Will “The EvCC Strict Coder Guru”

It seems with the advancement of WYSIWYG editors, Content Management Systems (CMS), and One-Click Installs, that the once title of  “Webmaster” is slowly disappearing. Some of the small simple jobs that once were used as resume builders or quick start-up websites are being replaced with hosting companies that give One-Click component and software installs that give the owner ability to start a forum, blog, calendar, gallery, etc. in a matter of minutes. You say, “What should I be talking about, you are using one yourself!”… and I have to agree, as far as this B is concerned, this was a minute install just to create topic discussion. However I am one of those “coders” that can and will write in strictly code only.  Creating a Blog or Forum Interface is a matter of connection with a database and displaying it on the page. However by hand, it would take me far longer since I am simply one person. Wordpress for example had many developers with continues upgrades and patches, where I can create a specific interface suited for the owner. So are “Webmasters” going extinct? Maybe. However the true coders will still be writing these interfaces and web applications to make it easier for another user.

Working with Ektron the past few weeks, it has come to our attention that they seem to just grasp for something to work. With the current test environment on ColdFusion MX7 and their newest release of CMS400.NET v6.1, we were able to make a clean install. It worked until it came to the point to turn on AD authentication.

This project is intended to replace the Intranet, so AD authentication is a must. Currently AD authentication is working correctly on CMS300 (the non .Net release before CMS400). However on the CMS400.Net, the web services are getting 401 errors as the tags are trying to invoke to the CMS. The “support” told us that we should allow anonymous access or impersonate someone for the ‘webservices’ folder. This defeats the purpose of security. Read more

Working with Ektron’s glorious old-school eMPower, the main CMS product that started them rolling, I have noticed a few quirks that are quite funny and bring laughter to anyone’s day. After a Java update, much of our library failed to clients across the campus and it seems in mine (and probably others) that when highlighting text or pictures and move around, it adds more code.. just for highlighting.

I think I found an example too. Check out this screen shot of one of the Athletic pages after I was converting it to the new site. Can you guess by looking in the code, what the page was about???