Doesn’t it feel like every two years, you’re debating the merits of your CMS platform and considering a switch? Has your organization been through more than a single platform, or more than one installation of a platform in the past three years? Most likely, the answer is yes. The reason for this is that...
We couldn’t, in good conscience, call this a proper company blog if we didn’t publish some cheesy, holiday-themed post at some point, right? Well, here it is. Happy Independence Day! But despite the theme of this post being unoriginal at best, the message is important. More and more, we are seeing...
The nature of what we do as a custom development agency means we talk to a lot of different people from a wide range of industries who are all trying to figure out what software is going to make their website or application a success. All too often, when we bring up the idea of building a custom CMS to fulfil their...
Being a custom development shop—or at least a shop that completes the majority of our projects with custom solutions—we often find ourselves debating the merits of off-the-shelf CMSs versus custom software. In fact, I wrote a rather lengthy article about this particular debate just a few weeks ago. One of...
A few years ago, SensioLabs performed an analysis of PHP-driven projects and their levels of accrued technical debt. The results were shocking, to say the least. But first, let's take a step back and define what technical debt means. For many marketers and executives this term is likely something they are not...
I’ve been pontificating on the state of the CMS industry for quite some time now. It’s a complicated and convoluted space, with the term “CMS” meaning different things to different people. The industry’s biggest players and open-source projects haven’t done a good job describing what...
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