EP:002 – The Cotton Club Podcast

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I am still continuing to get my audio settings tweaked for these shows so please bear with me on this, hopefully in the next few episodes I can get this all ironed out. I wanted to release another edition of The Cotton Club this week before heading out of town so I asked my good friend Bill Wheeler of SWScripts to be on the show, Bill is also @swscripts on Twitter. Some of the topics that Bill and I discussed on this weeks show … [Read more...]

Some Personal, Business, & Development Goals for 2010

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The other day I was looking over my personal goals that I had set going into 2009.  I feel really good about what I was able to accomplish in 2009 but unfortunately there are still a few things that I am going to carry over into 2010.  This is not to say that 2009 was a bad year, in fact I would say that 2009 was probably one of the best years I have had in a long time, especially in terms of business and personal development. … [Read more...]

2009 Review: Open Source CMS Advancements (Poll)

Since CMS, or content management solutions, are a pivotal part of the web development industry, I thought that I would do a year-end review of the top open-source solutions that are on the market and try to highlight some areas of advancement that took place.  One thing that was evident to me in 2009 was the core advancements that were made in many of the open-source content management community. Not only did we see a lot of core improvements … [Read more...]

People Get Touchy When You Talk CMS

Recently Glen Stansberry did a post on the popular Nettuts website about the 10 most usable Content Management Solutions.  In his post he chose Wordpress as the top CMS, which wasn’t a huge surprise to me because I love Wordpress already, but it wasn’t the CMS’s that he mentioned or how he ranked them in terms of usability that generated the most commentary, it was the CMS that he excluded that raised the biggest stink… In case you … [Read more...]

Focusing on MODx Hosting Solutions

I recently did a blog post for our corporate website about our MODx hosting solutions.  As I have said in the past, we aren’t your typical hosting company, we very easily could be though given our advanced infrastructure, but for us that’s just not where our heart is.  We tend to take more of a developmental approach to hosting, this is probably because we are developers first and foremost. The fact that we don’t spend as much time … [Read more...]