Contribute Publishing Server is still around and that is good
There has been some talk in certain higher web people mail lists recently that suggest Contribute Publishing Server is no more. Some have heard this from the sales team at the new Adobe. Just for the record, I have heard from the Contribute dev team and they assure me CPS is alive and well. Which is good.
It is good because it is CPS that makes Contribute 3 much more useful. Sure you can live without it but if you have a server end controller like CPS that allows you to access certain things through an API you can do a lot of things.
What things? Well hopefully in the next month or so CPA will be using the API and some PHP to generate RSS feeds from the stories we publish. With the news release site we actually parse mailman archives and pull them into a database. This works but only because news releases go out to a mail list. For our news stories that are featured on our new CPA page we have had to get a bit more creative.
Stories are published with Contribute 3—and we are just trying to figure out how to automate things. First we needed to get the site up and have someone maintain it. Then we can figure out how to automate certain things.
