See something cool, learn something new, win something shiny
I went to one of our customers today to demo our Digital Asset Management System (it seems to be DAM-week, see also my presentation at the Henry Stewart Show
) and one of the projects managers told me that he started playing around with Sling and how impressed he was with the power that is hidden in Sling and JCR and how easy it was to build something interesting. So, if you would like to see something cool, just as he did, download CRX Quickstart Edition, which contains CRX (a commerial grade content repository) and Sling (a web application framework built around the concepts of JCR, REST, AJAX, OSGi and Scripting) and take a look at Michael Marth's screencast first steps with CRX Quickstart. (This was the see something cool part)
) and one of the projects managers told me that he started playing around with Sling and how impressed he was with the power that is hidden in Sling and JCR and how easy it was to build something interesting. So, if you would like to see something cool, just as he did, download CRX Quickstart Edition, which contains CRX (a commerial grade content repository) and Sling (a web application framework built around the concepts of JCR, REST, AJAX, OSGi and Scripting) and take a look at Michael Marth's screencast first steps with CRX Quickstart. (This was the see something cool part)
Having seen something cool, it is time to learn something new, namely building applications using Sling and JCR and CRX Quickstart is a great way of doing to. Aside to the aforementioned screencast, there is a second one: the serverside.com in 15 minutes and the rest of the CRX Quickstart documentation we have assembled.
If you now want to win something shiny, namely a brand new MacBook Pro, apply your newly won knowledge and take part in the Day JCR Cup '08, which is one of the reasons we released CRX Quickstart. We want more developers to learn something new, more developers to build something cool and thought that winning something shiny might be a good incentive to do so.
I am Product Manager for Collaboration and Digital Asset Management at 