My Dinner with Ingeniux

I am in Chicago at the EduWeb Conference. The fine folks at Ingeniux sponsored the opening reception. I got to spend some time with Jim, Nathan and Andrew chatting about Roanoke’s experiences with Ingeniux and the future of the Ingeniux CMS.

I suggested that they have some user group meetings, and they told me they are doing the first one in Chicago while they are in town this week, They mentioned that they wanted to do one in the Virginia area since they have Lynchburg, Washington & Lee, and Randolph College all as customers (in addition to Roanoke). I volunteered Roanoke as a host right away.I can’t wait to hear more from them.

The discussion spilled over into dinner where we had some great Sushi in downtown Chicago. (Full disclosure, no I did no actually eat Sushi)

I pumped Nathan for details on Ingeniux 6.5 and got him to “leak” the following nuggets:

• 6.5 has an all new publishing monitor that gives more verbose status updates and better performance (but what will I look at when I want to take a late afternoon nap? The old publish monitor had such a tranquil and meditative charm)
• 6.5 will finally do away with the Active-X client, and now be full on Ajax. This means the new Admin client is included!
• Ingeniux has purchased the new version of Peersync for all of their clients, and we are entitled to load the new version. Hopefully, this will solve any lingering Peersync issues that we have.

We also discussed integrating Coldfusion into the CMS. But I have spent so many years not doing it, I am still getting my heard around the benefits vs. the effort now. Nathan told us the way we are doing it now is the “pro” way anyhow!

I got quite a bit out of the time I spent with them (totally worth the trip to Chicago), and am looking forward to using some of our 360 development hours to talk about topics like Taxonomy, SEO, and integration with the Google Analytics API.

I was also super excited to see Roanoke featured prominently in the Ingeniux ad.

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