Concrete The Studio

by Franz

Well no one on our end posted to you, because you’re quite clear that Beta projects shouldn’t be posted in your rules… and yes.. we read rules.. sometimes.

However, someone from your end must of been at osCon because we appeared on your site a few days ago. Here’s a snapshot of our google analytics for the last month:

Gotta say, we were gonna wait till we had a release we were calling final before posting to you, OpenSourceCMS.com. The fact that we just magically showed up is great! We’ll just take that as a pat on the back that what we consider Beta is pretty damn stable, and we’d like to say thanks.

(ps: hey reader, wanna help? vote for us on their site. when they first added us they linked to our demo in such a way that it wouldn’t work so we got some low votes that are messing up our average.)

by Franz

Just a quickie video I put together over the weekend of our experience at OsCon this year. Thanks o’Reilly!

by Franz

looks like some of the emerging c5 community is starting to talk about what we’re doing on their own blogs.. here’s a couple of the posts we’ve found, by all means comment if we missed ya:

http://www.codeblog.ch/2008/07/cms-concrete5/

http://jaipandya.com/2008/07/concrete5-a-nextgen-open-source-cms/

thanks!

by kate

Okay, who the hell turns their speaker volume up so loud that you can hear “YOU’VE GOT MAIL!” from their AOL account through their floor (our ceiling)? Our upstairs neighbors have received four pieces of mail today. We need to figure out a way to strike back. I’m thinking ceiling-mounted speakers and Ahnold.

by Franz

NetDisaster …you are so clever, so nice.

by Andrew Embler

I arrived at work today and prepared to engage in my typical morning routine. Step 1: Put lunch in fridge. Step 2: Brew Coffee. Step 3: wait nervously until step 2 completes. Step 4…well, you get the idea.

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by Franz

two good ones going around the office right now:

ManBabies.com

Caruso One Liners

enjoy.

by Franz

Some sites that I think are making the world a better place:

Minti.com - a parenting site that people seem to really use to reach out and find solutions and fellowship in parenting.

FreeRice.com - a mindless game you can play where the more you play the more rice they donate to the World Food Program. Does it make a difference? I dunno, but I like the idea of the energy people put into games being recycled into something useful.

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by Franz

http://www.thebigwordproject.com/
I can not lie, this is a good idea that we simply didn’t have first.
If someone could please explain to me how concepts like this go from 2 users to 2,000 - I’ve got some work for ya.
-frz

by Franz

It’s not all strategic crap and programming around the office.. in fact an awful lot of time gets wasted with stuff like this fantastically amusing video:

http://www.cracked.com/video_16019_video-game-pitch-meeting-1979.html

by Franz

Nothing shocking here, just reality. There are a lot of unique problems in the world and we don’t have time to solve them all perfectly. I’ll be the first to aknowlege that a Content Management company using something like WordPress to blog about their adventures is somewhat ironic. We do have a blog component in Concrete today, and it works well if you need to incorporate a blog into a larger more design centric site. For this problem, I did not. I just needed something I could setup quickly and use well from anywhere without having to take my developers away from building a CMS that serves our client’s needs… So in addition to WordPress, here are some other 3rd party tools we enjoy around the office…

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