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This year blogging
Not including this post, I posted 50 blogs this year, which received 67 comments. Clearly, I’m not prolific (!), but I’m happy to see more comments than posts, and I’m content with roughly a post-a-week average for 2008. (For those with a young, active families and with jobs that aren’t centrally about blogging, I’d love to know how pull-off a higher posting average without impacting your quality of life and quality of work. 
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Blogging is a discipline, and it’s something I intend to continue pursuing in the coming year. So, with that in mind, here is how things online ranked here in 2008:
Top 10 posts written in 2008
- DFS tutorial
- CMIS – Content Management Interoperability Services – received the most comments this year
- DFS best practices
- Download PDC2008 presentations – i.e. essentially a public service post
- Blue Ocean Strategy – i.e. one of my book reviews (and not the one I expected either)
- Documentum 6.5 with services in mind
- DFS Object service consumer #1
- DFS Object service consumer #2a – second most comments this year
- DFS Object service consumer #2b
- DFC, Microsoft developers, .NET and DFC PIA – i.e. a post about pre-DFS development using Documentum in a Microsoft environment
Top 10 posts (ever)
- Documentum Foundation Services (DFS)
- DFS tutorial (see above)
- CMIS – Content Management Interoperability Services (see above)
- Ruby coding conventions, standards and best practices
- Spell checking Java source code
- Great NASA observatories
- DFS best practices (see above)
- Download PDC2008 presentations (see above)
- The Starbucks Experience- i.e. another book review of mine
- What’s new in DFS 6.0 SP1
Top three pages in 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, I hope that you have a safe and hopeful new year.
How do you say CMIS?
While I’ve been saying “see em eye ess” for CMIS up to this point, I’ve discovered that others are pronouncing CMIS “see miss” instead.
- One’s pronunciation of SQL has been offered in support of pronouncing CMIS (i.e. “see qul” versus “ess queue el”). (I say “see qul;” so perhaps I should be saying “see miss.”)
- Using the shortest pronunciation possible as measured by number of syllables has been offered in support of “see miss” (i.e. two versus four syllables).
- Conjunctives like CMIS-enabled, CMIS-ready, etc. has been offered in consideration of “see miss.” On other hand, “see em eye ess” may be better in conversation with someone not yet familiar with the standards effort.
- One’s locale and native language has also been offered in support of “see em eye ess” (e.g. easier to understand in conversation with non-native speakers by avoiding use of two common English words, which can be hard to parse in the middle of a sentence for someone not already used to the meaning).
- Pop culture features shows like CSI, SVU and NCIS. Initialism applies to these shows (e.g. you don’t hear “see sci” or “en sis”). Therefore, …
So, how do you say CMIS?
P.S. Yes, this is completely unimportant in every technical aspect where the standards effort around CMIS is concerned. Nevertheless, consistent identity, including pronunciation matters, and the standards effort is just getting started…
P.P.S. Happy Thanksgiving!
CMIS at SOA World
Today my EMC colleagues Dr. David Choy and Patricia Anderson presented CMIS to SOA World attendees, “An Industry Effort to Define a Service-Based Interoperability Standard for Content Management.” They were kind enough to let me post their work here.
Cover Pages technology report for CMIS
Robin Cover just published a technology report for CMIS to support the activities of the OASIS CMIS TC and external commentary, and with the intent to update the document with relevant bibliographic references as the Technical Committee work progresses. Thanks, Robin.