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A few days ago I read Deane Barker’s excellent post Editors Live in the Holes (go ahead and read the post and then come back) and I have been thinking about it ever since. I have had the same experience several times and it is a good reminder for developers to pay special attention [...] Related posts:

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I JUST heard about Adobe’s acquisition of Day Software and have to admit my first reaction was total disappointment. I always admired Day’s commitment to architecture and standards. Day is one of the few upper upper tier web content management companies to stay focused on the web — not just as a place [...] Related posts:

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After over 10 years of working in content management, I have come to realize that there is only one way to learn the value of managing structured information: the hard way — and that way is only 50% effective. People can intellectually accept concepts like content re-use and content/layout separation, but in the heat [...] Related posts:

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One of the most common points of friction between project managers and developers is planning work. Most programmers hate creating work breakdown structures (WBS). You can’t blame them, accurately predicting steps and effort required to build undesigned software is impossible. Yes, you heard that right. Software development planning is impossible — [...] Related posts:

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Roberto Galoppini has an interesting case study on selecting an open source project management tool. In it, he describes his SOS Open Source methodology for filtering open source projects by looking at a number of factors organized into three categories: sustainability, industrial strength, and project strategy. The case study doesn’t go into much [...] Related posts:

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One of my newspaper clients recently added the Facebook “Like” button to their site and saw large increases in traffic. I was thinking of doing the same thing for Content Here but then I started to wonder “would I Like Content Here?” Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE writing this blog and [...] Related posts:

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A customer struts into a car dealership, slams a 200 page requirements document down onto a salesman’s desk, and triumphantly declares “I know exactly what kind of car I want to buy.” The startled salesman opens the document to a random section and starts to flip through a few pages that describe a lug [...] Related posts:

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Most new site CMS implementations (as opposed to site migrations from one CMS to another) start off with a set of HTML mockups. This can be a convenient starting place because, in addition to showing how the pages should look and informing the content model, having the HTML gives a good head start to [...] Related posts:

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Whenever Amazon announces news about it’s Kindle product, like with the recent Kindle price drop, I find myself referring to my reasons for not buying a Kindle. So far they are working out pretty well for me. The strongest argument has been the inability to share (first on the list). When I [...] Related posts:

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Ever since I got into web content management, I have advised my clients to avoid the word “user.” It’s a useless word because you are never quite sure if someone is talking about a user of the CMS, or a user of the website. For this reason, I get my clients to adopt [...] Related posts:

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