Sam’s random musings

To redo current project in Cake or more drastically use a current project to learn Ruby On Rails (which would include learning Ruby)…

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So my two readers have been complaining that I have closed down comments so tight that they can not tell me what a fliberty jibbit I am. So on the recommendations of one of them I am adding some spam controls to the default WordPress options and let the hammering begin…

Comments?

JoT #734, The Tech Commandments.:

I. Thou shalt backup!

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Read and live by these…

(Via Joy of Tech.)

SpamSieve is getting better…

Filtered Mail
8621 Good Messages
2290 Spam Messages (21%)
76 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy
41 False Positives
79 False Negatives (66%)
98.9% Correct

Daring Fireball: Rhymes With Ditty:

Rhymes With Ditty

Nail meet hammer, again Grubber lightens my day.

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Henri Bergius’ Blog: Why Web Designers Need a CMS:

Henri Bergius’latest post brings to light an interesting point made in this WebProNews story:

This is somewhat of a call out to all web design companies. If you cannot offer content management to your clients, you may be left in the dust within a few years. The more affordable content management becomes, the more in demand it will be. Without giving your prospects this crucial option, you may lose a great chunk of your potential clients to the next web design company that has a fully automated system that states: “all the consumer has to do is login and get started.”

So were Lance and I just talking about this or what.

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

I have always tried to steer clients to a cms based approach, mostly because it is easier to maintain that separation between content and design. Also it is my belief that the easier it is to change content the more often it might be changed, the web should be a dynamic changing thing, not just a static representation of business plans and marketing speak. Also it helps to protect the image that you craft from their influence

In most of the installs that I have done the CMS serves as the staging server and the ‘real’ site is static rendering of the cms, though there are instances where this is not really the right way to go (I think GSF should be too much of a living site for this to be a plan.) I think it is why I find Markdown, Textile and things like it so compelling, it lets the user think about the writing and lets me control the mark up and the styling.

I would worry though if the site is really image heavy then a cms approach may not work as well without spending a lot of $$, but there are some really compelling opensource CMS’s that a pulling heavily on the AJAX meme to really do some cool things (or at least showing some really potential.

the real advantage to a CMS based site is that it is really Agile and able the change quickly to meet new demands and designs

Joomla! - Main:

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

A first cursory look is good, but not great, kind of clunky feeling and though looks good seems to be hamstrung somehow