I'd feel like running through the newsroom this morning yelling "it's alive, it's ALIIIIVE!" if I weren't so tired (what is it about complex projects that you always seem to find lots of small things at the last minute that need fixing, and what is it about large projects that something bad always seems to happen toward the end, just when you're furiously working, like hearing a loud "THUD" outside and running out to see that some dolt who'd been going by waving at her friends across the street hadn't noticed my parked car and so ran right into it?).
In any case, today's daily news, along with all of the news articles and columns from the 10/7 issue of Network World were output through Percussion Rhythmyx. Also, our daily-news RSS feed (which you can grab at www.nwfusion.com/netflash.rss) is now automatically updated whenever we post a new "major" news story (i.e., one up at the top of the NetFlash page). Before, we updated it by hand once a day.
In a word: Yeeha!
Maybe I shouldn't get so excited by software, but, well, we've now spent roughly four years looking for a CMS that actually works.
Over the next few weeks, we'll move the rest of Network World articles (reviews, feature articles and the like) into the system, freeing up our online editors and producers to do more interesting things than hand-coding index pages. Given that I just can't blog enough, I'll probably set up a separate Weblog to chronicle the effort and talk about CMSes in general (thus sparing Compendium readers who don't share my fixation on CMSes!).
In the meantime, though, if you do spot anything weird happening on the site, please let me know!
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