Drupal: is an open-source star on the edge?

For some, Drupal is a powerful content management system; for others, it's a development framework.

With more than 2m downloads and high-profile users like MTV UK, Estee Lauder, Fox News, and The Economist, however, there's no disputing the fact that Drupal is a great example of a successful open source project.

But all may not be well in the Drupal community.

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Posted 12 September 2011 14:02pm by Patricio Robles with 12 comments

WordPress 3.0: proof open source kicks butt

WordPress is one of the most popular open-source content management systems in use on the internet. But despite WordPress' popularity, one knock against it has been the fact that it's always been more a  'blogging engine' than 'true' CMS.

Yesterday, WordPress took a big step toward achieving 'true' CMS status with the release of WordPress 3.0. That's thanks to several of the new features it contains.

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Posted 18 June 2010 09:54am by Patricio Robles with 7 comments

Content management: putting it all together

If you made a list of all the essential tools in an online business' toolkit, what would be on it?

Chances are you'd include content management, analytics and multivariate testing.

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Posted 16 April 2009 11:44am by Patricio Robles with 5 comments

What software should you use for your blog?

The Technorati Top 100 consists of the internet's 100 most popular blogs as measured, of course, by Technorati. The blogs on the Top 100 list cover topics from technology to politics to celebrities.

But while the topics covered by the internet's most popular blogs may be diverse, the software that is used to run them isn't.

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Posted 19 January 2009 09:20am by Patricio Robles with 7 comments