The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are a commercial extension for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms that offers support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions consist of several OCEE modules and are available in tailor-made packages to meet functional and budgetary requirements. The OCEE Cluster package contains all available OCEE modules.
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Create feature-rich extensions using Moodle
Packt is pleased to announce its new book titled "Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook" that will help users to install and configure the best Moodle modules. Written by Michael De Raadt, this book covers many features and techniques in order to allow readers to organize their ideas and thus, to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platform.
Moodle is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. It is designed to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content. Its open source license and modular design allows developers to create additional modules and features.
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook starts off with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. It then goes on to explain an interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements. Ultimately, the book shows readers how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.
DotNetNuke Corp. Acquires Snowcovered
SAN MATEO, Calif. – August 27, 2009 – DotNetNuke Corp. (http://bit.ly/8G1w) the most widely adopted framework for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET., today announced the acquisition of Snowcovered, the premier online market for DotNetNuke modules, skins, services and related products. The union will create closer ties between the DotNetNuke platform and the Snowcovered online library of third party extensions which will enrich the DotNetNuke ecosystem and provide substantial business opportunities for independent software vendors and the users they serve.
News Highlights
- The union between Snowcovered and DotNetNuke Corp. benefits the DotNetNuke commercial ecosystem by increasing access to a robust marketplace where users can access over 6,000 DotNetNuke framework extensions available for success. Snowcovered has successfully established substantial monthly web traffic to its site, driving demand for DotNetNuke modules and skins and providing DotNetNuke software ISVs with visibility and business opportunities.
- As a subsidiary of DotNetNuke Corp., the Snowcovered business model will remain the same, allowing independent software vendors to post, sell, and support their software extensions online.
Security issues in third party TYPO3 extensions
It's not too often that you see notices from the TYPO3 group on security issues related to their CMS framework. That's why their notice last week about various security issues with several third party TYPO3 extensions caught my attention.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the following third party TYPO3 extensions:
- Virtual Civil Services (civserv)
- Modern Guestbook / Commenting system (ve_guestbook)
- CWT Community (cwt_community)
- FrontEnd MP3 Player (fe_mp3player)
- Search In Tables (fesearchintable)
- Content Search (gst_contentsearch)
- Multilingual Alias (multilingual_alias)
- Myth Repository (myth_repository)
- References database (t3references)
Further information on the security issues can be found at TYPO3.org.
Develop Joomla! 1.5 Extensions with New Book
Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development is a new book from Packt that helps users to program their own Joomla! extensions. Written by Joseph LeBlanc, and tested against the final release of Joomla! 1.5, this book helps create extensions with PHP using built-in HTML and JavaScript functions.
Joomla! is the world's hottest open-source content management system, packed with various features. Its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible, allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated.
This book will help users understand the Model-View-Controller design pattern used in components. Using HTML functions, programmers will be able to maintain a consistent look and reduce repetitive code. They will be able to manage customized Google Maps using the MooTools JavaScript framework. They will also be able to create toolbars, list screens with pagination, and menu items.
Mailbag: Joomlatools and Nooku
Amit from Joomlatools contacted me to introduce me to their new company as well as their new product, Nooku. The introduction is somewhat ironic given the fact that Johan already contacted me last Spring. I have also had a link to Joomlatools' blogs in my Blogroll for a number of months!
However, it sounds like they're doing exciting stuff over at Joomlatools that should make quite a bit of the Joomla! community happy. Nooku looks like a great product and the extension/framework should help Joomla! 1.5 users create multi-lingual websites more easily. I wish the best for Joomlatools.
The following is a copy of the email Amit sent to CMS Report.
Hello,
We wanted to introduce ourselves to you & the Joomla community. We are a new company called Joomlatools, focused on building applications for Joomla users that want professional, extendable open source extensions. All of our extensions will be built from the ground up with lots of user feedback, tried and tested by real customers and professionally written by folks who helped create Joomla!
Our team consists of both experienced Joomla developers (Johan Janssens - major contributor to Joomla 1.5, Mathias Verraes - major contributor to DOCman and Shayne Bartlett - major contributor to LETTERman) and other open source contributors (Laurens Vandeput - Eclipse, Joomla) and Amit Shah (co-founder and VP Business Development of OpenX).
Our first application is called Nooku and is focused on helping Joomla users create multi-lingual websites easily, with integrated user workflow and translation management. Nooku fits seamlessly into Joomla 1.5 and is both an extension and a framework. To fund the application development needed to create this extension we have invited members of the Joomla community to contribute funds to employ our team of developers.
Jeff Potts: ScribeFire’s blogging client is sweet
"I am totally digging ScribeFire. It’s a Firefox extension that lets me write blog posts without leaving the web page I’m on. It can post to any blog server that can speak XML-RPC."
Discussing Joomla!
One of the neat things about managing a site like CMSReport.com is that discussion on a topic can happen when you least expected. This is exactly what happened in the comment section of a rather benign post regarding a Latin American University's use of the content management system, Joomla! I was thanked by Open Source Community's Amy Stephen, also a Joomla! user, for posting an excerpt from one of the Joomla! working group blogs. Instead of a "you're welcome" I decided to ask some questions that have been puzzling me about the Joomla! community for some time.
Instead of hiding that discussion, I've attached the comments so far in the conversation. I'd really like to continue the discussion further with other Joomla! users. I think this is a good discussion for anyone like me who is trying to get to know Joomla! and its community better. Before I continue, let me share with you two personal motives for why I want to strike a conversation about Joomla!
- I'm considering using Joomla! for a project. While I've installed and played with Joomla! many times (mostly 1.0.x though recently 1.5), I've never actually used Joomla! for a live production site.
- Converstations with Joomla! user now using Drupal. While attending a recent Drupal Meetup, I spent my time talking about Joomla! and SharePoint. There was a new Drupal user at the meeting who was frustrated with the short-comings of Joomla! and was beginning to migrate over to Drupal. However, he still spoke highly of Joomla! and its community. It was an interesting one-on-one converstation in that while he wanted to like Drupal, he didn't quite get Drupal. It struck me that while I have wanted to like Joomla!, I have never really understood Joomla!. I left that Drupal meetup wanting to know more about Joomla!
So there is there is my motive for wanting to have more discussion about Joomla! In a nutshell, I want to like Joomla!, I just don't quite get it. Let's continue the discussion we've already started and help more non-Joomla! users like me out.
Create Joomla! 1.5 Extensions with new Book
Technical IT publishing company Packt, has published Learning Joomla! Extension Development, a book that helps create Joomla! 1.5 extensions with PHP. Written by professional Joomla! Extension Developer Joseph L. LeBlanc, this book gives programmers their first step in customizing and extending the features of Joomla! through custom PHP development. For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com/Joomla-Extensions/book
While Joomla! is packed with features, its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible, allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated. Shopping carts, forums, social networking profiles, job boards, and real estate listings are all examples of extensions developers have written for Joomla!. All of these can run off one Joomla! site, while only one database, template, and core need to be maintained. When you build an extension to Joomla!, it will inherit the look and feel of the overall site. Any type of program that can be coded in PHP is a potential component waiting to be written!
Walk through the development of complete Joomla! components and modules with this tutorial for PHP programmers. Written for Joomla! version 1.5 and tested against pre-final releases, this book will get programmers started with coding professional looking extensions as quickly as possible.
The book builds example extensions to create, find, promote, and cross-link restaurant reviews. A component will handle common data items seen across all reviews such as price range, reservations, cuisine type, and location. Visitors will be able to search and sort through the reviews; adding their own criteria to zero in on their dining options for the evening. Modules will highlight new reviews, drawing the attention of frequent visitors. Finally, plugins will pull pieces of the reviews into feature articles and others will integrate them into searches.
Press Release: NeoJoomla - A new version of recruitment component : NeoRecruit is available
NeoJoomla is happy to announce the release of version 1.4 of recruitment component: NeoRecruit!
NeoRecruit 1.4 allows a clearer posting of your job offers. The new module NeoRecruit Categories (supplied with the component) will display the categories tree, from which you could access directly the offers of a specific category.
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