Recently in development Category
Are websites software?
Over on Jesus is my Sword this weekend was a post wondering if websites should be thought of as software and free updates should be expected. It felt to me like he was saying that they should be expected. I don't think that same way. I'm much more under the opinion that a website servers a specific purpose now and that anything other than potential security issues should not be "given" as a free upgrade.
Is a CMS the Kiss of Death for a Programmer's Marketability?
Recently the company I work for made a decision to make a decision to choose a content management system (CMS) to use for most of our clients. In all, it sounds like a great idea for us programmers as the workload from designer to programmer would hopefully move from 30%-70% to closer to 50%-50%. But by being able to lessen our work load, do we essentially loose our marketability for the future?
Coldfusion Scorpio and Ubuntu
With starting a new job, I've had the opportunity to engulf myself in a new and "interesting" language: Adobe/MacromediaColdFusion. Because I'm starting out as a total beginner with CF and moving from PHP, I thought I'd sign up for some mailing lists from House of Fusion and also to be a beta tester for Adobe. I got a copy of CF 8 (codenamed scorpio) for linux and decided to take my old-school Mac and turn it into a ubuntu server with mysql 5, php 5, apache 2, and CF 8.
So I ran off to Ubuntu and grabbed a copy of their server edition of Edgy 6.10 and installed a LAMP server i just under 2 hours (slow computer and all, takes for a while.)
Online Design Portfolio
With the launch of theCircumlocution.com, I've decided that I no longer want to use Movable Type as the backend for displaying my online portfolio. To make things short, it just didn't have the capabilites that I wanted such as being able to highlight a current project or a best project or even finished projects. I do suppose it would be possible to add fields to the database to do this, but then I'd have to do custom programming to show the results. I'm sure there'd be a way to write a plugin for MT as well, but I don't really think I'll be suggesting MT as a blogging/CMS solution to anyone anymore because wordpress is free and fast (PHP), not expensive and slow (perl). So why learn how to program plugins for a, in my mind, slowly dying blogging system software?
