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Lessons from a Dying CMS by Sandy Smith
Unless you work exclusively on one of the existing CMSes--and maybe even if you do--you've probably been tempted to build your own comprehensive CMS at one point or another. Before you give into temptation, let me tell you why you shouldn't...and then give you some tips I learned while building, maintaining, and abandoning an in-house CMS, because you'll likely give into temptation anyway. I'll cover the pros and cons of having your own CMS, and then, focusing on a typical MySQL-based medium-sized CMS, a few lessons I learned, including the dangers of coupling and inheritance, dos and don'ts of performance improvement, some stuff to avoid in database design, and a successful, simple way to deal with representing trees of content in databases. Let my pain be your gain.
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