Simple notions from a developer
Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. It’s a pretty powerful system. What I ended up with is creating a “Widget” content directory, […]
So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these. The problem […]
So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, […]
Well, everything was going very well with my Drupal installation. I've got TinyMCE working as my WYSIWYG editor, and added a bunch of other modules to do this, that, and the other. And all was well, I had encoutered a module or two that didn't work correctly and it was simple enough to remove them […]
A couple of days ago I stumbled across the reporting on the announcement of the White House switching over to an OpenSource content management system, Drupal. I've hosted or setup a number of sites over the years using various CMS platforms, for example: PHPNuke, PHPNuke Evolution, Xoops, Joomla, WordPress. All of which are good depending […]
First let me say, if you're looking for some tutorials or samples related to Sharepoint, this post isn't for you 😉 but feel free to read on. At my new employer's, I have to do a fair amount of Sharepoint development. Well that phrase right there is just ridiculously large in scope. Allow me to […]
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