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A new year, a new blog
After finally jumping into this whole blogging phenomenon in 2009 (yes, I’m a luddite as well as a curmudgeon – would that be a “lurmudgeon”?) over on the Alfresco team blog, I realised that I was...
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Bottom 10 Predictions for 2010
In mid December, Justin Cormack (of Technology of Content fame) and I agreed to do a little retrospective on the worst things we’d seen during 2009. While Justin wasted no time in submitting a great...
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Scooped!
After congratulating myself on finding an available and (if I do say so myself) clever name, I’ve just discovered that there is already a Content Curmudgeon out there in the blogosphere. To avoid...
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A Slice of Pie
(with apologies to Pie on the title – it was too good to pass up! ) For quite a while now, Pie has been on a virtuous crusade to clearly define what is meant by the term “Enterprise Content Management”...
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NoSQL and CMS – a Match made in Heaven?
As anyone who’s visited planet Earth in the last year or so knows, the NoSQL (“Not Only SQL”) movement is rapidly gaining both momentum and mind share, despite a number of prominent detractors. Rather...
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NoSQL and CMS – A Brief Overview of the “nosql” Universe
Before we compare our list of CPS requirements against the universe of NoSQL, it helps to have an understanding of what NoSQL actually is. As it turns out, NoSQL doesn’t refer to a single technology...
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NoSQL and CMS – Comparing NoSQL with CPS Requirements
Now that we have both our CPS requirements mapped out, and a reasonable understanding of the NoSQL Universe, we can finally get to the fun stuff: mapping requirements to technologies. For this kind of...
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Lane asks for help
Short post to capture the initial salvo in the “Distributed Denial of Credibility Attack” against one @ljseverson: Lane asks for help (addendum: does anyone else find WordPress.com’s HTML...
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Twitter Shenanigans – #BadECMSlogans
Looks like this blog is transforming into an archive of snarky #ECM hashtags on twitter, but I guess it could be worse… …I could still be trying to write real blog posts. *sigh* As with the last one...
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Twitter Shenanigans – #CMSAsRoadSign
Thankfully this one was shortlived, though it did add a nice visual touch for a change (if I do say so myself). The rule in this case was that all of the photos had to be personally shot by the author...
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The Case for Killing “ECM”
I’ve been commenting quite a bit recently on Sir Pie’s noble quest to define “ECM”, but have held back on weighing in in detail until now. I figured it was high time I put my money where my mouth is...
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Taxonomania!
While deconstruction is serious business for the curmudgeon, I occasionally like to take a break from the rigours of sowing chaos and discord by presenting some more constructive observations. In this...
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Signs You’re at a Geek Conference
I’m currently attending Google I/O 2010, and while the technical aspects of the conference are being well covered elsewhere, what I’ve enjoyed more is the “people watching” aspect, specifically the...
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NoSQL and CMS – Requirements for Content Production Systems
For each of the CMS problem domains mentioned in the introduction, I’m going to start out by outlining the core requirements that are most relevant to NoSQL. Typically these requirements will focus on...
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Clients Behaving Badly
It’s been a while since I blogged, and while the next installment in my NoSQL and CMS series is in the process of being written, right now I’m fired up about a totally different topic, and thought in...
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Twitter Shenanigans – #ecmband
It’s been a while (too long!), but a couple of days ago another of these ECM / pop culture crossover memes hit the twitterverse, with some very funny consequences. Given that the meme seems to have...
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