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Developing a better CMS by Drew Wilson
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Drew Wilson's been working on his Content Management Tool Firerift — he's even built what might be the world’s first computer animated CMS commercial for it — and in the process has learned some things about developing a better CMS.
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The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS by Paul Boag
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Paul Boag, author of 'the website owners manual' explains the five hidden costs of content management systems.
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Working with web developers in India: why, whom, and how by Ryan Norbauer
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Ryan Norbauer has been there, done that and taken copious notes — where the "there" is his consulting firm, the "that" Indian outsourcing and the "notes" are contained in this refreshing article on the realities of using outsourced talent.
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Building and managing virtual teams by Chris Nagele
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Chris Nagele's run Wildbit, creators of hosted Subversion app Beanstalk, for 8 years virtually. He lives in Philadelphia and his team is all over the world. So, he knows a few things about virtual teams and shares them in this article.
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Same DOM errors, different browser interpretations by Hallvord R. M. Steen
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Have you ever looked at how the different browsers handle the same DOM errors? As this article from Opera JS guru Hallvord R. M. Steen points out, their different interpretations can be surprising.
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The parties at FOWA are going to be bigger and better than ever. We are so pleased to have the support of Media Temple , official party sponsors of FOWA. They will be kicking things off on 9th Oct at Fox, and these guys know how to throw a party! Then the FOWA wrap party/Digg meetup follows Diggnation on the last day. Join the Digg gang, our fabulous speakers and, of course, the Carsonites at Fox to finish FOWA with a bang!
Simon Mackie August 20, 2008
MobileCrunch have posted a video walk-through of the new Android emulator.
Simon Mackie August 20, 2008
Two one-day Carson Workshops coming up in the UK: How to build Django web apps, presented by none other than Jeff Croft, in London on September 8th, and Learn how to build Symfony apps, presented by Carsonified's own awesome lead developer, Elliott Kember, in Bath on September 18th.
Simon Mackie August 19, 2008
Check out some photos of Ryan's head shave on flickr - the live video and impromptu Q & A session went really well. Special thanks go to the totally awesome Matt Mullenweg who donated £1000. The total raised so far stands at £1,462, but it's not too late to donate - all proceeds go to accessibility charity, AbilityNet.
Simon Mackie August 18, 2008
Flex Camp London is a free community-run event for anyone interested in Flex. It will be held on August 28.
Simon Mackie August 18, 2008
Ryan Carson will be shaving his head for charity live on the ustream.tv today to raise money for AbilityNet, a charity that helps disabled adults and children to use the Web. Donate here.
Simon Mackie August 14, 2008
From today, Twitter will no longer deliver outbound tweets from its UK number. They've figured out that the cost per user is a crazy $1000/year (and that's with the service capped at 250 SMS per week). This change does not affect Twitter SMS users in the US, Canada and India.
Simon Mackie August 14, 2008
Archaeologist from Dipity is a neat visualization tool that lets you plot a timeline of Digg posts for any keyword. For example, here's Vitamin articles that have featured on Digg from the past couple of years
Simon Mackie August 14, 2008
