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  • Is Word Press a CMS?

    blog.nospam@nospam.urbancherry.net (chris)
     
    Tony Byrne at CMS Watch recently wrote a short piece on using WordPress as a CMS , which got me thinking about the my experience in the world of enterprise class CMS systems. I must admit, I have always been a bit of a snob when it comes to open source...

  • SDL Tridion MVP Awards

    blog.nospam@nospam.urbancherry.net (chris)
     
    So after writing my first blog to discuss the need for an SDL Tridion 2009 Development Environment , The SDL Web Content Management Solutions Division seem to have come up with an answer. Today they announced their ten Most Valuable Professionals in the...

  • Unique binary filenames for SDL Tridion Multimedia Components

    blog.nospam@nospam.urbancherry.net (chris)
     
    The SDL Tridion CMS uses a special kind of object called a Multimedia Component to store binary files managed by a CMS use. Typical uses for these MM Components are images, office documents, pdfs etc. In older additions of SDL Tridion, these were rendered...

  • The Fifth 'SDL Tridion' Environment

    blog.nospam@nospam.urbancherry.net (chris)
     
    As a consultant in the CMS industry for nearly 10 years, I work on and install software on my customers’ infrastructure in Development, Test, Acceptance or Production (DTAP) environments. However, as an integrator/developer, I (like most developers) like...

  • Mind Programming, or How I Learned To Stop Fearing The Unknown and Get on…

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    Collecting quotes from the web and books that I think are profound or funny is a hobby of mine. A simple sequence of words can change the way a person thinks. I find this fascinating and I’m not alone. Neal Stephenson explores the idea of a virus...

  • Let’s take a shortcut

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    I’ve been working with a lot of new developers lately and have noticed that there’s a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio that I never bothered to learn. Now I always stick with the default configuration unless it’s absurd or something I...

  • Best Hack

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    I was just thinking what my best hack has been and I think it’s the fix for the following scenario. I was refactoring the RSinteract source code to get rid of some duplicated classes that had over the course of a, shall we say, rigourous development...

  • Bad Project Top Trumps

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    I’ve been hearing about a lot of bad and late projects lately. So I’ve come up with a game you can play with your friends to remind you how not to do things! Bad project top trumps. [Disclaimer: This is just a bit of fun, figures are completely arbitrary...

  • Hacking My Life

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    I’ve been in a bit of a slump recently. Life is good, but my personal development has been suffering due to my active social life and burgeoning fitness addiction (more on that later). I always feel a bit down when I’m not running at full revs on my personal...

  • TED Talk: The Sixth Sense

    Rob Stevenson-Leggett
     
    This absolutely blew my mind, the most advanced symbiois between human and technology I have ever seen. The singularity is upon us. Read the full text.