tfnico's blog

For the last few weeks I've had the joy of working with a portal solution that also provides excellent CMS features. More often than not, portal meets CMS by being a Portal with some junky editor functionality inside , but there are also some CMS'es that feature bits'n'pieces of functionality like portlets, widgets and plugins. The portal I've been working seems to strike in the middle. It has the richest CMS interface I've come across in a portal product (content structure, versioning, editing all neatly packed into a comfy filthy fat applet client that actually works), and every bit of content is actually an instance of a portlet by its own right (how they've managed to keep the performance so high is quite impressive, and a mystery to me). This means that not only can I choose each piece of content from a large variety of portlet packages, but I can also transcend content between different states , which is a very handy portlet feature. However, there is...