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Welcome to the personal home page of Kyle P. Johnson. I am a Web developer, designer, photographer, writer as well as outdoors and music enthusiast. I also work on a few WebOS mobile apps named Parafoil, and DailyBurn.

I'm a Web developer and sudo designer living in downtown Seattle Washington. I work full time for Seattle's Children's Hospital the 8th ranked Children's Hospital according to U.S News & World Report. I lead development of Web sites and applications using and promoting best practice Web standards.

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Hacking a Better Ektron II

UPDATE: Since this was posted they have released a another version (8.01) that includes some of the things talked about here.

Several weeks back I wrote about the content management system Ektron, in a post titled Hacking a Better Ektron.  When I wrote that I was generally speaking towards issues with the product that are defects or weaknesses. I had more thoughts that I wanted to speak to that are more the 10,000 foot view rather than individual problems which there are many.

With that said, I am sure this and the other post will come across as just beating on Ektron and CMS400 as an unhappy client, however my intent is not that.  Rather it is the continuous improvement of the product as I think it is a pretty powerful product despite it's misgivings.  I have for the most part enjoyed working with the product and think it could be a whole lot more.

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