Bryan Ruby

Bryan

Ruby

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20 years 7 months

About

Bryan Ruby is owner and writer for socPub and Gen X Living, he also founded the original site CMS Report in 2006. He recently retired as an information technologist and former meteorologist for the National Weather Service. Despite a history of writing for niche blogs, his interests are eclectic and includes family, camping, bicycling, motorcycling, hiking, and listening to music.

Additional websites Bryan writes for include his own blog and on Medium. Bryan can also be found on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and LinkedIn.

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Preserving CMS Report: Why We Are Transitioning to a Permanent Archive

6 months ago By Bryan Ruby

Digital spaces, much like the physical ones we inhabit, have seasons. For the past 20 years, this website has been a labor of love, a digital home for ideas, and a platform for so many content management related articles that I never could have imagined when I hit "publish" on our first few post. However, today I am sharing the news that we have decided to transition this site into a permanent archive.

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INFOTECH Pub, We Hardly Knew Ye

2 years ago By Bryan Ruby

Last year at this time, we quietly introduced a new website called INFOTECH Pub. It was an effort to see if there was enough interest in a website focused on information technology much in the same way we've seen interest in socPub and CMS Report. Well, the short answer is no.

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Drupal 10 and the socPub Family of Websites

2 years ago By Bryan Ruby

During the past seven days I've been upgrading our websites from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10. There are four of them which includes socPub, CMS Report, INFOTECH Pub, and After Work Pub. While one is never quite done with the work, we're quickly moving from the upgrade back to the maintenance phase of these website. As the dust settles down it will soon be time to start focusing on the content and presence of these websites.

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The Beginning of CMSReport.com

20 years ago By Bryan Ruby

The following was submitted on our sister site, Like that Idea on December 21, 2005.

For awhile now, I've wanted to build a Website focused on reporting today's news in the world of content management systems (CMS). In simple terms, a CMS is a system used for storing, managing, organizing, and displaying content. There are all kinds of CMS out there, with one that you're most likely familiar with, the Web CMS (we use one here at Like that Idea). While a CMS is more than just software, among the computer techies it is usually the software that is talked about most.