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I’ve been programming for 21 years now.  Most of my career I’ve spent being on the bleeding edge.  This has helped when it came time to find work because I normally am one of the few people companies can find who have the skills they are looking for.

While I never intentionally set out to watch trends and adjust my skills accordingly, I’ve found that it has been a great asset, so that now I am a lot more intentional about watching trends and creating hypothesis about what they will mean for the job market.  So, the following are some observations.

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This post has been percolating in my brain for several weeks now and I think it’s finally at the point where it’s “done.”  Well, see…

The problem area is this.  At what point and under what conditions would you write the code yourself vs. using a content management system?  And if you were to use a content management system, which one should you use and why?

Along the way I’ll tell you what my current choices are, but more importantly, I’ll tell you what my thought process is.  So even if you decide to use different tools than I do, you can ask the same questions to select the tools you have decided to use.

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I know I said yesterday that I’d start a series about creating DotNetNuke modules, but I solved a problem yesterday after I wrote that post that I think a lot of you will be interested in.  Especially if you are using WordPress in combination with an ASP.NET site.

The problem we had was this.  We have an ASP.NET web site that requires a login before anyone can see any pages.  We wanted to add a WordPress blog to it that could only be viewed when people log in and wanted to be able to have the same user names in WordPress that they had in ASP.NET.

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