This is where you'll find a taste of the projects, tools and processes that I use for both work at E-scape and things of personal interest. Throw in an occasional thought or commentary and there you have it.
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A conversation that seems to crop up on a fairly regular basis is one that I am sure most of you are familiar with. It goes along the lines of...
First of all it might be worthwhile defining what we mean by CMS or more completely, a Content Management System. For the purposes of this entry we will limit ourselves to website systems, so in that arena, a CMS is a web application used to manage the content of a website.
Open source has been with us for much longer than most people would think. It has been a fundamental part of the Internet since its inception running up to the 1990s. Indeed the very first web browsers and servers were freely available to download, use and experiment with before the Internet had broken out of military and academic fields. So what is Open Source exactly?
Recently I had the opportunity to experience the true power of Twitter as a consumer and see how that power was turned into a positive customer experience by a business participating fully in their social network. As an online agency E-scape uses several Cloud based hosting solutions which up until recently were only available in US data centres. One of our primary solution providers, Rackspace recently made their Cloud solution available via their UK data centre and so it was a perfect time to start the migration of a few clients to servers closer to their target market.