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Radiant CMS is a great content management system. It’s Rails, it’s simple … in fact it is so simple that you are bound to be missing some basic features once you start implementing your web site.

This is by design. Radiant has a fantastic infrastructure for extensions, and rather than imposing a lot of advanced functionality making the software harder to get started with for everyone, it lets each developer make his or her own choices.

Still, even with the official extension registry it can be hard to navigate the many extensions out there. Many people have asked me what I recommend for just getting basics such as reordering, image upload and menu generation. There is no final answer to that question, but this article covers 10 extensions that are compatible with the newest versions of Radiant and gives you functionality you can’t live without.

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Merb is getting merged into Ruby on Rails. Together they will become Rails 3, as announced by David Heinemeier Hansson here and Yehuda Katz here.

I wish I could claim to have been playing with Merb for a while and have some real insight into the framework, but to be honest, I haven’t. I still think this a very interesting news, though, and in my opinion this can only be good news for the Rails community. Already, the brilliant Merb guys are optimizing and improving Rails, for instance this 8% speed boost in using respond_to.

So, how can we expect the the merge to affect the Rails framework we know and love? Let’s peek into the possibilities of combining these two frameworks.

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Dear friends and clients, business associates and regular blog readers.

Thank you for helping me out, thank you for doing business with me, and thank you for following my ramblings. Let’s do it all again next year!

Now that I’ve had some time to experience self-employment on my own, I’ve come to realize that there are many similarities between being an entrepreneur and being a nissemand. Both is hard, but when and if you reach the happy ending, everything will be good. As a Christmas greeting especially for you, I’ve recorded a song about just that :)

I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

All the best,
Casper