Checking one’s email reputation is a great way to filter for fake signups and assign user permissions according to his/her reputation, especially in B2C scenarios. I love Meetup.com, it’s a great way to organize or attend events with and for like-minded people around any topic in your region. I’m using the platform both as an organizer as well as an attendee. …

Pipl is an information services company with the world’s largest people search engine. Its proprietary identity resolution technology connects publicly available online and offline information from millions of sources. You can leverage its API within Auth0, the Auth0 Rules engine in particular, to enrich user profiles. …

In this blog post I show you how easy it is to setup single-sign-on (SSO with SAML2) for Nextcloud using Auth0 as identity provider (IdP). Nextcloud is an open source (AGPLv3) file sync and sharing (EFSS) solution with millions of users worldwide, a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and…

Did you know that you can sync files in Nextcloud to Salesforce and vice-versa? Yes, it’s possible. Why would you want that? Well, Nextcloud offers a convenient desktop sync and mobile clients with the ability to edit documents online — directly in the web browser and with multiple users at…

In this video, I demonstrate how Nextcloud can be integrated into the Camunda Workflow Engine and vice-versa by showing a sample workflow for an invoice receipt process. Note (due to the comments and questions I received): The main purpose of the video was just to show what’s possible and give some idea and spark imagination, therefore my code base used for this demo is not really in a way to be re-used. It’s basically based on the…

Nextcloud is a leading open-source file sync and sharing platform. It comes with a nice web client, desktop sync client as well as mobile clients. Having worked in the document management field for quite a while (using Alfresco and Nuxeo before), I came across multiple use-cases where users wanted to…

For my personal documents, I use a Nextcloud installation on a RaspberryPi 3 and reachable from the outside. In order to digitalize paper documents that I receive, I’ve been using Scanbot for some years now. It’s an Android app that lets you photograph documents and save them as images or…

These notes are about the preferred choice for a document management system (DMS) and why I am replacing Alfresco with Nuxeo as the preferred choice in new DMS projects. When you google for “Alfresco vs. Nuxeo”, you will eventually find some comparisons, but they are all outdated and about 6…

The problem with the current commenting system as it is used on Facebook as well as other online platforms is that people first share a link to an external article to their preferred social network, then start commenting on it. — This way, the discussion is kept within a data silo, only available to a few friends or members of a certain group. A discussion like this has a pretty short life cycle as it fades away into the Facebook timeline of a certain user or page. The discussion gets separated once another friends shares the item on his own — comments are not copied over, or better, referenced to the original url of the shared article.