In keeping with tradition, the following are seven articles that were posted here at CMSReport.com and received less attention than I had hoped. Either the reader didn't show up to view the article or there was little discussion on the subject matter. I'll let you be the judge on whether these articles deserved the obscurity they received in 2008.
Away from this blog, I've been putting a lot of energy into how best to work with social software in larger organizations (Enterprise 2.0) behind the firewall. My professional attention has been shifting away from using Web content management systems, social publishing systems, and other collaboration tools on the Internet. I really think the next big advancements and challenges for web technologies will not be on the World Wide Web,
but the less explored intranet ran by medium and larger size organizations.
In one form or another, I've been involved on both sides of the firewall in my organization. Ten years ago it was a huge challenge for
organizations and businesses to figure out how best to utilize the Internet to meet their business needs. As challenging as I saw the Internet for my own organization, I'm convinced there are greater challenges on the intranet side of the house. For the most part, we all can see what the others are doing with their Internet Web servers, but few of us get to see what other organizations do with Enterprise 2.0 behind their own firewalls.
mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 was released over the weekend. The main purpose for the release was to fix a bug in the MS SQL version of the blog that was introduced in version 2.2.8.0. Yet, one thing I've learned about mojoPortal is that in many of their bug fix releases...they almost always add some new new or enhanced features. This release is no exception.
New items in mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 that are worth mentioning include:
Yesterday, PHP-Fusion announced that someone had hacked into their site and changed the download link for PHP-Fusion Version 7.
Hello all,
We had an issue a few days ago where a malicious person gained
access to our site as a super administrator via a weak account/gained
password. They apparently changed the download link of PHP-Fusion
version 7 to spendspace and it was packaged as a .rar file.If you downloaded one of these files, please reinstall your entire site using a fresh copy from SourceForge.
While this isn't a good thing, it is a positive that PHP-Fusion disclosed the possibility that the link led to a version of PHP-Fusion that may have been maliciously changed. I can recall a number of other projects (open source and propriety) that have found their source code made vulnerable by someone intruding into their servers. What is always important to customers in these cases is disclosure and transparency. So far, PHP-Fusion seems to be doing the right thing.
However, as of this Thursday morning...it looks like PHP-Fusion's hosting company has suspended their account. At the time of this writing, there is no words given as to the reasons for the suspension. I suspect the suspension is likely to be security related. Perhaps, we'll see an announcement at SourceForge on the status of PHP-Fusion if their home site doesn't come back online soon.
Sigurd Magnusson sent us an email to let us know that "SilverStripe has now split its company and open source projects into two totally revamped and beautiful websites". The two SilverStripe websites will of course have different purposes.
Head on over to the SilverStripe.com site if you want to know more about our company and the business side of things. But if you're looking for the SilverStripe community, developer documentation, or the roadmap for the future of the product, you're in the right place [SilverStripe.org].
A couple years ago we decided to use MediaWiki for a wiki implementation at work. Wikipedia uses MediaWiki for their wiki application so we felt it was the right choice for our needs. One concern my team had was that MediaWiki didn't come with a rich text editor (no WYSIWYG).
While a number of us may be fine with using wikitext or HTML to edit our wiki pages, I believe the majority in any organization prefers to edit their pages with a friendly user interface similar to that found on their word processor. At the time, we tried a number of solutions but found neither the suggested TinyMCE or FCKeditor implementation integrated that well with mediaWiki. So for our project we settled with wikEd, an editor that still required users to work with wiki syntax but surprising a very good tool for most users.
During a lunch conversation last week with Deane Barker of Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive, I mentioned my frustrations with MediaWiki not having available a good WYSIWYG solution. Deane suggested that I look at a more recent implementation of MediaWiki plus FCKeditor. This project is being supported by the developers of FCKeditor themselves.
Earlier today, Matthew Mullenweg announced the official release of Wordpress 2.7. This new version of WordPress is a dandy with significant improvements made to the WordPress administrative interface and dashboard. The choices you now have to customizing our blogging workflow is almost endless.
While we could start reading off from the changelogs for all the new features in WordPress 2.7, It's probably just as easy to show you the video.
Radiant, a Ruby on Rails based CMS, will soon be released under version 0.7. The new version is currently available as a release candidate.
The most significant changes between Radiant 0.6.9 and 0.7 will include:
"The usability of a content management system is paramount. If authors and site owners can’t work out how to use the CMS, you’ve got nothing. The CMS can have all the functionality in the world, but usability trumps it all."
- James Robertson, Practical ways to assess CMS usability, Column Two, November 25, 2008
Fatwire Content Server 7.5, a Web content management system (WCM), was released this week. Fatwire's Content Server intends to deliver a compelling web experience by building, deploying, and managing large-scale and interactive web sites. New features in CS 7.5 include:
Site Preview: Allows business users to set up time-based versions of their website and preview what their site will look like on different future dates, including side by side preview of date-based versions. With this new tool, business users and marketers can create seasonal and time-based online campaigns with ease.