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When A Classic CMS Is Just Too Much
There are many great content management systems on the Internet that are free and handle a specific task. Pligg we’ve already stated is great for digg clones and Drupal is great for a general purpose website or e-commerce solution. The big blogging management comes directly from wordpress and their awesome CMS. Not everyone needs these [...]
Integration: The Final Frontier
As the wide world of the web continues to grow, companies are looking harder and harder at transparent user interfaces across many content management systems (CMS). One does not simply want a WordPress blog anymore, they want a blog, a forum, a social networking site, a digg-clone and many other things all tied together. Why? [...]
Large Demands For Drupal Work!
How does one know the success of an open content management system (CMS)? By the amount of quotes you get on jobs in that realm. Drupal, as many know, is a very stable and flexible content management system used by many firms and a large quantity of web developers. The trick? Drupal isn’t a walk [...]
The World Is Full of Spammers: Think Ahead
As a software developer I’m constantly challenged with avoiding annoying spammers. I easily spend 30% of my time working against people that serve no purpose but to bother me. The challenge isn’t simply blocking bots and spammers on development projects, it’s balancing the blockage with the loss of real users. A good test case, the [...]
Pligg Hits A Critical Security Vulnerability
Recently, the “digg clone” CMS Pligg was informed of a security attack that can compromise the entire management system by a hacker. It’s only a matter of time before a hacker exploits the vulnerability because this is an open sourced project and anyone can see the code changes, thus a hacker with some coding knowledge [...]