Plone Konferenz Munich 2012
Speaking of events, I've been invited over to Munich next week to deliver one of the keynote talks at the Plone Konferenz that is being hosted there. There are 34 talks over three days. Most of the...
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Plone Konferenz Munich a Success
This month, the Plone Konferenz München 2012 took place. I was invited along to the event by the organiser, Philip Bauer from Starzel.de to present a keynote talk. I was only able to make a very quick...
View ArticleGovWest and Building and Intranet Your People Will Love
Two events I'll be speaking at this week:GovWestDue to a drop out of a speaker, I volunteered to speak at the GovWest event in Bath tomorrow. This event is being organised by Matt Jukes as part of the...
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'10 Intranet Lessons' event moving to new Birmingham venue
After the success of our last two events '10 Lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals' we have decided to host another event, this time in Birmingham.We have managed to...
View ArticleWorld Plone Day 2012: Bristol, UK
World Plone day is happening this Wednesday the 25th of April. What is World Plone Day? It is a chance for companies and organisations all across the globe to run some kind of event related to Plone....
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Plone Open Garden 2012 - Sorrento
Once again this year I attended the Plone Open Garden event in Sorrento, Italy. This is an event I look forward to during the year as it gives a chance to really take a step back and chat with people...
View ArticleCMS Smackdown! - BathCamp #32
TL;DR: A bar brawl. Seven CMSs in the ring. Plone gave them a good kicking. Interesting to learn form other CMSs. My talk on Plone is here.Wednesday evening I attended the "CMS Smackdown!" at BathCamp....
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A Concentration on UX Throughout
User experience (UX) is often spoken of in terms of the look and feel of visual elements: the layout of a navigation or the arrangement of fields on a form. A UI-layer thing.It’s comforting to believe...
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Working Against the Grain
With any tool there is a natural fit for that tool. We've all seen this in all manner of parts of our lives. Using a butter knife to unscrew the back of a kids toy to add new batteries, using a shoe as...
View ArticleA Brief Bit of History
The University of Bristol have recently done a campaign to highlight the success of the University's alumni after they graduated. As part of this they commissioned a number of short videos with a...
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The next '10 Intranet lessons' event to happen in Reading
We are pleased to announce that Netsight is hosting another Roadshow event '10 lessons learned from building successful corporate intranets and portals'. This event will be held in Reading at The Town...
View ArticlePlone Conference - How to convince my boss I should go?
In just over 3 weeks time, Plone Conference 2012 will take part in Arnhem, Netherlands. The Plone Conference is an annual event that takes place in a different city each year and brings together the...
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Python / Plone Developer Wanted
Netsight are looking for a new full-time developer. Based in Berkeley Square, Clifton, we are one of Bristol's longest running web design and development firms. This is a great opportunity for the...
View ArticleWhat can Software Learn from A Dresden Doll?
A few days ago, I saw a tweet from Simon Phipps pointing out a TED talk done last month by Amanda Palmer. In his blog post Simon highlighted the final words of Amanda in her talk on the music...
View ArticleReading Roadshow May 2013
Due to the success of our Roadshow in Reading at the end of last year we have decided to do it again, in exactly the same location with exactly the same agenda.Reading worked well for us and our...
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Plone Open Garden 2013
Once again I made the annual pilgrimage I make to the home of amazing food, ice cream, sunshine and amazing people -- The Plone Open Garden in Sorrento. This is now something like the 5th time I think...
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User Management in Plone - Single Sign-on, Active Directory, etc.
The week before last I was in Sorrento at the Plone Open Gardens and presented a talk on some work we had been doing at Netsight on doing transparent Single Sign On to Plone using Active Directory...
View ArticleProprietary Software CEO shoots self in foot regarding Open Source
I just saw a tweet from Jeff Potts, Chief Community Officer at Alfresco pointing to an article on CMSWire.com in which the CEO of Univa, Gary Tyreman, claims that proprietary software is safer, less...
View ArticleSoftware release cycles
Wow, it's been many months since I last blogged anything. Last night I saw something on twitter though that got me thinking. It was a tweet by Gartner Analyst, Merv Adrian:
View ArticleNetsight is Recruiting Experienced Web Developers
Netsight are looking for a new full-time developer. Based in the UK, we are one of Bristol's longest running web design and development firms. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to...
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