Opensource CMS provider Silverstripe was chosen as the Main platform to host the democratic national convention website. This convention runs from August 25-28. Due to Silverstripe being such an easy to implement and update system, it was chosen as their primary platform. Way to go guys. We’re going to do an article in the next coming days with Sigurd Magnusson to discuss his thoughts on how it was used and the challenges it presented.
In the interim, you can check out the video here Silverstripe powers National Democratic Convention website
If you haven’t heard of Bitnami yet then you are missing out. It’s an awesome new website that lets you download one package that contains everything you need to start a CMS including all dependencies..
Let’s say for instance you want to setup and install Drupal.. Bitnami has Drupal bundled with Mysql, PHP, Apache and every other dependency in one quick and easy to install package. No effort required.
Bitnami Stacks are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X and won’t interfere with any other software you have installed.
Check them out, it’s an amazing new service and I wish them all the best.
Today we’re going to review PHP Fusions’ latest release: Core Edition 7. This is an interesting release and has been long awaited as version 6 has consistently been in the running for the PacktPub CMS awards that are held every year. I’m very eager to see what kind of improvements have been made. Let’s examine some of the changes since version 6.
This is just a teeny number of the changes, there is a nice feature comparison available here:
http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/infusions/features/index.php
Let’s take a look at this new offering shall we?
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Thank you to Tom Freeman of 18a Productions for bringing SimpleCMS to my attention. I’ve listed in on our cms listings page. Here’s a brief outline:
SimpleCMS makes adding new pages and updating existing pages on your website about as simple as you could possibly imagine. If you are looking for a complicated Content Management System then SimpleCMS probably isn’t for you. We’ve taken out anything remotely complicated and reduced all the options to only the most essential. All this means that the important business of updating your website is quick and easy.
The long awaited PHP-Fusion 7 has been released. This is an excellent cms that has been in the running during the packt pub awards consistently. Read more for the details.
Magnolia 3.6 has been released. This edition is touted to be 10 times faster than previous releases. Some of the features include: dramatically improved back-ups and caching and publishing of content items across multiple Magnolia sites.
The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.6 [Vusani]. This is a quick turnaround security release to address a high level security issue and it is recommended all users upgrade immediately.
For more information about this exploit, click here to visit the Joomla Security Blog.
Version 0.9.3 of FrogCMS has been released.
The major alteration to Frog CMS 0.9.3 was the removal of comments from the core to a plugin. With that complete, bugs stomped, and other enhancements and fixes in place, this has now been made the current release. As always, you can grab it from the download page. With this release, Frog CMS is now available under the GNU Affero General Public License, which replaces the previous MIT license. See the license.txt file for further details.
The major alteration to Frog CMS 0.9.3 was the removal of comments from the core to a plugin. With that complete, bugs stomped, and other enhancements and fixes in place, this has now been made the current release. As always, you can grab it from the download page.
With this release, Frog CMS is now available under the GNU Affero General Public License, which replaces the previous MIT license. See the license.txt file for further details.
license.txt
Anybody know whats going on with e107? There’s been nothing for ages on their site and no new releases in quite a while. If you have some insider info, let me know.
Drupal 6.4 and Drupal 5.10, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.
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