Questions tagged [content-management]

Content management practices and goals vary by mission and by organizational governance structure.

Content-management is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. Content management allows an organization to control the storage and retrieval of content objects, track content revisions, maintain a content audit trail, and enable a collaborative environment.

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When to use JCR (content repository) over other options?

I'm trying to evaluate content repositories (JSR283) like Jackrabbit and ModeShape but I must confess that I don't understand what problem resolves in first place and even if it is a good choice for the project. Which cases do you think is the best…
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Tool or library for comparing xml files

I am looking for an XML comparing tool that understands xml. It cannot be a line by line comparision like WinMerge or Beyond Compare. An ideal solution would be one that shows changes similar to the way Word 2007 shows track changes. DeltaXML does…
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"Best fit" font size - how do I measure a sentence width?

I'm coming up against a common problem with customised content management system design. I run a small web design company and I often have to make a certain area of a website editable for the customer. For example, there may be a bar along the top…
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Are there any decent open-source multi-tenant CMS's out there?

We're looking for a CMS that we can use as the basis for a new product we're rolling out. As it's principally a content based thing, we need to base everything on a CMS, but there's a few things we need: As we're supporting tens - hundreds of…
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How do I unload content from the content manager?

I tried using the dispose function on a texture2d but that caused problems and I'm pretty sure it's not what I'm meant to use. What should I use to basically unload content? Does the content manager keep track itself or is there something I have to…
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Javascript / CMS / editEase - What JS/Frontend-embedded CMSs exist?

I stumbled across a CMS written in jQuery that enables the site to be managed from the frontend (backend functionality is embedded in the frontend pages). Are there any other CMSs that are similar to this? editEase…
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How to define Content Management

First some background. I recently went for an interview and some of the questions asked to me was about Enterprise Content Management. Obviously, I did not have any experience and did not get the offer. But, it increased my curiosity and tried…
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What is fatwire from programmer perspective?

What open source toolkit does fatwire compare to and are there some particular advantages to fatwire? How hard is fatwire to export out of and move to a free alternative? How stable is it as a platform to write java extensions on?
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Are there any .NET content management systems that focus on usability and leave out the bloat?

I work in a shop that is mostly .NET based, and we're trying to pick out a content management system to use. This means we mostly likely won't be able to use any of the common open source CMS projects (Plone, phpNuke, anthing not based on .NET,…
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Any reddit alternatives?

So I asked this question recently on the existence of link submission + reputation systems. The response I got excited me to the core. I mean, reddit had it open sourced so why re-invent the wheel. But after reading this article, I was completely…
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Python CMS to create a video site like youtube?

Is anyone aware of a open source CMS written in python using which I can make a site like YouTube?
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Web application integration with Drupal

We want to build a web application, that is specific to our domain, but also includes forums, blogs, etc in this application. Some integration points to Twitter and Facebook are also required. There will also be a desktop application that connects…
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Apache Jackrabbit - Duplicate Node?

Using Apache Jackrabbit, I created two nodes at exactly the same path root.addNode("hello"); I was fully expecting the second addition to throw an ItemExistsException as described here, but it didn't. When I print out the path of the nodes to try…
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If you had to pick a free CMS to integrate with ASP.NET MVC what would you pick?

I am looking for starting from scratch with a CMS - specifically one that will integrate well with ASP.NET MVC. preferably somebody has written Html Helpers for me must be easily editable by an idiot must give me really nice clean HTML must be…
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How to get a list of the assets in the WP7 Content Project?

I can load a textures with: Texture2D texture = ContentManager.Load(assetName); But this throws an exception if the file doesn't exist. Is there a way to determine if a requested asset of a given name actually exists first? I'm storing a…
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