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I’m a Obamaniac so I think this is way cool.  At least some parts of barackobama.com are powered by Blue State Digital.

Blue State Digital uses ExpressionEngine as the content manager in all installations.  As you know, ExpressionEngine is a Product of EllisLab built from CI.

CI just got a lot more attractive to me.

Linuxamp are you saying if Mccain would use CI you wouldn’t ??? Who says either of them knows the difference between CI and Zend or Django 😉

Who says either of them know anything that’s on their websites? 😛

I assure you, they can both tell you exactly where the donate button is on their respective websites.

But do they know what is behind the donate button? 😛

But do they know what is behind the donate button?

I guess… large pockets?
😛

wow the whole obama site is built on expression engine?

wow the whole obama site is built on expression engine?

I’m not sure if the whole site is powered by ExpressionEngine but the main site barackobama.com and my.barackobama.com appear to be.

From http://www.bluestatedigital.com/casestudies/archives/obama_for_america_2008/

Obama for America is using the BSD Online Tools Suite to build and manage a sophisticated fundraising and constituency development operation on the Web in support of Senator Obama’s Presidential campaign.

From http://www.bluestatedigital.com/pages/tools-content/:

Every installation of the BSD Online Tools includes Expression Engine, a versatile database-driven content management system from Ellis Labs.

The guy behind Obama’s whole web campaign (the social network, his Youtube, Twitter account, etc) was one of the original Facebook programmers.

The guy behind Obama’s whole web campaign (the social network, his Youtube, Twitter account, etc) was one of the original Facebook programmers.

Wow.  It’s obvious that his campaign has major geek power but I didn’t realize he had one of the main FB guys working for him.

I just hope he continues to stay social and communicate with the public when (not if) he becomes president.

I wonder if there’s anything to the fact that Obama’s site uses PHP, while McCain has ASP.NET.

ASP.NET, huh.  I would have guessed COBOL.

I find it amusing here that noone mentioned that this guy linked to Obama’s Admin login panel??? Strange. Something like is usually private.  😊

I find it amusing here that noone mentioned that this guy linked to Obama’s Admin login panel??? Strange. Something like is usually private.  😊

I linked to the admin login panel because it clearly says “Blue State Digital” on the banner.  Anyone who knows the CMS also knows the paths for the admin and login pages.  For example the Drupal login page /user/login and the admin page /admin are also well known.  As long as the passwords are strong and the CMS is well designed you shouldn’t need to make these pages private; it will only inconvenience authorized users.

Why should it be private and what exactly do you mean by private?  Are you suggesting security through obscurity like changing the path from the default?  Or are you suggesting adding http auth on top of the CMS authentication? (A single strong password is just as good as two strong ones and better than two weak ones)  Or are you suggesting whitelisting the IPs of Obama’s headquarters and the administrator’s home static IPs?  (Which also prevents authorized from connecting from most remote locations)  The last one being the only suggestion which adds any real protection.

I see no one didn’t argue with the last post, lol. I hate when people preach STO (Security Through Obscurity)