Month: July 2009

Recently, I’ve been dreaming about writing a next-generation .NET content management system (CMS). The CMS would incorporate a great feature set that my, as well as a ton of other organizations, would require out of a great CMS. After creating a project plan and set of documents, a friend of mine referred me to Umbraco, an open-source .NET content management system that claims to be as flexible as what I had imagined my CMS to be. My ambition for starting a brand-new project subsided since Umbraco incorporates a great number of the features I required. However, the main feature that my CMS had was platform independence. Umbraco, in its current state, is not ready. Neither is Mono. This article explains why. Continue reading “Umbraco and Mono: Can it be done?”