Jahr: 2018

A generic workflow engine, configured via a graphical diagram editor on top of an XML syntax – that’s what I tried and failed to develop more than 15 years ago. I did help build three generations of a simple “workflow” component integrated in our DAM product to drive asset ingestion and export, kept reading (see…

Imagine you introduce a shiny new Digital Asset Management (DAM) system in your company which can feed all kinds of metrics into the brightly-colored Grafana dashboard hanging on your wall. What would you track on that dashboard to help you manage, grow and troubleshoot your DAM system? Off of the top of my head, these…

While I do use JSON, I still think XML is superior for some important use cases (long-lived data that may be exchanged with other systems). So here’s a quick “rant” – prompted by Dan Brickley’s response to Bob DuCharme’s Reification is a red herring – aimed at those (younger?) folks “dissing” XML 🙂 Over time,…

This time, I cover two months at once: Here’s the Digital Asset Management (DAM) articles from February and March 2018 which I recommend reading. I picked them from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links and…

In my experience, things diverge quickly in software development when people stop talking to each other. It’s costly if we notice too late that priorities or needs have changed, schedules slipped, or features evolved in the wrong direction. Developers, users, managers (product, project, or people managers): Keep talking – all of the time – to…

Here’s the Digital Asset Management (DAM) articles from January 2018 which I recommend reading. I picked them from the constant stream of blog posts you can see float by on Planet DAM. For more curated DAM links, see the weekly Digital Asset Management.com Links and Tracy Wolfe’s 10 things on the 10th. The big news…

The single, central content repository might exist somewhere, but the businesses I’ve seen employ a dozen or more content-focused systems: ECMS, WCMS, DAM, search, publishing systems… All of which need to be integrated for content and workflows to cross system boundaries with ease. (For example, to search and select images in the DAM system and…