Matthew Bull

web development

acquia

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 ...

The Squiz Licence

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, ...

MySource Matrix and Squiz

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, ...