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Many Open Source content management systems written in PHP want to be recognized by the business industry as being "enterprise" ready. This is not only a mark of prestige and status but places them in a position where large companies are ready to invest in the software as a platform for their projects. Drupal is now trying making its move to be enterprise ready but has a long way to go.

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Bitrix Site Manager may seem unassuming, but underneath this CMS lays a fantastic algorithm that drives this CMS’ performance over almost all other existing CMS applications out there. It’s most definitely the most cost effective Content Management system today.

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Digg.com and digg style websites popularity are fading. Because they are totally dependant on user interaction and voting and there is no known way of stimulating growth of the user base. They will constantly be plagued by the lack of a business model that would allow growth which makes them very poor investment choices. They are not unique and are very limited in what they can produce. They are the pet rocks of the 21st century.

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Is it the black sheep of the family? The redheaded step child? or maybe one of the best keep secrets of Microsoft. Jscript.NET has long been hidden and removed from the choices among the ASP.NET family languages. It is probably the most versitile of all .NET languages and if handled right could push PHP aside as the dominant web language.

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Back in 2004 and even today web developers that use Microsoft technology are not willing to embrace the GNU/GPL system for open source software. So it is rare these days to find a mature open source content management system like Nukedit that has a Classic ASP code base.

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SitePoint is giving away PDF copies of the book "Getting Started With Flex 3" for the next 60 days. All you need to do is complete a one-page quiz about Adobe Flex to access the download.

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PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming. By allowing such uncommon flexibility, PureEdit empowers you to design web sites from the ground up, without forcing you to follow the narrow template rules you'll find elsewhere.

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Firefox 3 was released a few days ago and so far as a surfer I have enjoyed the experience. But as a web developer it is starting to cause me headaches. It seems that FF3 cannot stretch a div that has overflow auto to the full length of the content. I check this with really long lists and got this output. When I change the overflow attribute to hidden the div stretched as it should. IE7 though not my main browser has no problem with this code. I stopped using IE a long time ago but it...

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It seems that module dependancies have rendered Drupal 6 totally unusable for most projects. Taking a look at the major modules development cycles it will be along time before Drupal 6 is ready to take the place of Drupal 5. Unlike Windows XP and Vista scenario it is not a resistance to change and upgrades by users that is the problem. But similar to the Windows problem with adaptation is the fact that upgrading high calibre Drupal module costs. To explain this simply, many of the hub...

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Movabletype released an open source version of Movabletype 4.1 Yea!. But they suck at creating and supporting a community. Boo!. Nearly a half year ago they opened Movabletype.org again. Since then the only thing you can get there is confused. First they have the beta version of the CMS under the download button on the first page. Not the MTOS (open source) version but the retail version that is in beta! It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out this is just wrong. Secondly...

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