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How to Choose a CMS

So how do you currently select a CMS for a project. And I’m asking this more of the people who will be using the CMS to manage their website rather than those that will be doing the development work. Far too often people assess a CMS platform with giant spreadsheets listing features the CMS should have and score each candidate on each feature. The problem with this approach is that any good CMS...

Responsible Blogging Rules

When I started this blog many moons ago I mentioned a few pet peeves about blogs I had in my introductory post. Also in that post I mentioned I had a few guidelines for myself to follow to help prevent me from committing some of those mistakes myself. However at the time I never published what those guidelines were. This was mainly because I had never written a blog before and I didn’t know how...

Realisation About File Formats

I’m currently working on a new shared source module that has required me to import content from published files. Now, I could try and talk around and conceal what it is I’m doing but it only really makes sense if you know exactly what it is I’m doing. And what the hell, let’s commit myself and the release of this new module to the greater Sitecore community. The new module I’m working on is an...

Dogfooding your CMS

Recently Janus Boye posted a quick test of leading CMS vendor sites and how they faired using a mobile browser to view the site. I must say I was quite proud reading this list. Most of the vendors failed the test, but two out of the three CMSes that passed were the CMSes I use almost every day; Sitecore and WordPress. Now, the author didn't detail what the test constituted, but from what I read...

Professionalism

There are a lot of qualities that constitute a professional. Take this take-away coffee that I just ordered. This is a take away coffee, served in a paper cup with one of those plastic lids. Even though the consumer can't see the top of the coffee due to the lid, the barista still went to the effort of pouring some latte art on it. This is one of those qualities that constitute a professional....

Team Development with Sitecore the Easy way

Most of the Sitecore implementations I'm involved in have me working in a team environment. In fact, this is pretty normal for any IT project. Although a team environment has many benefits, there are also some complexities that need to be addressed in terms of keeping the development environment in sync. There are two things that need to be synchronised across all the development environments;...

2008, the year that was

So. 2008. What a year! We've seen a lot of activity from Sitecore this year. We had the Beta program for the new Sitecore codenamed Crestone which was later released as Sitecore 6. This version of Sitecore is the most polished to date (as you would expect). The Sitecore product just keeps getting better and I keep having fun using it.

ASP.NET driving force behind .NET

Hmm. So what's this new category here? Observation / Opinion? Well, to distinguish the regular tech posts from my not-so-tech thoughts and discussions, I've created a new category on this blog. If you're only interested in the purely tech stuff, then you can ignore anything tagged in this category. Anyway, I just finished listening to dot net rocks episode 347 with John Lam, the guy behind...