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CMS Weekly Episode 42

CMSW2009-11-20

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• Jooma Survey
  
• Twitter Scraps Suggested Users
  
• WordPress and Joomla Combination
  

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Welcome to Steve Pignataro

by Andy McCaskey

Direct from his office in Battle Creek, MI we are joined this week by Steve Pignataro of corePHP, Inc. Steve’s company is approaching ten years in the business of custom content management system, and was a major supporter of the CMSExpo2008 in Denver and the CMSExpo 2009 Evanston, IL. Steve covers a range of Joom related comments as we address stories in the news about Cloud Computing, the emerging strength of the Joomla – WordPress combination, and other topics.

Thanks to Steve for joining us !

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CMS Weekly Episode 41

CMSW2009-11-19

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• Drupal 7
  
• Cloud Hosting for Drupal
  
• Open Source Community
  

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Welcome to Greg Knaddison

by Andy McCaskey

Direct from a security conference in Washington DC, we are joined this week by Greg Knaddison, of Growing Venture Solutions in Denver. Greg was a major force behind DrupalCamp in Denver last summer, interviewed by Kara Karsten. Greg covers a range of Drupal related comments as we address stories in the news about Cloud Computing, the shift of Recovery.gov to Sharepoint (Away from Drupal), some of the rewards for participating in open source community efforts, and other topics.

Greg was kind enough to join us directly from the convention center- so there is a bit of noise on the audio, but some great content. Thanks to Greg for joining us !

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CMS Weekly Episode 39

CMSW2009-10-19

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• Step Releases in Joomla
• Cloud Hosting for Joomla
• Improving the Packt CMS Award Program

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CMS Weekly Episode 39

CMSW2009-10-19

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• Soapbox CMS
• WordPress as a CMS
• Drupal Open Atrium

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Time to Grow the Show

by Kara Karsten
The recent Blogworld and New Media Expo provided some great interaction and chance to look at the evolution of CMS Weekly. During the next few weeks, you will be seeing some changes in the web site and the show format that should provide some new and useful content.

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CMS Weekly Episode 38

CMSW2009-10-12

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• EC2 Hammered in DDOS Attack
• Alfresco Takes to the Cloud
• Meaning from DAM Statistics

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Scalability Rules – In Cloud or In Hardware

by Andrew McCaskey
The HP Tech Day had some deep dive content that kept a number of the invited guests busy – for example, Ben Rockwood http://www.cuddletech.com/blog wanted to dispense with the GUI’s, spend the day on the command line and with ample supplies of coffee get to the bottom of all this.

Since I’m not a professional IT admin, that had a little less appeal – although to be honest, I was able to follow the demos at the command line as well or better than the GUI based ones – I think simply because it was in smaller chunks.

What I did get from Richard Warham’s talk on Adaptive Infrastructure was a sense of how HP has implemented the scalability of resources for front end, middleware, and back end database processing and how a cleverly set up SuperDome system with multiple cells, processors and memory can flex with demand, order level, web traffic and database calls dynamically. Old school “more blades” thinking reminds me of Scotty on Star Trek, throwing in more crystals and hoping that it holds together through the attack. The new scalable resources mode seems a lot more elegant.

The other connection made for me was the similarity to Amazon’s EC2 cloud based service – exactly the same notion of allowing developers to have a variety of images or templates for highly tweaked configurations – to be called up at will – allowing production and dev sites to be resident on the same hardware.

The final wrap-up with the business case from John Pickett told about a customer that had 30 different OS variants/patch levels/versions deployed – each reduced into an image template that salvaged original investment in code – but allowed the savings in energy costs and maintainability.

Responsiveness, control and speed – the best of all three.

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Congrats @jeffotts01; wins Packt author of the year for Alfresco book
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21

The CMS and ECM World has a number of well recognized authors, from the publishing house Packt (pronounced Packed, as in packed with information.) The Author of the Year Award announced by Packt goes to Jeff Potts for his Alfresco Developer Guide.

The award was determined first by readers nominating their preferred candidates, with the final decision being made by a panel of judges. The final nominees were 6 books on such diverse topics as Drupal, Javascript and SOA.
Aaron Winborn for Drupal Multimedia;
Matt Butcher for Learning Drupal 6 Module Development;
Shea Fredrick, Colin Ramsay and Steve “Cutter” Blades jointly for Learning Ext JS;
Stoyan Stefanov for Object-Oriented JavaScript;
Vincenzo Caselli,
Binildas A. Christudas,
Malhar Barai jointly for Service Oriented Architecture with Java.

Packt is a print on demand publishing company based in Birmingham, UK. Founded in 2004 as an independent company, they focus on supporting and promoting Open Source. In 2008, Packt’s donations to Open Source Projects broke the $100,000 barrier. Next contest at packtpub – 2009 Open Source CMS Award. More details at http://www.packtpub.com/award.

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KnowledgeTree®Partners with Zend to Enhance Its Enterprise Grade PHP Application
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21

In a recent episode we introduced KnowledgeTree, an Enterprise CMS best known for its easy installation. Today we share news of a recently announced partnership between KnowledgeTree and Zend Technologies.

KnowledgeTree 3.7, available in Q4 2009, will be deployed on Zend Server, a widely used enterprise grade PHP server. In the CMS Report announcement, Zend Technologies is described as “the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications.”

Early tests show that KnowledgeTree runs 40 percent faster on Zend Server. In addition to speed and performance, Zend Server also delivers reliability.

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“Perfect storm” brewing within the workforce
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21

Social media expert Tod Maffin says companies are about to face a mass exodus of employees due to a kind of perfect storm brewing within two key generations of employees. Baby Boomers set to retire en masse, companies are going to have to find ways to replace them with younger employees,- “But that particular crop of employees – the ‘Facebook Generation’ – is as likely to walk out the back door as easily as they came in the front.”

Maffin says these twenty-something employees present an entirely new set of challenges for employers – and that companies need to take an entirely new approach to managing their needs and retaining their services. Two of the recommendations in the article:

Give Them Your Trust: Young people born between 1980 and 1990 were raised by Generation X parents who gave them unprecedented levels of trust. Misguided attempts at increasing productivity, like blocking Facebook and instant-messenger programs, scream “We don’t trust you!” to this group of workers (it’s like blocking telephone calls).

Focus on Team-Based Solutions: That’s the way they were taught all through school – it was all about group projects, not individual reports. Engage them in group projects and let them play an active role in that process.

Consider giving them a box of their own personalized business cards on day one.

Invest in Technology: Your technology must at least keep pace with what this generation uses at home.

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Prepare Your Site for Traffic Spikes with BrowserMob
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21

CMS Wire says it best: If It Crashes, They Can’t Come.

If your website is your company, then having it go down for any period of time can cripple you. Huge interest in your site can see the server(s) unable to cope with demand. A new company, Browsermob, does exactly that.

Others simulate HTTP traffic; we emulate user behavior, making AJAX load testing trivial# Simulate 2,000 VUs for only $150. See exactly how your users experience your site when stressed. Create a set of tests in BrowserMob’s Selenium IDE and get a MySQL report full of statistics such as response time, throughput and error rates. It even returns screenshots of errors. Control 2K+ real browsers; 25K+ virtual users.

Then there is the ongoing monitoring. It checks your site with real browsers in the cloud. It alerts you when your site experiences problems. It’s built for complex websites (ie: AJAX, Flash, etc) and is affordable: get started for as little as $1 per day. Try the free test at browsermob.com. Or jump right in and purchase a package starting at $150.

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