RSS as Business Notification Tool
"...automated business systems are being retrofitted to generate data in RSS format. For example, Triple Point uses StarTeam for source control and release management... In the past, developers were required to produce email announcements of each source code change; now that process has been automated via RSS."This is an interesting concept. Since RSS feeds are automatically generated by the MidCOM newsticker component, I've started monitoring the news items of our clients and partner companies in my NetNewsWire RSS aggregator.This helps me keep up-to-date with what they are doing a lot easier.
The next logical step would be to take RSS implementation even further in MidCOM and Nemein.Net. Already components like newsticker, photos and rss provide RSS output, but same could be done for discussion, events and many others.
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Decoupling Content Management
Traditional content management systems are monolithic beasts. Just to make your website editable you need to accept the web framework imposed by the system, the templating engine used by the system, and the editing tools used by the system. Want to have a better user interface? Be prepared to rewrite your whole website, and to the pain of having to...
New user management tool for Midgard
In past there have been two types of user management tools for Midgard: the built-in ones that have supplied lists of users, and then custom-made ones. With former the problem has been that when you have thousands of users the HTML views become slow to load and near impossible to use.