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A shift in Alfresco Community license to LGPL
First of all, it's my pleasure to recognize Alfresco's 5th birthday. In January 2005, a group of eleven of us started on a fantastic journey from a familiar world, Enterprise Content Management, into an unfamiliar one, Open Source. During this......
At the recent AIIM Board Meeting that I attended this month, AIIM President John Mancini asked us to blog using the number 8. Why 8? Because no one else is using that number and AIIM can brand around it. So......
CMIS one year on - soon in public review
Autumn marks the new school year, business year and CMIS year It's that time again. Autumn and the new school year and we are about to take another major step with CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services proposed standard at......
Professional Open Source Software
I am constantly asked about why we put our software out as open source. Is it some sort of altruism? Communism? People who have worked with proprietary platforms may not be familiar with open source and its implications or the......
New Alfresco 3.2 was designed for the Great Recession
Back at the height of the market downturn in October, we looked at how Alfresco should address the rapidly changing economic situation. Rather than being pessimistic, we believed that this was a real opportunity for us. Times like these wipe......
I have been researching the origins of open source recently and realized that I had missed an important anniversary last year. On a very rainy day in early February 1998, a group of people very familiar with free software met......
OpenCms News
Update of Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms released
Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The latest OCEE release version 2.1.2 is a maintenance update that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the...
This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.2. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that persisted in the 7.5.1 version, including some OpenCms Workplace compatibility issues with newer browser versions. Main new features of OpenCms 7.5 Support for image cropping in image gallery ...
Version 7.5.2 of OpenCms is now available for download. OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of issues that...
New Alkacon OCEE version for OpenCms available
Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website. The latest OCEE release version 2.1.1 is an important update that fixes a number of potential issues and introduces some...
This is the release of OpenCms 7.5.1. With OpenCms 7.5.1, some additional features have been added to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues have been fixed, including some reported security problems that affected the OpenCms Workplace. New features and improvements in OpenCms 7.5.1 Added context menu...
Version 7.5.1 of OpenCms is now available for download. OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 7.5.1 adds several new features to the core system. Moreover, a number...
TakingAIIM
Context is King and ECM-based BI is the Keys to the Kingdom
Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrap paolo) about a Boston Globe article on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that, but then this morning, serendipitously I heard a story on NPR about the dramatically changing world......
Content Security and KM "D'oh"
OK, I admit it. I do not spend all my weekends sitting around thinking deep ECM and KM thoughts. I enjoy hanging out with the kids and indulging in some mindless TV watching. Its amazing though how the KM/ECM geek......
A Historical Moment for the ECM and RM Industry
Today, I learned that Miep Gies died. She was a stellar example of why content and records management is so important. Many of you may not recognize her name, but you will likely recognize the name of the content author......
ECM: A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet – and I do mean Sweet
A week ago, my long time colleague, whose opinion I respect, Whitney Tidmarh, (@whitneytidmars) EMC Documentum CMO and AIIM Board member tweeted the following: “ Great discussion with #AIIM board about the relevance of the term #ECM today. Does #ECM......
Making Blogs More Transparent Angers Bloggers - Huh?
An article in today's Boston Globe, reports that a new regulation will compel bloggers to disclose any affiliations or gifts they have received. What makes this article especially interesting to me is the reaction of bloggers. Bloggers are reportedly "unhappy"......
Nothing Virtual About Virtual Distance
Today I had the great fortune to attend the Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS) program at Babson College. I almost didn’t go – having just returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I was feeling a bit “full” of talk......
CMSWire.com - All News
SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Using Hosted Services Might Be Better Off
February and we just can’t seem to get away from the dual obsessions of hosted solutions and security. Particularly telling in the SMB sector, it looks like these are two areas we are going to be hearing a lot about over the course of the year. Read full story... ...
Autonomy Reports Record 2009, Thanks in Part to Interwoven Acquisition
So, Autonomy (news, site) had a pretty good 2009. No surprise there, considering the company ate up every bit of Interwoven around this time last year. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter ...
Nuxeo DAM Goes GA, Touts CMIS Compliance
As promised late last year, and after weeks of public beta, Nuxeo (news, site) has released the GA version of its new Digital Asset Management (DAM) product. In addition to extensible architecture and a decent feature set, one of the main selling points seems to be Nuxeo DAM’s compliance with the...
Worldwide IT Spending on Its Way Up in 2010, But Not By Much
IDC (news, site) has a new research report available on growth of worldwide IT spending and while it’s improving, it’s not by much. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter ...
WoodWing Integrates Smart Catalog with Enterprise Publishing
WoodWing Software (news, site) just updated their Smart Catalog productivity plugins. The tool, which is used for the rapid distribution of publications that rely on external data (TV guides, price lists, etc.) can now utilize the formatting power of Adobe inDesign and InCopy. Read full story... Follow...
Oracle and SYSTIME Develop Process Integration Pack for PLM
Building on its Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution, Oracle (news, site) has just announced the availability of a Process Integration Pack (PIP) between its Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its suite of enterprise planning resource software JD Edwards Enterprise One. Read full story... Follow us on...
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Web Content Management, simplifying technology.
Web content management system also reckoned as WCMS is basically a software, which is generally appl...
Enterprise Content Management for the most part has become mainstream business. The ability to scan...
A look back at 2009 and the Web Content Management Industry
It’s a new year, indeed a new decade, so it seems only appropriate to take a look back at how...
Content Management Trends in 2010
Today, there are companies who has not even adopted to a content management solution for their organ...
New_Year_2010 (7), originally uploaded by Green_Mamba. The echoes of corks popping (and carbonated a...
SharePoint: The New Face of Your Enterprise Architecture
Business Users today have to operate on tens, if not hundreds of applications, as part of their dail...
CMS Watch Trends and Features
Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello. The U.K.-based vendor will be dropping the "Content Manager Corporate" edition product (CMC, formerly known as Immediacy)...
Non-disclosure is a non-starter
We've mentioned this a time or two before, but in recent dealings with a well-known WCM and DAM vendor there seemed to be some confusion about it, so perhaps it bears discussing one more time. We have a policy at CMS Watch of not signing NDAs with the vendors we evaluate....
The trouble with DAM and your corporate laptops
The net-wide discussion over the Apple iPad's lack of Adobe Flash support has brought back a few memories for me: ones in which DAM tools with sexy Flash interfaces can't run in large, corporate locked-down environments, where there's restrictions against downloading just about anything (such as a special plug-in, or...
How Does Your Portal Expose its Services?
Enterprises have traditionally used portal technology to aggregate content and functionality from different applications. In that sense, portals have typically been consumers of services. ...
Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects
Our job here is to advise buyers of technology, never vendors. But today I am going to make an exception and give the vendors out there a solid tip. Do your homework before responding to RFPs. Now that we have search tools like Bing and Google, ten minutes desk research can return...
Many Portal Products Getting Refreshed
Last week we released some significant updates to our Enterprise Portals Research. The latest research reflects significant changes among new versions of several portal platforms, as...
CMS Report
EPiServer, Umbraco, and Omeka added to CMS Report's CMS Focus
This week we added three Web applications to our CMS Focus top 30 list. The CMSs and ECMs listed in CMS Focus are not necessarily the most popular in content management and are not meant to meet everyone's requirements for a CMS. ...
Nuxeo Releases CMIS-Enabled Digital Asset Management Application
Open Source DAM Solution For Managing Rich Media Assets Now Available BOSTON, February 4, 2010--Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announced today the general availability of its open source Digital Asset Management offering Nuxeo DAM. Nuxeo DAM is the latest application based on the...
The Economist: Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles Complete Story...
Looking for 3 fantastic content management systems
Since the early days of CMSReport.com, I have been providing a list of the top 30 Web applications that interest me the most. This list is called CMS Focus. If you take a close look at this list, you will find that I currently need three additional content management systems...
Major 3-Day London Cloud Conference Attracts Wide International Audience
London, 2 February 2010 - The 2nd PoweredbyCloud 2010 and the first international Cloud Law Summit taking place in London over three days, 8-9-10 February 2010 has attracted a wide international audience, particularly from the enterprise sector (www.poweredbycloud.com). The PoweredbyCloud conference has established a reputation for providing strategic insight into the...
XOOPS CMS gains popularity, speeds up development
XOOPS Projects is enjoying an impressive increase in popularity, measured by number of new users, as well as new developers joining the XOOPS Team. This is confirmed by Alexa.com, showing a very strong 2009 increase in percent of global Internet users who visit www.xoops.org Thanks to the influx of...
Story2.OH - Blog
Monday and Tuesday on Crushing it. Dave's mom embarrassed him. Then she embarrassed him some more. Then it really got bad. Barb and Laurence had another wedding disaster. Bootywatchman finally got his groove on, but Neal didn't like it too much. Peter had a plan that Lily didn't like too much. But why was Barb so high...
Tuesday February 2, 2010 on Twitter's top comedy soap opera, David and Barbara met up for coffee accidentally on purpose. If you don't know what happened Monday, read it here. When Lily went into labour, David ended up as chauffeur. Turned out Lily wasn't in labour, but but Dave turned things...
Crushing It! An Update in Tweets
Two episodes down and here's what's happened so far. Lily got some good news. Peter did some math. Barbara considered calling off the wedding. Laurence tried to be the voice of reason. Laurence’s friend Brad might not be the best best man. David is having a bad day. And it looks like it may get worse. And worse. Lucky...
Curtain Goes up at 1 p.m. Eastern
Barbara and Laurence are supposed to be getting married on Friday. Between now and then, Laurence will let Brad talk him into “one last fling.” Barbara will spill coffee on Dave… who promptly falls in love with her. Dave’s girlfriend, Carmella, will probably have something to say about that. Lily,...
Our tale is about to begin, but there’s still time for me to introduce you to our players. Meet Barbara (@barbology) and Laurence (@about2bhitched), a lovely couple. If you make friends with them, perhaps they’ll invite you to there nuptials. Yes, they’re engaged and the wedding is this Friday at...
What was that just moments ago on Twitter? Did one of the characters in Crushing It just respond to an @? @youngneal's feed has has a little activity over the last couple of days. Tonight, Ink Canada tweeted at him: It wasn't long before Neal responded. If you want to follow Crushing...
Contentmanager.net
MM MerchandisingMedia launches SevenBrandVentures with CONTENS
MM MerchandisingMedia, the licensing, music, and commerce company of ProSiebenSat.1, has launched its investment initiative "SevenBrandVentures" with the content management systems (CMS) of CONTENS......
Autonomy Interwoven enables Marketers to deliver the most relevant End-to-End Search Experience
Advanced Search Marketing Module Radically Improves SEO and Onsite Search Results to Help Businesses Maximize Growth and Profits Autonomy Corporation plc - Every online consumer has a specific set of......
Ferrostaal chooses the "btexx MOSS Integrator" for the integration of SharePoint in the SAP Portal
Ferrostaal is a globally active supplier of industrial services. 4,400 employees turn their customers' ideas into reality......
Pixelpark AG and Emakina Group announce the signing of a commercial partnership
Pixelpark AG and Emakina Group are pleased to announce the signing of a commercial partnership. This agreement will enable both companies to better service their growing client on the European and int......
Magnolia CMS 4.2 Focuses on Integration and Interoperability
Open Source Content Management System Adds Hierarchical Data Store and Simplifies Integration of External Data Sources Magnolia has released version 4.2 of its Open Source content management system (......
Successful presentation of onion.net by GETIT during SharePoint conference
On December, the 2nd more than 150 visitors of the "iX-Day rund um SharePoint" took the opportunity to get updated on the latest trends from the Microsoft SharePoint universe......
DPCI blogs
How to Create Dynamic InCopy Article Templates Inside of K4
If you need to create templates that look like the actual pages that the articles will eventually end up on, this is the article for you Creating professional InDesign templates is a task that requires great thought and deep insight into the ways that Styles, Master Pages, and Libraries can...
Why don't we teach project management to school kids?
Over my twenty plus year professional career I've spent thousands of hours performing project management duties, teaching others the discipline of project management, or studying, reading and writing about project management to become a better practitioner. In some ways I have innate characteristics that are well suited for the profession...
A Crisis of Identity in the Digital Age
Hi, my name is Craig, and I create content. Between gabbing about industry trends, waxing political, songwriting and recording music, not to mention posting sporadic updates to my status on myriad social networking sites, I am out and about on the WWW. Not as much as some, but of late,...
Just read a blog posted by Dana Blankenhorn on the ZDNet site entitled Open source may be a venture capital dry hole. In the blog, Dana references Dave Rosenberg's blog on open-source acquisitions. That blog, Dave ponders what the hold up is for VC money into the open-source software (OSS)...
Review of article by Bruce Jensen on Folio Magazine's website
Just finished reading a 'trends' article that Bruce Jensen wrote for Folio Magazine. The article is entitled Four Magazine Tech Trends for 2010 and Beyond. I think there's a few other things that publishers should be concerning themselves with in 2010. The first is Semantics -- continuing to enrich their...
Review of Bryan Ruby's Blog post re: Drupal Vs. Joomla!
Here is a great review by Bryan Ruby of CMS Report of Alledia's refreshed comparison of Drupal vs. Joomla!. As President of a company that has implemented both Joomla! and Drupal, our team has definitely been leaning heavily toward Drupal. One of our team members, Conor McNamara, blogged about our...
Another DAM blog
Why do I need unique logins per DAM user?
With Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, or any system containing intellectual property within an organization, unique logins (username and password) for every individual user with access is common. Unique logins should not be limited to people with a specific level of access, a particular role nor a certain level of...
Do you have unique logins per DAM user?
If you administer a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, please vote on this quick, anonymous poll about whether your DAM has a unique login for each DAM user...
What is the difference between DAM mentoring and consulting?
During late 2009, I started DAM mentoring program. I had a flurry of emails asking about it and joining the free program daily. After having the first day of mentoring, I wanted to clarify what DAM mentoring is and what DAM mentoring is not....
What does DAM have to do with change management?
While I could blog about change management on the asset level, I will reserve that for a future blog post. I want to take a more global perspective of the change management involved with the implementation and operation of a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution....within an organization. Just like many projects...
What higher education courses are available about DAM?
Since my last post about DAM career planning, a whole host of higher education courses popped up on my radar. The courses found, researched and listed are located in the US, UK and even China. There were plenty of higher education courses offered which mention DAM within their syllabus,...
Webinars are a form of web conferencing used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet. Every month, there are plenty of webinars offered in a variety of topics including Digital Asset Management (DAM). Often, webinars are offered free of charge in order to inform people who join to...
Content Management System (CMS) Reviews, News and Articles
KonaKart and dotCMS Join Forces to Create CMS-Driven e-Commerce
Two java-based software companies, KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have joined forces to meet the challenging and growing demand of CMS-driven e-commerce. Starting this past summer, both organizations worked closely together to design and implement the proper architecture and development of an integrated tool-set, with workflows and templates,...
A Collection of WordPress theme frameworks
Theme frameworks have always been around but lately they have begun to gain in popularity as more people discover the flexibility that they bring to the table. There is no doubt that there are more than enough themes available for WordPress to suit a number of needs but frameworks provide...
Microsoft opens doors to cloud computing market with release of Windows Azure
Microsoft has entered the cloud computing market with Windows Azure and SQL Azure. They officially opened the door on February 1st, 2010. Here is a brief explanation of the offering: The Windows Azure platform offers a flexible, familiar environment for developers to create cloud applications and services. With Windows Azure, you can...
Vivvo release patch for 4.1.6 to boost optimization
Vivvo have released a new patch for their publishing CMS that claims to provide "few nice optimization improvements, including faster template rendering and addressed couple of minor bugs. Also, this patch is important to anyone using PHP 5.3 on server, for it solves compatibility issues with latest PHP...
Nuxeo Releases First CMIS-Enabled Digital Asset Management Application
Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, announced today the general availability of its open source Digital Asset Management offering Nuxeo DAM. Nuxeo DAM is the latest application based on the Nuxeo open source ECM platform, Nuxeo EP. Nuxeo DAM addresses the complex and resource-intensive demands of managing the...
Wolf CMS 0.6.0 Final now available
Wolf CMS 0.6.0 final has been released to the public. This new version of the open source content management system offers a number of changes. Changes with this release include: Completely revamped the install sequence. A page preview status was added users to preview the page before publishing. HTTPS support was added for accessing...
BizTechTalk
Video Game Tries Tiered Crowdfunding Model | Techdirt tags: innovation, business_models, business_model_innovation, video_games, distribution, participation, crowdfunding, techdirt The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There) | Techdirt tags: innovation, business_models, business_model_innovation, music, distribution, participation, techdirt Posted......
Cultural change is free - John Seddon Free-flowing talk from John Seddon - talking about systems thinking and why many approaches to "managing change" is focused on processes instead of outcomes. Pokes a ton of holes in many areas of......
Seek Omega: The 2010 Enterprise 2.0 All-Star Blogger Roster Whew, looks like being one of the first analysts (about 7 years ago), to be covering the then un-named Enterprise 2.0 is coming to fruition. Proud to be ranked in the......
21st Century Organization: From Crowdsourcing to Collective Intelligence at Work: Organizations are the Key I'd been contacted by Jenny Ambrozek a month or so ago, asking if I had content to contribute to an upcoming Collective Intelligence presentation she was......
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com It's not (just) because he's another Dan - in my opinion, he does a fantastic amount of research, and distills it into nicely consumable bits for "the rest......
Project Shrink Blog
Tags: Sociology In A Virtual World
This a very early draft of the introduction to Tags: Living In A Virtual World. I use this blog as a notebook for drafts, so you can provide me with feedback in an early stage. Comments are, as always, appreciated. People can catalog almost everything on the Internet. You can...
I started this year explaining why I like the word “awesome”. “I like to use the word “awesome” instead of “felicitous” as I like to appeal more to people who like passionate words over expensive sounding ones.” Couple of days later, I tell you “Although writing in a style that sounds authoritative...
This Is Not A Story About Social Media.
This is not a story about social media. This is a story about verification. When I tell you that social media has a purpose for Project Managers, you basically have to trust me on this. I try to make a compelling case. I provide you argumentation that makes the case...
Using Information From The Reputation Space In The Project Space
We all have Googled someone. Put his name into the Google search box and hit enter. Just before a meeting. After we have received a mail. See what information we can find about this person. We can use this information to build up a mental image of this person. Build up context....
When The Living Room Becomes A Stadium
You act differently in the comfort of your living room than standing on the field in a stadium with a microphone in your hand. Conversations in an intimate space are different from those in a public space. Image by Joe Shlabotnik. When Facebook changed its default settings from private to public,...
WBS Coach: Everything You Need To Know About The Work Breakdown Structure
I don’t do this often. It has been a long time since I endorsed a product. Just want to let you know that this is highly exceptional. But my good friend and fellow blogger/podcaster Josh Nankivel has created the fabulous WBS Coach training course (affiliate link). This multimedia training...
Persuasive Content
What’s the big deal about Coke?
It was recently reported in New Media Age, picked up by the Hubspot blog that Coca-Cola were moving their campaign sites from “traditional” websites to social media platforms and they are not alone, Pepsi recently created a stir as they announced a move from big budget Super Bowl ads to...
Joining the Trend for WCM Trends
I’m going to kick off 2010 with a blog post about Web Content Management, enough for now of my wittering on about my place in the social web or even web engagement. Content is still king and as I catch up with three weeks or so of my RSS reader, it...
Christmas.. I mean Holiday Blog Post
I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don’t normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest – cheesy – but, if you bear with me, I think I can do it. So, web content management, persuasive...
Tweetdeck Springs to Life at Gilbane Boston
Last week I attended the Gilbane Conference in Boston and have finally found a few minutes to blog about it, we exhibited and I was invited to speak in a couple of sessions and as I’d been contributing to the ‘back channel’ through Twitter (#gilbaneboston) I thought I’d expand on...
As part of preparation for a presentation he gave yesterday at Jboye ‘09 - a few days ago Jon Marks set a challenge to his Twitter community; to give him examples of where Web Content Management fails. I admit I am not at the JBoye event, so I have missed...
I Predict A (CMS) Riot: 1 hour, 6 People, 1 Wave, 1 Post
Today we embarked on an interesting social media challenge, a few folks that I’ve started to hang out with virtually (and more recently in the pub) agreed to meet at a designated time in a Google Wave and set about writing a blog post – in an hour. There was...
Digital Landfill
Another 8 Things That Make SharePoint 2010 a True ECM System
Boyd Collins is a senior consultant with the Enterprise Content Management practice for SAIC. He has over 15 years of Web development experience for a wide variety of corporations, including super major oil and gas companies, Continental Airlines, and Reliant Energy, and many others. Currently, he is implementing a company-wide...
Information governance demonstrates continued merger of unstructured/data worlds
The problem of managing the structured/unstructured convergence will become increasing complex as the volume of information grows. Think about this... The average car will have 100 million lines of code by 2011. The Airbus A380 contains over 1 billion lines of code. A recent study from the IBM Institute for...
30% use Twitter for BUSINESS networking at least once per day...
A new AIIM survey of social media activists in the industry reveals 1 expected and 2 unexpected findings. First the expected one. In terms of social networking for business purposes, LinkedIn is the platform of choice at the moment. 30.2% of those from organizations that use information management technologies use...
8 Ways to Kill Your ECM Project
I am pleased to welcome my first mystery 8 things blogger! This blogger is from an end user organization and would prefer to remain anonymous. Which is cool. It's also a shame because this is a good and honest article -- would love more like this from end users! (I...
LinkedIn COULD be the ultimate business social networking platform winner. COULD be.
Many thanks to our readers participating in my business utilization of social networking survey. A total of 336 social media "activists" participated in just 2 business days. To recap, the survey was targeted at current LinkedIn, Facebook, and InformationZen participants, as well as readers of this blog. The intent was...
Monday deadline for survey participation on business/organization use of social media
We'll close off our survey of social media activists the end of the day MONDAY and publish the results later in the week. If you would like to chime in, it's not too late. Here's the link -- http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22A6JF5SS7W. We've had 300+ participants so far. To give a little advance...
Content Here
The Myth of the Occasional CMS User
Not long ago, a university hired me to evaluate their CMS implementation. They were having doubts about their CMS selection because the implemented system was not living up to the lofty promises that got them the budget for the project. It turned out that they did make a...
In-Context and Power User Interfaces: One for the Sale, the Other for the Content Manager
A dirty little secret in the CMS industry is that, while in-context editing is often what sells a CMS, the “power user” interface is usually what winds up getting used after implementation. This phenomenon obviously creates problems in the selection process because, when the sales demo focus on an...
Nica Lorbor, from Chapter Three, has a great post on their highly optimized Drupal design process. In the article, Nica shows how they start from a Drupal template that has roughly 25 common named elements (some native Drupal, some not) that can be styled according client specifications. A...
CMS Architecture: Managing Presentation Templates
Another geeky post… In my last post, I described the relative merits of managing configuration in a repository vs. in the file system but excluded presentation templates even though how they are managed is just as interesting. Like configuration, presentation templates can be managed in the file system or in...
CMS Architecture: Managing Content Type Configurations
Warning: this post is highly technical. Non-programmers, please avert your eyes. Deane Barker (from Blend Interactive) and I have a running conversation about CMS architectures. One of the recurring topics is how content models and other configuration is managed. There are two high-level approaches: inside the repository and...
SEO Unfriendly Pithy Titles Originally uploaded by sggottlieb Normally I don’t worry too much about search engine optimization when I write blog posts. My writing is as much for organizing my own thoughts as it is to drive site traffic. My philosophy on search engine optimization is to produce good...
