At the Nederlands Uitburo we've recently migrated from an 'old' CMS (based on Coldfusion and a relation database) to a new setup which is basen on several different elements.

One of these elements is data storage with MongoDB. This is a system that is different from traditional databases. In a traditional database data is stored with a relation between objects. In many cases these objects are the actual tables, and is the relation stored in the same table or in a separate relation-table.

Today at work we've had a discussion about implementing people, organisations and places in to our system. Big whoop one would say, but the problem with modelling this information is that, one would model a person as well as a group of persons (organisation) define relations between them define unique locations as well as general locations for both cases. Hard to model if you think about it, this fact is confirmed by the fact that not many applications have modelled it correctly.

Recently Yahoo released the 3th version of their Yahoo User Interfaces (YUI). The reason i'm bringing this up is because of their CSS libraries.

They've done a bunch of research on cross-platform and cross-browser web designing and came up with an library of CSS files. This library resolves most problems where web designers struggle with. For example, it's for web designers a hassle to create a cross-browser website that has exact the same look and feel.

After a couple of day's being (accidently) offline, i've managed to complete redesign my old theme and created a new one. It's needs several tweeks, but this is the general idea.

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