Documentum DMCL API (December 3, 1999)