By popular request, Maxim Software Corp. now offers website hosting service to the public. The same servers that we use to host the properties of our ThotSpots Web Media division are now available to you at competitive prices. This service is being offered as a convenience to our consulting clients who seek one-stop-shopping, but is not required. As always, our software developers and website administrators will be happy to work with any website project, regardless of where it is hosted. For more information, write to info@maximsc.com.

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This is just a quick post to indicate that this blog is now registered on Technorati.

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We at Maxim Software Corporation proudly announced today our acquisition of http://www.codejacked.com, a website of productivity tips for Windows and Linux users. CodeJacked.com is the brainchild of Kyle Pott, a programmer and productivity expert who is now lending his writing skills to lifehack.org (which has to do with productivity, in general, whereas CodeJacked.com is focused on “jacking up” computer-user productivity). CodeJacked.com was briefly dormant while the sale was pending, but regular daily postings resumed last Monday.
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We’ve been working on the new site for a while. Its got a new design, and best of all, a new engine that runs it. We’ve chosen Drupal as the engine behind our site for a variety of reasons. Before we get too far into it, yes we’re still Tapestry developers. Yes we could’ve done this in Tapestry. But, the simple fact of the matter is that developing a content management system is a lot of work. Drupal is really comprehensive and though we’re not PHP developers, it didn’t take much effort to figure out how to use and deploy the system. There are still a few rough edges to work out but in all we’re talking a few hours (under 8 hours) of work getting blogging, page posting and a variety of other nifty features running. And most of that time was spent fiddling with the template and reading the Drupal documentation.

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