Content Convergence and Integration 2008: Changing the Content Management Landscape

By travis, on November 20th, 2007

We went from content silos to content management silos to enterprise silos. But by necessity, our need to share information is pushing us to collaborate beyond any arbitrary boundaries. What does this mean for our profession? By going to content management systems, are we just catching up with today, or preparing for tomorrow? Will Content 2.0 catch up to Web 2.0? Strategy A is bringing the first content management conference to Vancouver that covers content management from both the Web and XML structured authoring perspectives.

Looks like it could be an interesting conference. Check out more details at confabb.

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FEA and Content Integration – Gilbane DC

By travis, on August 10th, 2007

I forgot this from months ago. I should post my slide deck from the “The Gilbane Conference – Washington DC: A conference on Content Technologies for Government and Non-Profit Agencies in Cooperation with CMS Watch.” I presented on the FEA and Content Integration. In a nut shell I explained parts of the FEA and its alignment to ECI. Note that ECI is more than just technologies but its an architecture. The FEA intersects with ECI in the Technical and Data Reference models.

Cheers!

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Office Humor

By travis, on July 9th, 2007

Cleaning out my inbox this morning and felt a bit inspired to post this one.

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!

1. BLAMESTORMING
Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2.SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3.ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .

4.SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6.PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

8.SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9.STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10.SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11.XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

12.IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17.OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

18.WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

If you like these I did a quick google search and found a site with many more at Office Jargon for the 21st Century

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Don’t be an ass…

By travis, on June 25th, 2007

A few years ago I spent quite a bit of time figuring out Mule. Initially on the projects homepage they referenced the EIP book( shameless ad on the right). The project really demonstrated that they were really taking the patterns in the book and were creating a real world application that implemented the patterns. After diving into the code I came to the realization that this project really is creating a good product. The developer side of me found Mule a to be very usable utility. The architect in me found Mule to be a very usable in the design. I had to take myself off the mailing list because the product was just getting too much attention and I had to drop the list due to the massive volume of posts. I’ve deployed the product once and have recommended it like a billion times. It was a great utility and since then it has turned into a good product. Take a look their getting started write up. If you’d like to work for the company directly there seams to be a few openings that has come with some venture monies. They’re headquartered in San Fran. Take a look at the open positions here.

The Mule position openings and witty title were made available by James Governor’s post

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