R.I.P. WWWCoder.com

All good things must come to end and the end has come for wwwcoder.com. It's been replaced by CMSHaven.com.  WWWCoder.com was my place for .NET code, it started out as a resource site for classic ASP, then ASP.NET, and finally writing DNN code. But, now my focus has changed. I don't write as much code as I did in the past, and I'm focused on...
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A walk down memory lane. Empower to the people!

I constantly repeat the mantra that a CMS should not be something for developers, it's for business users. Marketing drives the Web, not IT. IT provides a service to the business, and should provide the tools that allow the business to be agile, and flexible. Once installed the tools should be passed to the user, and not something IT needs to maint...
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Joomla 2.5.1 and 1.7.5 Released

Joomla 2.5.1 has been released to include a few fixes to the platform. For those who couldn't upgrade to the latest version, they also released a fix version 1.7.5...
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It's not about the tech, it's about the people.

So today I was setting up a couple CMS solutions for the .NET platform, and I'm still setting up some other open source systems. One thing I noticed about a couple of them was how difficult it was to manage content. The systems are not done inline within the site structure themselves, but rather have a back end interface to manage the content. It'...
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