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Plone 4 Features Announced

seth — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:32:02 PDT

I was catching up on my blog reading and noticed that the Plone community has announced what features will be in Plone 4. Version 4 will incorporate 40 “PLIPs” (”Plone Improvement Proposal:” the Plone project’s issue/enhancement tracking system). You can see the list of enhancements and bug fixes here. The release is [...] Related posts:

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Apache Software License, Hippo, and BlueNog

seth — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:18:00 PDT

When I first got interested in open source software there was a lot of talk about the restrictions and liberties of various licenses and the risk that free-riders posed to the system. I have to admit that I never found these topics very interesting and usually referred the conversation to my colleague Stephen Walli [...] Related posts:

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Code moves forward. Content moves backward.

seth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:54:10 PDT

One of the primary functions of a web content management system is separating content from layout. Authors create semi-structured content in a display-neutral format and then the presentation templates transform that content to web pages for regular browsers, mobile browsers, RSS feeds, email, and print. As most readers of this blog know, this [...] Related posts:

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PDF or HTML?

seth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:04:14 PDT

Alex Manchester, from Step Two Designs has a very useful article on when to publish Intranet content in PDF format rather than HTML. I agree with Alex’s point that PDF is suboptimal for most content because of several limitations (most of them around the additional overhead in editing and reading the document) but still [...] Related posts:

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Is this CMS worth the money?

seth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:43:13 PDT

During any CMS selection, it is fairly common to look at software products that span a wide range of prices — everywhere from free to several hundred of thousand dollars in up front licensing. Buyers invariably get confused as they consider vastly different pricing models and try to put those numbers in context of [...] Related posts:

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Great presentation on content modeling

seth — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:56:15 PDT

Deane Barker, over at Gadgetopia, has posted slides from his presentation “Just put that in the zip code field”. He gave the talk at the Web Content 2009 conference in Chicago. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the conference and missed seeing Deane present. However, knowing that I am as [...] Related posts:

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Pages and Objects

seth — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:46:54 PDT

Back in prehistoric times, I was implementing a custom CMS for a very large computer manufacturer. The data model drew a distinction between “pages” and “objects” and I remember having a difficult time understanding (and then, later, explaining) the difference. At a high level, objects were items of content (like a “product”) and [...] Related posts:

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Study finds coding to be more effective for procrastinating than blogging

seth — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:57:25 PDT

It was great to catch up with so many friends at the Gilbane conference in San Francisco this week. I spent literally two hours saying goodbye on my way out the door. One question that I found myself frequently answering was the reason for my recent blogging lapse. The short answer is [...] Related posts:

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Gilbane slides posted

seth — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:04:05 PDT

Yesterday morning I presented a three hour workshop on selecting a web content management system at the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco. I was told to expect a small audience but the room filled up quite nicely. I ran out of hand-outs but you can download a copy here. Here my slides. Selection [...] Related posts:

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What your intranet needs is a publisher!

seth — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:43:37 PDT

J. Jonah Jameson Originally uploaded by OntologicalDoubt While I work with companies from many different industries, most of my clients media and publishing companies. I like working with publishers for many reasons — not the least of which is the fact that this is an industry in transition and it is exciting to see my clients [...] Related posts:

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