Small but Mighty:The Bricolage Story

SilentBob4 writes "Bricolage is an example of the power of an open source project to survive its proprietary origins. As you will read below, Bricolage was originally started in-house by Salon magazine, and then open sourced by About.com. I imagined how very frustrated David Wheeler, a Salon employee, would have been had he been forced to watch the code he helped develop just die on the shelf. Never underestimate the strength of the human passion to create, and to see one's creations bloom in the light of day." The full story is at Mad Penguin."

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More Mad Penguin

[fm6]

I'm glad to see that Mad Penguin finally has Slashdot-effect-resistant servers. But they still need to do better HTML -- and a lot less Javascript!

Whats Bricolage?

[stratjakt]

Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. Built on Apache, the world's most robust and dependable Web server, and backed by the reliability of the ACID-compliant PostgreSQL RDBMS, Bricolage scales to meet the content management needs of the most demanding of organizations. Bricolage's intuitive browser-based interface works with any modern web browser, and lets you perform in minutes the customization and configuration tasks that other systems require hours to carry out. Furthermore, Bricolage features a fully customizable workflow environment, so that it can work the way that you work. Together with templating support built on the highly flexible and popular Perl programming language and extensive user groups and permissions, Bricolage provides an affordable yet powerful solution for your content management needs. A comprehensive, actively-developed open source CMS, Bricolage has been hailed as quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application available by eWEEK.

An open source assortment of random buzzwords. This sounds like just the product our marketing dept has been looking for!

Coolness, Park!

Re:Whats Bricolage?

[Urusai]

But can it leverage corporate synergy to enhance capability-oriented revenue enhancement solutions in today's fast-paced marketplace? I see that it is highly flexible, affordable yet powerful, and comprehensively provides solutions to my content management needs; but it must leverage use-case scenarios in an adaptable yet industry-leading model that features performance suitable for enterprise-class systems to be acceptible in today's fast-paced marketplace.

Re:Success is customer driven

[ShaniaTwain]

I dunno, my approach so far has been to shout at customers, poke them with sticks and let them know that they aren't smart enough to know what they want.
It hasn't paid off yet, but any day now I'm sure it will. people respect honesty.

even dumb people.

Re:Success is customer driven

[BerntB]

even dumb people.

Please use the polite and relevant term -- users.

:-)

Seriously, though. When I had a terrible time doing support for a program I wrote (fitting punishment), I thought that the world was made of users and supporters. Two conclusions... 1. Everyone are users of other's support and almost everyone are doing support, too. 2. All users are idiots, because we don't have time to think about things and ask instead.

(What Saint Dogbert preaches, I guess.)