Archive for December, 2007

Reuse Content Types in CMS - Overview

CMS is Content Management System for short. CMS is very generic, and normally it’s always used in web domain, but if you consider a website as a company, CMS to website is as ERP to company. And we may think each elements of an ERP system as a resource. So I do think in a CMS, the most important concept is EVERYTHING IS CONTENT. If you can think in this way, you should find it’s so great to reuse the content types.

This blog entry serial is about how to implement the reuse of Content Types in a CMS system.

1. Overview
2. Identify the content types
3. Define content types
4. Considering the granularity
5. Composite content types
6. Generate the user input interface
7. Presentation

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

由于Jasmin在读这本书《高效能人士的七个习惯》, 这对于她很难得, 于是乎我也翻了翻. 虽然还没看完, 但总结下来就是中国人常说的: 做人先做己… :)

Cool .Net Stuffs

I believe the last weekend is pretty great!

1. ASP.Net 3.5 extension CTP Preview

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-3-5-extensions-ctp-preview-released.aspx

http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/

ASP.Net has a MVC framework now, but if you have used MonoRail, it should be familiar. And if you have used RoR or something similar, that would be more familiar.

2. Spring.Net 1.1 Final

http://www.springframework.net/

I love spring…