1. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Content Management with Mambo Sean Tierney www.LightsOutProduction.com legaltech at gmail.com

2. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney My Background Self-taught (no formal CS training) 10 yrs in Web Primary experience is in ColdFusion apps After various corporate jobs… Now own and run “Lights Out Production” Launching Grid7 developer co-op shortly

3. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney What is Content Management (really)? Visual consistency Searchable Manages media assets conveniently Authoring tools Organization is decoupled from presentation Consumable in different formats Varying levels of role-based access Scheduled deployment capability Ability to syndicate material and consume other feeds Ability to view changes historically Takes care of “plumbing” like navigation and page creation Caching capabilities

4. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney What is Open Source? Free as in: –“speech” –“beer” Developer can: –Read –Redistribute –Modify Faster bug fixes Draws on collective intelligence of community Promotes spin-off uses and advances industry

5. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney An Entirely OSS Solution PHP MySQL Apache Linux Mambo (Joomla)

6. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney The Basics of Mambo Two-minute install process Template-driven design Static vs. Dynamic Content Pages Menus Media Manager Users & Roles Components (backend) Modules (public-facing components, multiple pages) Mambots (page controls, occur on a single page)

7. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Advantages of Mambo Free Intuitiveness of use Masks the complexity of adding advanced features Extensible through components (mamboforge.net) HUGE, helpful developer community OSS means flaws are fixed relatively quickly Inline editing easy to grasp for non-administrators Galleries of pre-built designs to start from

8. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Disadvantages of Mambo Its prevalence makes it a prominent target for hackers Some other frameworks are more customizable but with the cost of simplicity Non SEF Urls (can be mitigated w/ 404SEF component) Certain features unfinished (versioning management) Independent instances means no global control over many sites at once Alternatives -> www.opensourcecms.comwww.opensourcecms.com

9. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Beyond CMS: How to best position yourself Mentors and trusted “weather vanes” Having a strong foundation in the “principles of flight” vs. chasing the latest “jet engine” technology Be an “index” rather than a “book” Architects and Brick Layers – titles aside, which position is more likely to be commoditized? Strength in peripheral supporting skills (communication) Play! Side projects outside of work are the best way to learn new stuff and develop contacts

10. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Extras: Tools of the Trade Sourceforge is your friend Google Desktop - the 24/7 “helmet cam” Basecamp for collaboration Read blogs and keep your own iTalk for archiving meetings Treo (or other PIM device) David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” Listservs User Groups Podcasts – ITconversations.com- for the conferences you couldn’t attend Del.icio.us, Digg, Forums, O’Reilly books Subversion, Beyond Compare, Single-click VNC, Eclipse, Anagram, Visual Mind, Xenu Link Sleuth, VPC, Trillian, Shoutcast, Bloglines

11. Content Management with Mambo Scottsdale Community College 11/29/05 by Sean Tierney Questions? Technical details of the framework… Experience as small business owner… Career suggestions… Interesting projects I’m currently involved with… Technologies to keep an eye on… What else? Presentation will be available on: www.ScrollinOnDubs.com