Category Archives: CMS

Beautiful projects deserve beautiful sites

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/8/2010
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The old cliche is true, and it applies to the Web sites of FLOSS projects as surely as it does a first date or a job interview. Unfortunately, all too many FLOSS Web sites make a very, very poor first impression. Not surprising, since [...]
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Alfresco Decides Less is More: Switching to LGPL

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/1/2010
Alfresco is switching licenses, again. This time the company is switching the license for its enterprise content management system to the GNU LGPL, away from the GNU GPL. Alfresco's switch is possible because the company requires a contributor agreement to accept code into its repository. The agreement requires that contributors give Alfresco the ability to [...]
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Integrating WordPress and Twitter

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/18/2010
Sometimes you just can't say it in 140 characters. And sometimes, a blog post is just plain overkill. Luckily you can manage your blog and microblog with one interface, at least as long as you're using WordPress and Twitter Tools. The Twitter Tools plugin is written by Alex King and allows you to cross-post from your [...]
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Get Things Done with WordPress

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/23/2009
Want to get a jump on team productivity in 2010? Check out the GTD theme for WordPress from Templatic. Unlike most WordPress themes, the Templatic theme is designed for private collaboration rather than blogging for all the world to see. The GTD theme adds a couple of features to WordPress to make collaboration easier. Instead of [...]
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Web Winners and Losers in 2009

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/18/2009
Break out the Champagne and get ready to celebrate the winners of the Web in 2009, and give a few shots to the losers. Looking back on 2009 on the Web, we saw some tectonic shifts in the market and major developments that are going to make 2010 very interesting indeed. Grab your tickets and [...]
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/usr/bin/links -date="Thursday, November 26"

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/26/2009
Daily dose of interesting links around the Web on technology and media. Wiki tools are not all the same — All-too-brief article on differences between wikis. Have used MediaWiki extensively, and TWiki back in the day, but haven't had much of a chance to dive into the others.   Most Influential Websites in the World — Wikipedia, the [...]
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Drupal or Django (and WordPress)?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/19/2009
Have been meaning to link to this for a while. Scot Hacker looks at Drupal vs. Django and why he prefers Django to Drupal. (With a side of WordPress.) Drupal represents a middle ground between framework and CMS that we've chosen not to take. Drupal is far more capable than a CMS like WordPress, [...]
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