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Thursday, June 26, 2008
About this Blog and its Author

I'm P.J. Hinton, the Director of Engineering (and wannabee wordsmith) at Compendium Blogware. I'm part of a talented and passionate team of software and system engineers who are working to develop a better business blogging platform.I'm an old timer relative to the company's history, having started in early 2008 as Compendium's second full-time...

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Monday, October 22, 2012
A New Tool for Cleaning up Disreputable Inbound Links

Background For years, Google and black hat search engine optimization consultants have been engaged in an arms race over the use of inbound links to boost search engine result page rankings. This is rooted in Google's use of the PageRank algorithm, which attempts to quantify the importance of a website based on the quality of inbound links. The...

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Monday, July 16, 2012
The Power of a New Templating System

The task of maintaining a medium-to-large size website is daunting, and trying to do it manually can lead to all kinds of problems, including broken links, missing assets, and inconsistent appearance. Content management systems address this problem by providing a templating system, which specifies how dynamically generated content will be laid out...

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Thursday, June 28, 2012
What's the Right Metaphor for Content Marketing Infrastructure?

Although arguably much more than just a buzzword, content marketing is becoming an increasingly key element of a successful online marketing strategy. Achieving success requires the right mix of coordination, creation, compilation, and curation. Having ready access to high quality material that will convert a site visitor into an engaged lead is...

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Three Ways to Edit Content Like a Pro in Compendium's Editor

A few months ago, Compendium released a refresh to the HTML rich editor, based on CKEditor, that authors use to create content. Unless you're an adventurous type who likes mousing over toolbar buttons to see what each button does, there's a good chance you aren't aware of some of the goodness lurking therein. In this post, we'll cover some of the...

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Monday, May 14, 2012
Benefits of Continuous Deployment

In Software Development Agility is Key to Success Software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers have a delicate balancing act to follow. For subscription based services, clients expect not only value to be delivered in the here-and-now, but also expect increased value in the future. Market conditions can evolve rapidly, meaning the functionality delivered...

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
5 Ways Compendium Provides a Secure Blogging Platform

The Compendium Engineering team works actively with our sales and account management teams to address questions about the security of our blogging platform. Usually these questions come up during an IT department's due dilligence process, and we welcome them because it gives us the opportunity to highlight our commitment to protecting our clients'...

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Thursday, February 9, 2012
How We Keep Your Blog from Crashing: Load Balancing and Caching

Clayton Stobbs, Compendium's Director of Account Management, recently blogged about how we were able to handle a large influx of inbound traffic to our client's blogs: In total, BabyPlus received tens of thousands of visitors in a very short period of time. Now, this type of traffic is great but can also be a disaster if you're not ready for it...

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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Should Coding be a Universally Required Skill?

Fred Wilson, the well-known blogging venture capitalist, has been stirring up some buzz with a blog post where he encourages non-technical entrepreneurs to pick up some coding. Wilson also notes that the fund where he is a principal, Union Square Ventures, is investing in Codeacademy, based largely on this belief.Matthew DeBord, who blogs over at...

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Bank of America, Business as Usual, and the Passage of Steve Jobs

I lived with them on Montague Street In a basement down the stairs There was music in the cafés at night And revolution in the air Then he started into dealing with slaves And something inside of him died She had to sell everything she owned And froze up inside And when finally the bottom fell out I became withdrawn The only thing I knew how to do...

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