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Introducing the First Silverlight Powered .NET CMS

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By .netdan - Posted on 17 August 2009

Launched recently is the new .NET CMS from Media Courtyard, currently in its second beta stage and due for final release over the coming months.

What makes this .NET CMS stand out is its use of the new Microsoft Silverlight 3 plugin which gives content editors an easy to use WYSIWYG interface.

The beta version can be freely downloaded and installed on a shared server to keep costs low.  In terms of features it has all the usual CMS functionality such as page metadata, indexed search, dynamic news/rss generation, membership and a whole lot more.

The beta version and documentation can be found at www.mediacourtyard.com.

Coming soon: Wordpress 2.8

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By Bryan - Posted on 03 June 2009

Wordpress 2.8, currently under development as a beta, is expected to be completed and released in a week or two. Until then, you can check out some of the documentation at wordpress.org to find all of the new goodies being added to this latest version of the blogging software.

Some of the highlights for Wordpress 2.8 include:

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Dashboard widgets can be arranged in up to four columns
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages
  • Theme Browser and Installer
  • Ability to add Custom Headers
  • Configurable Views on Management Pages

For screenshots and a review of Wordpress 2.8 check out the informative ariticle written by Keith Dsouza and available at Weblog Tools Collection.

Features to expect in Geeklog 1.6

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By Bryan - Posted on 04 May 2009

Geeklog, an open source blogging application, just went into its first beta. This release incorporates some of the work done in projects implemented during the 2008 Google Summer of Code.

New features and improvement you can expect in Geeklog 1.6.0 Beta 1 include:

  • Site migration support and easier plugin installation, by Matt West
  • Improved search, by Sami Barakat
  • Comment moderation and editable comments, by Jared Wenerd
  • A new plugin to produce proper sitemap.xml files, by mystral-kk
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

The Geeklog beta is available for download at the projects official site.

Development milestone for Geeklog 1.5

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By Bryan - Posted on 05 May 2008

The release of Geeklog 1.5.0 Beta 1 by the Geeklog Team marked a new milestone for the open source blogging system. Although the software is still in development, Geeklog's developers hope to release the final version of Geeklog 1.5 on May 26th. The end of May marks the beginning of the coding phase for Google's Summer of Code 2008. To mark the occasion, Geeklog is highlighting the work done by students participating in last year's Summer of Code that is going into this new release. How cool is that!

Changes found in Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during the 2007 Google Summer of Code:

  • New user-friendly install script
  • New Configuration Graphical User Interface
  • New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol