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YikeSite – a brand new rails based CMS solution launched this afternoon. I just got back from the launch party, and they had great cake!

YikeSite offers the best of both worlds. It’s simple enough for the technically challenged to log in and edit their website, but also offers advanced customization functions and a theme API for the more technically astute.

Jeff Ward who is the president of Animikii, and the chief brain behind the YikeSite project was recently interviewed by The Web 2.0 Show. If you’re interested in listening to what Jeff had to say about the project and the development process, head on over and download the MP3.

I recently worked with Jeff and Animikii to design and code the public website and default template for YikeSite. It was really awesome to work with them, especially on such a new and cool project.

If you’re looking to start up an easy to maintain website, or want to get your clients using something they can understand, give YikeSite a shot.

People emailing me over the past couple of days may have had their messages rejected. My domain registration expired two days ago, and I wasn’t notified to renew it. Everything should be back up and working now, sorry for the outage!

Please try resending your messages.

If you’re in the vicinity of Vancouver Island on August 22nd, come along to the web posse meeting at 6:30pm at Swans in Victoria.

This month Jim Rutherford will be presenting on Adobe Flex and the surrounding technologies.

I had the chance to grab a beer with Jim last week and he gave me an insight into the world of Flex, very interesting stuff.

Here’s the skinny from betterwebposse.com.

See you there!

The new iMac is looking very tempting.

According to the official specs however, it isn’t thinner. Take a look at the old dimensions compared with the new.

Just saying… everyone is going on about how thin they’re supposed to be. Even Steve Jobs said:

“[The new iMac is] Really thin. You’ll get your hands on it in a minute, but they’re appreciably thinner.”

What gives?