Last week I was so frustrated with the number of steps that it took me to publish an article on my website I build a desktop publisher. Horribly site specific, it's a beauty. In a few dozen lines of code I can publish either an article or a link to my site. The brilliant Official Guide by Bob Ray and the great documentation by the MODX team made it a snip.

As a developer MODX is an A-Grade CMS, but in Revolution we had to take a few hits for the greater good. There is less control over the Manager interface as the ManagerManager plugin hasn't been implemented. As I would expect, with out feeling entitled obviously, is that the MODX developers are improving the manager interface. Sure enough, Revolution 2.2 comes with some seriously good Manager tweaks and performance upgrades.

The community has stepped upto the plate, most notably Mark Hamstra with a mobile version of the Manager Interface that is nearing finalisation. Exciting stuff.

I want what Pareto promised. I want to be able to do 80% of my work with 20% of the work. 80% of the time I log into the manager to simply post an article. I would much rather be able to do that from my iPad or Mac where the article is written.