Articles on Miscellaneous

I recently wrote about how open source content management system (CMS) platforms like Drupal have gained a foothold in the government sector. However, the majority of enterprise-level CMS implementations at the Federal Government level are run by the big boys, including longtime market leaders Vignette and Interwoven. Continue reading

An unlikely adopter of Drupal CMS over the past couple of years has been the U.S. Federal Government. And it now seems like a very timely move given Obama’s Open Government Initiative. Continue reading

InformationWeek’s annual U.S. IT Salary Survey showed a median raise for IT professionals of 0% in 2010. The survey data was gathered from 20,000+ IT professionals between November and January. It’s the first time in 11 years that IT salaries have not increased. The pay freeze holds true pretty much across the board – managers, staffers, contractors, and consultants. Highest and lowest paying market segments – and job titles. Continue reading

Here are the most popular NFL team websites – ranked from 1st to 32nd. It’s not much of a surprise that “America’s Team” tops the list and ranked #1 in traffic for all three statistics providers. Continue reading

Firebug is a free plugin for Firefox that eases the pain of inspecting websites code without having access to the source code. It helps a lot when dealing with third-party code, such as Ning, with complex CSS structure. Continue reading