Category Archives: Content Management

The Referer header, intranets and privacy

Posted on February 6, 2007 by ajohnson

I’ve discussed meaningful URL’s a number of times on this site: one of the biggest benefits of a good blog URL is that you can infer who posted the article, when it was posted and what the blog post is … Continue reading →

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RSS/Atom feeds, Last Modified and Etags

Posted on December 4, 2006 by ajohnson

Sometime last week I read this piece by Sam Ruby, which summarized says this: …don’t send Etag and Last-Modified headers unless you really mean it. But if you can support it, please do. It will save you some bandwidth and … Continue reading →

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Using Lucene and MoreLikeThis to show Related Content

Posted on November 14, 2006 by ajohnson

If you read this blog, you probably paid a smidgen of attention to the Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco. Sphere was one of the companies that presented and they launched a product called the “Sphere It … Continue reading →

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JSON: Making Content Syndication easier

Posted on August 21, 2006 by ajohnson

At work we’ve been having some discussions about sharing content between two websites: the natural first option was an XML solution, in this case RSS. Site A would subscribe to the RSS feeds of the site B, periodically retrieving the … Continue reading →

Posted in Content Management, J2EE, JavaScript, Open Source, Software Development, XML | 2 Comments

New design

Posted on August 7, 2006 by ajohnson

I got really bored with the old design of this site and all the cool kids seem to be using WordPress these days so last weekend I exported all 900 or so entries from Movable Type and imported them into … Continue reading →

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WebWork and meaningful URLs

Posted on August 1, 2006 by ajohnson

Personal pet peeve: meaningful URLs (which tonight I found out go by many names: pretty URLs, RESTian URLs, SES URLs, hackable URLs, etc…). At work, we use WebWork extensively but up until this point we haven’t made an effort to … Continue reading →

Posted in Content Management, Interface Design, Open Source, WebWork | 2 Comments

Creating RSS using Java

Posted on September 7, 2003 by ajohnson

I wanted to create RSS feeds for karensrecipes.com using Java. I did my ‘research‘, came to this page: Ben Hammersley.com: Java RSS libraries and then used the RSS4j library to create a servlet that serves up dynamic RSS feeds of … Continue reading →

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Open Source Content Management Conference

Posted on May 12, 2003 by ajohnson

I got cleared to go to the Cambridge OSCOM today. I’m going to sign up tomorrow. Since we’re debuting our own content management product soon (we’re having a party in June btw, you’re invited! email me if you’d like to … Continue reading →

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Open Source Content Management conference blog

Posted on April 18, 2003 by ajohnson

The Open Source Content Management conference has blog specifically for the Cambridge event, giving those attending (or just interested) the ability to discuss each program. Great idea!

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Open Source Content Management Conference registration

Posted on April 15, 2003 by ajohnson

Registration is now open for the Open Source Content Management Conference happening May 28-30 in Cambridge. It’s only $200 for 3 days…

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