Recent Real Story Group Blog Entries

Emphasizing the "T" in ETL

Experienced datacenter hands argue that content migration is really just a new take on the old problem of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).

FileNet Support for Visual Studio .NET

FileNet recently announced that it will support Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003, specifically, the new Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0.

IA Summit 2005 Announced

Each year, the Information Architecture community puts on a progressively better professional summit, devoid of hype, with lots of crunchy content.

A Plone Primer

A Plone consultant, Brad Bollenbach, has written a nice introduction to the open-source CMS, Plone (which is built on top of the Zope application server) in O'Reilly's ONLamp e-zine.

Records management for .gov websites

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has issued long-awaited guidance on the submission of web content that represents permanent records to the Archive.

Getting CSS into CMS

After carefully controlling your site design through cascading style sheets (CSS), wouldn't it be a shame to lose some of that power and flexibility when implementing a CMS?

Joel on (Social) Usability

In a long yet engaging article, noted software development guru Joel Spolksy has weighed in on software usability.

IBM buys Venetica

In a continuing series of CMS-related acquisitions, IBM has bought content integration (CI) vendor Venetica.

Mediasurface Floats

U.K. CMS vendor Mediasurface has become a publicly traded company on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange (ticker: MSR).