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Joomla 1.5.4 Release [Naiki] |
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The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.4 [Naiki]. This is a normal maintenance release which includes a few low to moderate security issues, many bug fixes, and several very nice improvements. It has been a little over ten weeks since Joomla! 1.5.3 was released on April 24, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community containing the latest bug fixes and minor enhancements. |
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Drupal Founder Earns $7 Million in VC Funding |
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Drupal's founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million in venture capital funding. (Apparentl the new name is meant to refer to "aqua" and Drupal's original meaning of "drop of water").
What Will the New Company Do? In short their aim is to:
"build a company that develops a number of Drupal distributions and that offers electronic services that make Drupal easier to use and manage."
The longer version is that they have four goals:
- "First, to increase the number of people using Drupal by a factor of at least 10, if not more, in the next several years.
- Second, to invest focused attention on the software to make sure it fulfills its potential.
- Third, to build a company that respects the community, the Drupal way of doing things, and that (at the same time) can be a big commercial success.
- And finally, to build products and services that lots and lots of Drupal users will want - in order to build a successful company. We can only continue to do more and more for Drupal if we're making money. If we build stuff you want, we'll grow, which will help us invest more in Drupal. We hope it becomes a virtuous cycle."
In practical terms, the company will do things such as open a Drupal technical assistance center and build its own equivalent of Red Hat’s Linux network, which the older company uses for jobs like distributing automatic updates and upgrades.
*Full News : Alledia |
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Recently Movable Type Community at movabletype.org just announced 1 of important thing in CMS industries. It is Movable Type will be Open Source supporter.
here is the detail of the announcement
As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.
Just want the details and downloads? Skip to the bottom. But you might like the story of how we got here.
Like many of us on the team, some of you have been waiting for this moment for years. For a business, an open source license affects boring things like how a product is created, updated, and distributed. But the open source movement has always been about something more important: Freedom. With a name like "Movable Type", we've always been keenly aware of the importance of freedom, as that name echoes both the birth of the printing press and the creation of independent media that an individual can control.
Our goal has always been to create the best blogging platform in the world and to put that power in the hands of as many people as possible. And we want to honor a tradition of openness that Movable Type has embodied for over six years:
Read Full Article over here |
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Krang | News, Magazine CMS layout |
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Krang is an open-source content-management system designed to publish magazine websites. It is a Perl application which uses Apache/mod_perl and MySQL, as well as numerous CPAN modules.
Krang is a large application with many features, making a compact feature list difficult to come by. Krang provides a simple story and media editing environment for magazine editors as well as a complete template development environment for web designers. On the backend, Perl programmers can customize Krang to control the data entered in the story editor as well as the way templates are used to build output. Krang was designed with flexibility and simplicity as its highest goals.
Krang has been successfully built and tested on a number of different systems. In many cases, if your particular system isn't listed, Krang can still be compiled by using a similar platform configuration. |
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Joomla! 1.5 RC3 — Codename Takriban |
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Joomla! 1.5 RC3 [codename: Takriban] is now available for download. We've had the 'Red Barchetta' release candidate, then Endelo RC (meaning development, progress ... improvement). Takriban means 'almost, nearly'. Well folks we're almost, nearly there. Stable is getting very close.
It's roughly 10 weeks since RC1 and five weeks since RC2 and thanks to valuable community feedback, there have been improvements and bug fixes. The uptake of Joomla! 1.5 has been incredible, with many people diving in to the new API and finding ways to make it sing. The current Joomla! 1.5 template competition has further fuelled interest, as has the number of 1.5 native extensions finding their way onto the Joomla! Extensions Directory . Joomla! 1.5 is really gaining momentum. |
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Joomla Search Engine Friendly Url Without mod_rewrite and htaccess |
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sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format for your site visitors, as well as for search engines. It makes use of plugins to process the various components used in a site. Plugins for VirtueMart, Fireboard, Community Builder, iJoomla Magazine, and more are included. A complete list can be found here .
Main features and advantages:
* Easy to use : a traditionnal operating mode using mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file, but also a new mode which does not require .htaccess file at all
* Fast: sh404SEF has a dual URL cache : in memory and in the database. This reduces a lot the number of queries made to the database. On this very site for instance, I have counted:
* Easy transition if your site currently has either no SEF URL, or uses standard Joomla SEF URL (URL similar to www.mysite.com/content/22/12/lang,en). If a search engine or a visitor requests a page using the old style address, because that is what is currently stored in Google or Yahoo, sh404SEF will automatically perform a 301 redirection to the new address. No need anymore to do this redirection manually in your .htaccess, no risk of damaging your search engines results.
* Works with Joomfish: translate URL and/or insert a language code. Either can be switched on or off in the backend, on a component by component basis. (tested also with the upcoming Joomfish 1.8 beta release)
* Integrated Title,Meta, Robots and language tags : automatic generation, plus manually entered tags on a URl by URL basis
* Duplicate content reduction : very few different URL for the same content. For instance, homepage will always be rewritten to www.mysite.com (or mysite.com). No more mysite.com/index.php, mysite.com/index.php?lang=en, mysite.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1, etc. Several parameters in the backend to manage Itemid if needed, but default settings work well in most cases.
* Custom plugins for main components, producing nice URLs. You'll have much control over the output of these sh404SEF plugins, as many parameters are available in the backend.
* Can use OpenSEF and SEF Advanced sef_ext plugins. No warranties, but tested on SOBI2, Bookmarks, Alphacontent and iJoomlaMagazine
* Can insert a unique numerical ID in content URL, for inclusion in services such as Google News. Can be switched on or off in the backend, for each category.
* Manage SSL switch, including using shared SSL. Very useful when using Virtuemart
* 404 errors logging. Can be turned off in the backend.
* Interface: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian (partial - looking for translator), Hungarian
*and its FREE
source : sh404SEF |
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