Friday, October 24th, 2008
In a couple of earlier posts I mentioned how I thought Drupal could be used as an enterprise-level CMS, at least if you were willing to change modify your definition of 'enterprise-level' slightly.
When thinking about deploying any CMS across a large organisation or large company, one of the things you're ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In my last blog I mentioned how Drupal really does seem to offer more than just the ability to get a simple site up and running quickly.
Framework
When you look at Drupal more closely you realise one key thing: it's not really a CMS, it's a framework. Granted, nothing quite like Symfony in terms of ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I've been looking a lot recently at Drupal not just as an open source CMS, but as a viable enterprise level CMS. Despite my earlier misgivings I think Drupal has a lot going for it, and it may be that over the next couple of years it will become a ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
CushyCMS is a very nice little 'CMS' tool/service that lets you edit content on your pages easily and simply. It's by a small Australian startup (another Australian web company?!) called Stateless Systems.
To call it a CMS is perhaps a bit much. It's basically a clever and lovely way for you ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Acquia is a company set up by Dries Buytaert, the guy who developed drupal, in an apparent attempt to get drupal taken more seriously by companies and institutions. The idea seems to be that Acquia (carrying on the water theme: druppel means 'drop' in Flemish) will provide commercial level support for ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
After fun and a few frustrations sorting out designs in MySource Matrix in my last post (probably mostly caused by me not knowing what I was doing, and with limited time to sort things out), I've been looking at the overall user interface for editors.
The interface is possibly a tad intimidating ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I've been playing around with mysource matrix on my laptop recently, as an early development stage to our pilot while we're waiting for the server hardware to be set up.
One of the first things I've been looking at has been setting up designs, and I have to admit it's been ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
I've recently been looking more closely at MySource Matrix, an open source PHP-based CMS. It's very important to realise that 'open source' is not necessarily what you might think in the real world of running an enterprise CMS.
Squiz
So what about the details of using MySource Matrix in anger? First off, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I've been looking recently at an open source enterprise CMS called MySource Matrix. It's written in PHP5, and unusually for open source CMS actually seems to be able to cope well at enterprise level.
It's built from the ground up on an asset basis. Everything is an asset: users, content, permissions, ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
At the moment at Kent we're considering our options for CMS. We've been looking at enterprise CMS, and had a few fairly impressive demos of their capabilities.
But at the end of one demo, someone asked the sales guy why we should pay almost double the price for a licence than ...
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