Archive for November, 2011

Upcoming: SANKO event on ADM code modeling & generation

The Finnish .NET User Group SANKO hasn’t been particularly active lately, much due to the busy schedules of potential speakers. But we’re back on the roll: On December 14th on 15:00-17:00 Finnish time, we’ll be having a session on an application modeling methodology called ADM. ADM is the brainchild of Finnish senior developer Kalle Launiala, […]

November 24, 2011 · Jouni Heikniemi · No Comments
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Valio.fi deep dive #7: The resource data storage model

After the previous post on how our CMS works on a concept level, it’s time to explain the technical details. Note that remembering the previous post’s concepts is pretty much mandatory for understanding this discussion. Oh, and this gets quite detailed; unless you’re designing a content management platform, you probably don’t care enough to read […]

November 19, 2011 · Jouni Heikniemi · No Comments
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Valio.fi deep dive #6: Features of our custom CMS

In the last post, I touched on the choice of using a CMS product or writing your platform yourself. We picked the custom platform approach, and this time I’ll tell you what that led into. What’s in a Content Management System? Wikipedia defines CMS in a very clumsy and overgeneric way. Let’s not go there. […]

November 5, 2011 · Jouni Heikniemi · One Comment
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