JCR and Sling quick dive
When getting in first touch with CQ5 and CRX, shipped by Day Software, now part of Adobe, the stakeholders need to understand the basic concepts of the Open Architecture embraced by those systems.
This is an easy to understand introduction to JCR and Sling architecture.
The hierarchical model explained (and put on)
In my Day job, I often find myself explaining our basic approach on content modeling. Sometimes this is something new to my audience and in most cases I find a very high level of interest.
This presentation by Jukka Zitting, project management committee chair for Apache Jackrabbit, explains very well how the hierarchical model approach can be a great alternative to the old school RDBMS like structured one.
For other great hints on content modeling see also the 7 David Nuescheler’s model points.
