Tag Archives: CMS

CMS and Presentation Systems

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Karl

stdout.be talks about what Presentation Systems are and what their responsibilities could be in an environment where the CMS is no longer a single system, but an ecosystem in “The Post-CMS CMS”. It’s a great post, and reminds me of … Continue reading →

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A new CMS to watch?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Karl

Armstrong is a new open source CMS in development, based upon Django, and funded by the Knight Foundation. There is a recent piece about Armstrong posted at The Nieman Journalism Lab with a good thread questioning the need and the … Continue reading →

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ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Karl

You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab. Check out some sample reports: ProPublica: Gulf Oil Spill ProPublica: Tainted Drywall ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat Related: The Future of Context

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Easiest Movable Type Upgrade Yet

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Karl

Over the years I’ve used Userland Frontier, Userland Manila, Userland Radio, GreyMatter, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, Drupal, and have ran this blog using Movable Type for years. This upgrade was the smoothest yet, probably due to the lack of custom plugins … Continue reading →

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The Onion has migrated to Django from Drupal

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

reddit.com: “The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us”

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Using your Google Spreadsheet as your Twitter Client?

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Karl

Vivek Haldar explains the significance of Google Apps Script. Wow!

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Alfresco Links for February 7th, 2010

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Karl

Alfresco Webcast: What’s New in 3.2? Alfresco Webcast: WCM Roadmap Webinar – Versions 3.3 and 4.0 Key to Content: Alfresco WCM Roadmap (notes from the presentation) Philip Kedy at CapTech: Alfresco WCM or DM: What is the best choice for … Continue reading →

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Database related reads (and videos) for January 25, 2010

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Karl

Lambda the Ultimate: Why Normalization Failed to Become the Ultimate Guide for Database Designers? Generation 5: Putting Freebase in a Star Schema no:sql(east): video: Justin Sheehy is the CTO of Basho Technologies on Riak and more ShopTalk Blog: Death to … Continue reading →

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The case for killing ‘WCM’ (Web Content Management)?

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Karl

First, a disclaimer. The title refers to the term ‘WCM’, not the functionality implied by it. WCM (Web Content Management) as defined by Wikipedia is a system that “allows non-technical users to make changes to a website with little training. … Continue reading →

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Alfresco API: RESTful API Links

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Karl

Trying to find one reference that links to the entire Alfresco REST API? The following pages are all on the AlfrescoWiki, but its a bit hard to navigate. Note that the 3.1 REST API page does not include the items … Continue reading →

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