Vgndeveloper.com Interview - Vignette Developers Support Portal

Programming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right?

Rubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do.

What the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That'd take the wind out of your sails. And while you're at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn't kill you to look respectable once in a while.

Life is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it's just gotten even easier.

VGNdeveloper.com has just launched (in Beta), and offers all kinds of support for Vignette devs, including a forum where you can discuss particularly tricky problems with other Vignette artisans; relevant news, a blog featuring How-To's and the like, jobs, and links to other helpful resources.

César Caamaño is the brains behind the website, and he took time to talk to CMSWire about vgndeveloper.com, Vignette, and the world of content management systems generally.

CMSWire: Let's say I'm a Vignette developer. What does vgndeveloper.com have for me?

César: Clicking on vgndeveloper.com means information and collaboration, a global open community about the Vignette world, especially focused on developers and administrators, but that's also relevant to every person interested in this platform.

In a few days a job offers' section will be opened, where the companies interested will be able to include their job offers, and registered users to enroll them.

vgndeveloper.com tries to fill up those gaps left over Vignette community, we think this is what every person working with it needs.

CMSWire: Let's say I'm a CEO or a CTO, or something along those lines. I'm researching different Enterprise CMS products because I'm about to undergo a major content management implementation process. Is your information relevant to me?

César: Of course! Before choosing a technology or a product, you need to know, in general terms, what does it offer and which are its weaknesses and strengths. This is another objective of this site, to show non-specialist users advantages and disadvantages of this platform; what they are able to do with it.

Vgndeveloper.com means information and collaboration to all levels, from a more technical approach of information exchange between developers and administrators, to a more functional one, aimed to non-experts.

Whether it is a project manager who needs to know more about Vignette to tackle new projects or a human resources employee who needs to recruit Vignette specialists, we provide relevant information to these kinds of people.

We've recently opened an active forum where users share information and knowledge, and a section of documents about Vignette platform, and all this will also be useful for the non-developer.

CMSWire: You mentioned briefly the strengths of the Vignette suite. What are those strengths? Why are you in the Vignette business instead of working with other Ent CMS, and where does the platform stand in the overall enterprise software/enterprise CMS heirarchy?

César: As you know, Vignette offers overall solutions for content management. Among this stands out VCM (Vignette Content Management), which, although its graphical interface could be improved (next version 7.5 promises to include AJAX for better user experience), it sets up a competitive content management environment. Characteristics like: multi-site, ACL's, advanced workflows, taxonomies, widgets, and the channel structure, allows organizing content in a very intuitive way, even for newbies.

Vgndeveloper.com Interview - Vignette Developers Support Portal

\nProgramming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right? \n\nRubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do. \n\nWhat the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That'd take the wind out of your sails. And while you're at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn't kill you to look respectable once in a while.\n\nLife is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it's just gotten even easier.

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