Enterprise content-managed websites need bi-directional content transfers on a regular basis. Here we explain why, and how to achieve this, a task which involves content editors, IT operations, and software development teams.
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October 25, 2011
Matthew Skelton
A short article on the differences between three important and fundamental security concepts that are often confused: Authentication, Authorisation, and Access Control.
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August 30, 2011
David Lampkin
The traditional web content management system (WCM/CMS), focused on presenting web pages to a browser, is no longer necessarily the right choice for managing and delivering content in a multi-device, multi-channel, content-syndicated world.
In this article, we look at the difference between a CMS and a content repository, and how and why you might decide that a content repository is the right technology for your expanding content requirements.
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August 16, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Developing web applications can be optimised to make the Test cycle quicker and more thorough. The HTML mark up – if written with automation in mind – will make automated test vastly easier to write and maintain, allowing builds to be more robust and code to be released more frequently with a higher quality. Furthermore, adopting a defensive approach to data validation and processing will lead to much more secure applications.
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July 3, 2011
Oliver Reid
Testing is an often under-appreciated part of the software life cycle. Timelines will shift, there will be delays with the development and the testing phase is the part the suffers. Here we have compiled a list of tips to help increase the productivity of testing and to help avoid releasing bugs into production and keep a high level of quality in the software released.
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June 16, 2011
Oliver Reid
Here is the video of the seminar we gave recently at Internet World 2011 on the Content Platform we built for TUI Travel.
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May 26, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Here are the slides from the seminar on Content Platforms given by our Principal Consultant, Matthew Skelton, at Internet World last week
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May 16, 2011
Matthew Skelton
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.
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April 7, 2011
Matthew Skelton
This post provides some much-needed clarity on the subject of HTTP server load, and demonstrates how to calculate the key metrics which allow system architects to plan capacity and estimate the scaling needed for a system.
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August 21, 2009
Matthew Skelton