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The most irksome thing about developing with most Web CMS systems is the rigidity associated with layouts. The modern system is characterized by ten minute import and deployment lifecycles, followed by 100 hours of tweaking stylesheets to get everything looking just-so.
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Python How is Python, the object oriented scripting language known for imposing indentation on developers, the "Programming Language of the Year for 2007"?
First of all, an explanation of where this crown came from and what it stands for.
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Forrester has released a list of 10 reasons why Apple's iPhone is no friend to IT.
You can probably think of a few already: the prohibitive cost, the first-gen factor, and fidelity to AT&T.
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In the world of Java servlet engines, there are but a few major players. Everybody is familiar with the 800 lb gorillas -- BEA’s WebLogic and IBM’s Websphere.
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For years the war for the enterprise has raged between Microsoft and Java with the heaviest battles occurring since the inception of .Net. However, recent research indicated that .Net is now coming out on the winning team.
This news is from Info-Tech Research Group - an IT research and advisory firm.
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Refresh Software has just released an updated version of its proprietary component content management offering.
Woven together by DITA, XML and web publishing experts, SR2 7.1 utilizes an SOA-based J2EE content repository. It installs directly into the IT back-end and sports a simple interface for front-end users.
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Global CMS purveyor Day has just joined IBM's ECM ValueNet partner Program.
This means IBM FileNet P8 users now have access to Day’s Communiqué Web Content Management (CQ WCM) and Communiqué Digital Asset Management (CQ DAM) applications -- a dream package for those seeking a one-stop fix for digital
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In an effort we've decided to dub the free code revolution (IBM joined recently), Sun Microsystems has announced it will be licensing a handful of the key components of Java ME and Java SE under the open source GPL (general public license).
Java ME and Java SE are its mobile and desktop platforms, respectively.
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Struts...Tapestry...Seam, these are all fully featured, open source and very active Java Web app frameworks. And all were available to the Alfresco Enterprise CMS architects when they played deciders for their recent 2.1 release.
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Our global CMS and content infrastructure amigos at Day Software have announced JSR 283, v2.0 of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, to the Java Community Process (JCP).
JSR 283 picks up where JSR 170 left off by enabling large enterprises to manage digital content on a global level.
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It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.The Roller Weblogger project began with a blog post by primary developer Dave Johnson on April 11, 2002 and gained momentum with
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In case you haven't heard, JRuby is an all-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. And here at the Ruby-fest in San Jose Nick Sieger of the JRuby core team educates us on the current apple of his eye: JRuby: Ruby on the JVM. He starts by asking, "What
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While our host waxes poetic about dinosaurs, I'm going to take an opportunity to update you on all the good that's gone down this morning.
Sun Microsystems senior staff engineer Tor Norbye kicked us off this morning with Ruby Tooling: State of the Art. For those expecting the him
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Swiss content management and content infrastructure software provider Day Software has announced its latest Java Content Repository (JCR) connector. This time the company has delivered wiring that enables standard JCR access to the IBM/FileNet's P8 Content Manager enterprise content repository.
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