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DPCI helps launch Breakingnews.com, an aggregated news site > more

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Bachana interviewed by Lana Gates of Software Magazine for article on content management > more

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Bachana to speak at Gilbane Conference, December 2-4, 2008 > more


In order to remain the first choice of healthcare professionals as well as pharmaceutical companies, Thomson Reuters Healthcare knew it had to reduce the amount of time between when information became available and when the publication would be ready for consumers. Thomson Reuters Healthcare selected DPCI to implement Typefi Publish, an automated publishing platform that supports the development of richly formatted, brand-compliant documents. > more

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November 18, 2008

Privacy Redux

Last week I had the opportunity to sit on an industry panel at MarkLogic's Digital Publishing Summit. A woman from the audience gesticulated to the four hapless panelists and declared we were all 'legacy' executives and where were the young guys driving the 'Net. Needless to say, I was a bit nonplussed, but this did stick in my craw enough for a week to collect my thoug more

Posted at 11:08 am by Joseph Bachana

November 16, 2008

Preemptive Identity Theft Protection, in Reactive Mode

Last month I lost my wallet for the second time in my life. The first was over 20 years ago in the Rockefeller Library (the Rock) at Brown University. That time the wallet was returned, with the cash. Not so lucky this time, as it was lost (or pinched) in the NYC Transit system.

The contents of the wallet I lost last month: more

Posted at 09:06 pm by Joseph Bachana

November 06, 2008

What's in a Name?

I don't want to go too broadly in this blog on the history, theory, or meaning of file-naming conventions, but for as long as the computer has been around, filenames have been the quickest and easiest way of identifying a document's contents, or what an image is a picture of.

This may be true, but consider how many times you have seen files like the ones pictured below: more

Posted at 09:45 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

October 09, 2008

When The Going Gets Tough...

As a kid when I learned how to play basketball, my coach would also have us do 'suicide' drills at the end of pract more

Posted at 09:20 am by Joseph Bachana

September 24, 2008

Being First on the Block: Assessing Risks When Implementing new Software

Sometimes I just can't help myself when the Wizards in Seattle or Cupertino magically send a message to my computer - "Updates Available." A flood of excitement wells up inside me and I think, "Oh boy, something new!" or conversely, "Oh no! My computer is expo more

Posted at 10:12 am by Joseph Bachana

August 22, 2008

Your Web Content Management System is not a Washing Machine - Investing in Ongoing Product Management

Over the past 10 years, I've had the great opportunity to run a company that performs a range of services around implementation of content management systems including: business and functional analysis, information architecture, project management, development and integration servi more

Posted at 02:57 pm by Joseph Bachana

August 21, 2008

Making Macs Play a Little Nicer in a PC Network

Being one of the full-time Macintosh users in our office, I find that sometimes my co-workers can get a little annoyed with all the useless files my Macintosh spews out into network fold more

Posted at 11:18 am by Ivan Mironchuk

August 12, 2008

Tool Tips: InCopy Shared Dictionary

One of the features of InCopy that I find is a huge hit with editorial teams in my training classes is the ability to create a shared dictionary. While the shared dictionary feature can often be overlooked, it is quite easy to setup and will save lots of headaches once implemen more

Posted at 07:01 pm by Ivan Mironchuk

August 08, 2008

Holes in the Dam

I think companies worry too much about how people might misuse their content. They worry about putting content online because of how users may steal/change/modify that content. Call me naïve, but it seems to me that some users turn to piracy and redistribution to support alternate use cases, because their needs have not been adequately handled with an existing system. more

Posted at 02:55 pm by Craig McEldowney

August 05, 2008

Softcare Announces Xanthos

Here is an announcement from Softcare, a partner organization of DPCI (Link Here). They have been working on their next-generation editorial workflow engine codenamed "Xanthos". A few additional points: more

Posted at 12:49 pm by Joseph Bachana