Mild-mannered musings

I found this CMS Equals Business Suicide article while doing my usual late-night surfing...it's a bit of a rant, but a poorly educated rant at that...

He names the following Open Source CMS applications

The past couple of nights, in my "spare time", I've been implementing "hook_paymentapi" from Drupal's Ecommerce module for the Protx payment gateway, mainly as an exercise in a) Drupal b) PHP and c) the Drupal Ecommerce module.

I'll no doubt make it available here once I get it finished, I've got it most of the way there, just implementing the callback logic (I've done this before in Python, so it's not that hard). 

Given that I already owned the first edition of this book, I was skeptical about buying the newer updated version, at least I managed to holdout for a couple of months.

I'm a firm advocate of Free Software, and have been for the past 10 years or so.

I see the struggle that many charitable organisations make to provide information and support to the people they want to help, and I firmly believe that the money that's donated by people, needs to be spent efficiently.

Articles like this, while those of us in the technical world may scoff, carry influence with lots of people.

I'm moving back to Glasgow for family reasons...

Am looking around the Glasgow job postings, and not a lot has changed, still predominantly Java, with few, if any listings outside the Java/.Net arena.

So, unless I can get something working remotely, it looks like I'll be back to full-time Java programming again .

I've been working with Content Management Systems (CMS) for around 7 years now, and including home-grown, commercial and Open Source applications.

Around 4 years ago, I gave a presentation at the Scottish Linux Users Group and the main features of CMS systems I identified were:

Ok, almost 3 months after an apt-get upgrade on Debian testing put me off running Zope /Plone on my personal box (Debian opted for the Python-2.4.4c which Zope doesn't support).

So, I bought several books, read hundreds of web-articles, watched many screencasts, and finally opted for Drupal and so here it is.