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Magnolia CMS is an easy-to-use open-source content management system (CMS) with many advanced features. Here, we’ve collected together several articles and blog posts relating to Magnolia CMS.
Read more Leave a Comment April 29, 2011 Matthew Skelton
When budgets are limited, web product owners can face a daunting task of deciding which SmartPhone device to support first. With market share changing so rapidly, this can be a difficult decision. We’ve pulled together some statistics on SmartPhone use to help with these kinds of choices.
Read more Leave a Comment April 28, 2011 Matthew Skelton
As reported by the Real Story group, the latest Google Search Appliance (GSA 6.8) now has faceted search, amongst other things.
We blogged on the GSA last year, noting how – although the GSA has some powerful features – its administrative interface and feed control were both somewhat lacking. It seems that the main new features are: faceted navigation, a SharePoint 2010 connector (useful for intranets), and Active-Active mirroring. How many of the glitches we found back in 2009 (such as poor ampersand handling, batch import control and index purging) are now fixed is not clear, although a side-effect of the new faceted navigation seems to be that the search result estimates are now accurate.
Read more Leave a Comment April 27, 2011 Matthew Skelton
Two Priocept developers, Chris and Adam, went to Basel last week to get trained up as Magnolia developers. Here’s a quick report-back.
Read more Leave a Comment April 23, 2011 Chris Jennings
The Twitter Engineering team (@twittereng) has just achieved an impressive 3x performance improvement for Twitter search queries, largely, it seems, by replacing Ruby-on-Rails web applications with new applications built on Java, coupled with a switch from MySQL to Lucene for the data store.
Read more Leave a Comment April 7, 2011 Matthew Skelton
Earlier this week, thousands of Vodafone customers around the south of England lost mobile service (calls, SMS, data). The cause? Theft of equipment at one of Vodafone’s operations centres in Basingstoke.
It appears that Vodafone has or had a single point of failure (often referred to as ‘SPOF’) in its infrastructure, surprising, since SPOF is usually one of the first aspects of a complex system to be identified and removed/mitigated.
Read more Leave a Comment March 2, 2011 Matthew Skelton
Selecting the right Web Content Management (WCM) system presents unique challenges for organisations keen to make the most of what can be a significant and strategic investment. New modes of customer engagement – from e-commerce to social media and online marketing – turn many older assumptions about WCM on their head.
Read more Leave a Comment January 4, 2011 Matthew Skelton
Although the Jacquard Loom does not compute, is does feature stored programs in the form of external punched cards. These programs are not tied to a specific machine, and a machine can be supplied with numerous different punched cards, and therefore can weave many different patterns.
Priocept has recently been working with Apache Solr, a kind of “Lucene on steriods”, which fast approaches a NoSQL database when used for applications such as geodata and automatic data categorisation (as used on eBay).
Read more Leave a Comment September 1, 2010 Matthew Skelton
According to Gartner’s latest report, the User is now more important than the Content when selecting WCM systems. Multi-channel user engagement requires fully-integrated products spanning content delivery, tracking, analytics and personalisation.
Read more Leave a Comment September 1, 2010 Matthew Skelton
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