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We’ve worked with a number of content management systems over the years, and one of our favorites is Radiant: an open-source Ruby on Rails project. That’s why we’re looking forward to its next major release, due any day now.

There are a number of features which make this an especially exciting release, like the artfully redesigned admin interface and support for international and multilingual teams. But we’re particularly pleased because a lot of the new enhancements come from Digital Pulp’s own development team.

Working closely with an open-source project (Digital Pulp has employed several core Radiant developers) doesn’t just give us a warm and fuzzy feeling; it’s a great way to tailor the product to our specific needs. Larger content management systems fill a niche as well, but none of them can boast that some of their best features were written specifically for a Digital Pulp client.

We’re all excited to continue working with Radiant and the talented developers who run the project. If you have questions about Radiant CMS tweet @digitalpulpinc.

Radiant, an up-and-coming open source content management system, is now available as a service. The flexible Rails framework with enterprise level capabilities coupled and hassle-free hosting could offer exciting possibilities for clients with limited support from technical staff.

Check it out… http://radiantmachine.com/

We’re very excited to announce the launch of eleven international sites for Polartec this week. Polartec.com is the online presence for the creators of Polartec® fabrics – the most advanced performance textiles available today. Polartec® fabrics range from super lightweight water repellent fabrics to flame resistant fabrics for the military.

Erika, Senior Producer says... ”It was great to see the flexibility that the Radiant CMS offered and how seamlessly the Flash integration was executed. Polartec.com has the glamour of flash with the backbone of Ruby.”

Josh, Senior Developer says… “The Radiant community places a lot of value on standards and best practices so it was it easy to come in and work with the existing codebase. I don’t feel like we had to make any compromises.”

Justin, Web Development Manager says… “We were able to achieve complete internationalization of content with Radiant, right down to the search-engine friendly internationalized URLs.”

Special thanks to the Digital Pulp development team – Justin, Josh, Dave and Erika as well as Doner Advertising’s interactive group. Amazing team effort and job well done… Thank You!

Continuing with last week’s Radiant-themed post, Sean Cribbs, started a Radiant podcast last year and chose Digital Pulp as the first subject of his interview series. He spoke with two of our developers, Josh French and John Bachir, about how we use Radiant. The interview is on the long and technical side, so it’s probably more interesting for the developers in the audience.

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There’s a good interview over on RailsInside.com with Sean Cribbs, lead developer of Radiant, one of the CMSes that we use at Digital Pulp. Even though the post is from August of last year, he provides a good overview of Radiant’s raison d’être and his history with the project.

In the interview, Sean is kind enough to give DP a shout-out – he helped us during our initial Radiant project, the dynamic duo of Redken.com and RedkenSalon.com. He also mentions the inaugural Radiant Sprint Weekend, a two-day developer event that was held that October. Josh French, our lead developer (and Radiant core team member), and Justin Blecher, our Web Development Manager, attended the event, traveling down to North Carolina to meet other members of the Radiant developer community and had an absolute blast.

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