May 2013
15
Bas van Leeuwen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes (and JavaScript)

MOAR Community stuff please! We had a nice little meetup yesterday where we discussed at length what Javascript is and what it can do for you. Since we at hippo are actively focusing on enhancing our current UI, this is a very interesting topic for us.

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May 2013
12
Ard Schrijvers

Best practice for Document Metadata with Hippo CMS

This blog is about *where* to store Metadata for a document in Hippo CMS. It is not so much about what exactly is metadata and what is not. It is not about 'Structural metadata' versus 'Descriptive metadata'. It will be about how to work efficiently (performance/storage) with Hippo CMS and Metadata in Documents. For example how to model Metadata to efficiently query for 'give me all products between date X and Y', or, 'give me all products sorted by color'. If you confine yourself as a developer to the very simple 2 content model rules below, you won't be trapped by having to write complex queries, complex inefficient java classes, impossible faceted navigations or non-performing queries after your repository grows to large document numbers.

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May 2013
01
Sonja Wraith

What if… Hippo was in the Forrester Wave 2013 for WCM

The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For Digital Customer Experience, Q2 2013 is one of the more transparent analyst reports about our market out there, yet there is a few things you should know when selecting a content management system and taking the Wave into account.

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April 2013
26
Bas van Leeuwen

A love letter to our partners

We need our partners more than they need us.

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April 2013
12
Bas van Leeuwen

Convince your boss and attend HGT2013

How to convince your boss to allow you to go to the Hippo GetTogether? I did some shameless stealing from the Adobe Digital Summit; replace Summit with GetTogether, Adobe with Hippo, discount with free and Bob's your uncle!

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April 2013
03
Jeroen Verberg

The False Premise of Open Source Vs. Proprietary

You know the scene in Star Wars where Obi Wan Kenobi is in the Millenium Falcon watching Luke practice his light saber and he “feels a great disturbance in The Force.” Well, a couple of days ago, I was sitting in the Hippo offices here in Amsterdam and felt a disturbance.

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April 2013
02
Ard Schrijvers

Hippo CMS and Edge Side Includes

Hippo CMS' Delivery Tier has been designed from the start to scale up and out linearly. I've written blogs which explain some of the backing concepts recently. My previous blog was about measuring performance, where I showed rendering with Hippo Delivery tier is blistering fast, even without page caching enabled. How much is enough, you could ask yourself like Edward Skidelsky did regarding economic growth. Ethics regarding performance (scalability) are fortunately much easier: Performance is a self-evident good, the faster, the better.

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March 2013
20

Why should (sales) people use Twitter?

It was a great #twitter day last Tuesday. I was working at home, doing a lot of (cold) calling, preparing presentation and proposals for our beloved customers and had some interesting (twitter)conversations....

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March 2013
07
Ard Schrijvers

Reproducible and falsifiable performance tests with Hippo CMS

The Hippo Delivery Tier is completely optimized for high volume dynamic page rendering and scales nearly linearly vertically and horizontally. Even without caching switched on, amazing numbers are produced. I have always been obsessed with performance, and whenever we were asked to add a feature that could not ever perform, we did not add it to the delivery tier. If you consider the above sales mumbo-jumbo, please continue reading.

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March 2013
05
Maurine van Mourik

Hippo growth

Happy 2013! I know am I quite late, but it’s the perfect start of a happy blog. We have a lot of reasons to be happy, because it's going well, damn well!

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