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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

bit of an update..

its been all quiet on the western front here, as i still recover from a rather massive weekend that is. ugh.. why does my head still hurt.. and its tuesday..

lately at work i have had the pleaseure of having a play with mambo, which is a content management system that has won quite a few awards, not to mention the "Linux User and Developer Expo 2004 best Linux or Opensource software award".

It comes in both opensource and commercial licencing (commercial licencing includes support), but i for those that dont want the commercial version, i have found the mambo community vey strong and supportive.

I do have one criticism of mambo opensource though, and that is mamboforge which is a great idea (it contains all the plugins - modules and components in mambo terminology) but each module or component has the *most undescriptive* description i have ever seen (if it even exists). The lack of documentation is also appalling (but at least i can see that there are people trying to rectify this). This, in the end means you spend hours testing and randomly trying out new modules and components in a hope that you find what you are looking for, but in the end with perserverance, you will find it.

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