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Title: Content Management with Mambo


1
Content Management with Mambo
  • Sean Tierney
  • www.LightsOutProduction.com
  • legaltech at gmail.com

2
My Background
  • Self-taught (no formal CS training)
  • 10 yrs in Web
  • Primary experience is in ColdFusion apps
  • After various corporate jobs
  • Now own and run Lights Out Production
  • Launching Grid7 developer co-op shortly

3
What is Content Management (really)?
  • Visual consistency
  • Searchable
  • Manages media assets conveniently
  • Authoring tools
  • Organization is decoupled from presentation
  • Consumable in different formats
  • Varying levels of role-based access
  • Scheduled deployment capability
  • Ability to syndicate material and consume other
    feeds
  • Ability to view changes historically
  • Takes care of plumbing like navigation and page
    creation
  • Caching capabilities

4
What is Open Source?
  • Free as in
  • speech
  • beer
  • Developer can
  • Read
  • Redistribute
  • Modify
  • Faster bug fixes
  • Draws on collective intelligence of community
  • Promotes spin-off uses and advances industry

5
An Entirely OSS Solution
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • Linux
  • Mambo (Joomla)

6
The Basics of Mambo
  • Two-minute install process
  • Template-driven design
  • Static vs. Dynamic Content Pages
  • Menus
  • Media Manager
  • Users Roles
  • Components (backend)
  • Modules (public-facing components, multiple
    pages)
  • Mambots (page controls, occur on a single page)

7
Advantages of Mambo
  • Free
  • Intuitiveness of use
  • Masks the complexity of adding advanced features
  • Extensible through components (mamboforge.net)
  • HUGE, helpful developer community
  • OSS means flaws are fixed relatively quickly
  • Inline editing easy to grasp for
    non-administrators
  • Galleries of pre-built designs to start from

8
Disadvantages of Mambo
  • Its prevalence makes it a prominent target for
    hackers
  • Some other frameworks are more customizable but
    with the cost of simplicity
  • Non SEF Urls (can be mitigated w/ 404SEF
    component)
  • Certain features unfinished (versioning
    management)
  • Independent instances means no global control
    over many sites at once
  • Alternatives - www.opensourcecms.com

9
Beyond CMS How to best position yourself
  • Mentors and trusted weather vanes
  • Having a strong foundation in the principles of
    flight vs. chasing the latest jet engine
    technology
  • Be an index rather than a book
  • Architects and Brick Layers titles aside, which
    position is more likely to be commoditized?
  • Strength in peripheral supporting skills
    (communication)
  • Play! Side projects outside of work are the best
    way to learn new stuff and develop contacts

10
Extras Tools of the Trade
  • Sourceforge is your friend
  • Google Desktop - the 24/7 helmet cam
  • Basecamp for collaboration
  • Read blogs and keep your own
  • iTalk for archiving meetings
  • Treo (or other PIM device)
  • David Allens Getting Things Done
  • Listservs
  • User Groups
  • Podcasts ITconversations.com- for the
    conferences you couldnt attend
  • Del.icio.us, Digg, Forums, OReilly books
  • Subversion, Beyond Compare, Single-click VNC,
    Eclipse, Anagram, Visual Mind, Xenu Link Sleuth,
    VPC, Trillian, Shoutcast, Bloglines

11
Questions?
  • Technical details of the framework
  • Experience as small business owner
  • Career suggestions
  • Interesting projects Im currently involved with
  • Technologies to keep an eye on
  • What else?
  • Presentation will be available on
  • www.ScrollinOnDubs.com
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