Monthly Archives: May 2009

Simple Content Management

By Kathy Bragg | Published: May 23, 2009

Sometimes you just want a simple way to let your users edit the pages on their site without having to yell for a developer all the time. There are many many CMS offerings out there, with varying degrees of complexity. Most of them require quite a bit of wrangling. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you [...]

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Why a spreadsheet isn’t a database

By Kathy Bragg | Published: May 13, 2009

When I discuss workflow and get told ‘and then we type it into this spreadsheet’, I worry. Spreadsheets do have their uses, and when used appropriately are a fantastic way to display or manipulate data. What they are not, is a database.
Unfortunately, a spreadsheet is a quick and dirty way of routing round system limitations, [...]

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