Packt Publishing, one of the world’s foremost publishers of Microsoft SharePoint titles, announces Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook. Written by Microsoft MVP, Ed Musters, the book and eBook is scheduled for publication in December 2011.
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Packt announce Finalists for 2011 Open Source Awards
Yesterday, Packt Publishing announced the finalists for their 2011 Open Source Award. This announcement signals the start of the next stage where the finalists are now open to public vote, which lasts until October 31.
Not all the categories in the award are content management related, but if you have an interest in open source I think you'll find each one of the finalists have a great story to tell. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order across all the categories, are as follows:
Open Source CMS Award
- Drupal
- Joomla!
- mojoPortal
- Plone
- SilverStripe
Open Source Business Applications
- Magento
- NopCommerce
- OpenCart
- PrestaShop
- SugarCRM
Most Promising Open Source Project
- Chamilo
- FLOW3
- ImpressPages
- Nette Framework
- Seo Panel
Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries
- FoneMonkey
- jQuery Mobile
- Min3D
- PhoneGap
- Sencha Touch
Open Source JavaScript Libraries
- Dojo Toolkit
- jQuery
- Raphael JS
- Sencha- ExtJS
- YUI Library
Open Source Graphics Software
- Airtime
- Blender
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- Krita
Users are invited to vote for their favorite open source projects across all the applicable categories and maximize their chances of winning their share of $24,000. Public votes will be combined with ratings from a panel of Judges with the winners announced on November 7.
In other Awards news, Packt has introduced subcategories to the 2011 Open Source Awards finals for the CMS and JavaScript Library categories. To read more, click here.
The 2011 Open Source Awards
This month, Packt Publishing began accepting nominations for its 2011 Open Source Awards. Breaking tradition, I've declined the invitation this year to be a member of the judging panel of this award (I've been a judge for the past four years). Regardless of my lack of participation as a judge, I still think this a great award and merits mention here on my blog.
Although there can be some controversy of declaring a "best CMS" in any award, I think Packt has done a great job in helping promote those open source applications that become a nominee for this award. I know for myself, I've found great value in the "most promising" category for identifying up and coming open source projects. In fact, I'll even argue that there are a few content management projects out there that still would be unknown if it wasn't for the Packt Open Source Award. Prize money alone given by Packt to the various open source project winners since 2006 tops $100,000.
Julian Copes from Packt announced the start of awards in late July with promise of improvements and new categories for this year's version of the Awards.
Packt will be launching its annual Open Source Awards in 2011 and once again we have worked to make the Awards bigger and better. Staying true to Packt’s values for the Awards of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding Open Source projects, we’ve introduced and altered categories to allow a greater scope of projects to take part.
We have given a lot of thought to the changes we intend to put in place, and we feel this will enable Packt to further its support for projects both new and old.
So what are the changes?
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook
Packt is delighted to announce Moodle JavaScript Cookbook, a collection of over 50 step by step recipes to enhance Moodle with JavaScript and the Yahoo! User Interface Library. Written by Alastair Hole, author of award-winning Moodle repository plugin- MrCUTE, the book explores a wide range of modern interactive features, from AJAX to Animation to create more dynamic and responsive Moodle systems.
Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform. It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. Its open source license and modular design allows any developer to create additional modules and features.
Moodle JavaScript Cookbook starts off by explaining the basics of combining Moodle with JavaScript and its various libraries. It then shows readers how to integrate Yahoo! User Interface Library with Moodle and will be the main focus throughout the book. Readers will also learn how to add validation features to their Moodle forms, retrieve and process data from external sites in a range of formats using AJAX.
New Concrete5 book
Packt is pleased to announce Concrete5 Beginner's Guide, a new book which helps developers get started with Concrete5 quickly and efficiently. Written by Remo Laubacher, this book helps readers familiarize themselves with all of Concrete5's features.
Concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. This makes the platform easy to use with a minimum of technical skills. Concrete5 also allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.
Concrete5 Beginner's Guide guides reader’s right from the installation stage to the deployment process, thereby making it the only reference that they will need to create their new Concrete5 site. Developers will also learn how to install add-ons and themes to make their website aesthetically pleasing.
New Drupal Web Services Book
Judging Five Open Source Content Management Systems
Last fall, I once again had the privilege of participating as a member of the judging panel for Packt Publishing's Open Source Awards. For the 2010 event, I participated by voting for the category of Open Source CMS Awards. In that award, the winner was declared by the panel to be CMS Made Simple, with SilverStripe as first runner up followed by MODx as second runner up.
I received a lot of inquiries asking me how and in what order did I rank the content management systems. Each of the judges on the panel, selects and ranks their top three CMS from the five included in this category. The judges are given a lot of reign for how they rank the CMS and may consider a number of factors including performance, usability, size and support from community, accessibility, ease of configuration, customization, scalability and security.
It has been my history to be transparent to all with how I rank each CMS as my vote will have some differences to those of the panel. This time around, I find myself hesitant and under personal protest with me providing information on how I ranked the five content management systems.
I question whether we're doing any good by declaring one CMS as better than another CMS. Dean Barker discussed on his blog some time ago this same uneasy feeling you get when you judge a CMS without having some reference to real world requirements. None of these content management systems would I consider losers and all of them remain worthy of future consideration. Yet, I'm disturbed that people will look at the numbers and interpret the results in a ways I never intended my rankings to be used.
My rankings for the Five Best Open Source CMS (with number one being the highest) were:
- SilverStripe
- mojoPortal
- MODx
- XOOPS and CMS Made Simple (Tie)
I'm not a firm believer in ties when it comes to ranking content management systems. Yet, this year I did just that for XOOPS and CMS Made Simple. All five content management systems that were reviewed I would consider as a candidate for a future project. None of the CMS would I consider a "last place" CMS so I refused to do so. It is also important to note that neither Drupal, Joomla!, or WordPress competed in this ranking as previous winners in this category duke it out in the Hall of Fame category.
WordPress wins Hall of Fame CMS Award
Birmingham, UK. 19 November 2010 - Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Hall of Fame Award in the 2010 Open Source Awards. Hall of Fame CMS is a category introduced to the Award last year, which features a competition between the previous winners of the Open Source CMS Award; Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress.
With this award, WordPress has gone from winning the Open Source CMS Award last year to winning the Hall of Fame CMS category, reserved for the biggest projects in the Content Management Framework industry.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg told Packt, “On behalf of the entire WordPress community I'm honored to accept this award, it's a great recognition of all the hard work and effort we've invested into WordPress. We envision a day when every man, woman, and child will be able to have an effortless beautiful website powered by Free software."
CMS Made Simple Wins the 2010 Open Source CMS Award
CMS Made Simple is the winner in Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award category of the 2010 Open Source Awards. CMS Made Simple has won this Award for the first time in the past five years, having been a presence in the Award since 2007. Packt also announced SilverStripe as first runner up with MODx in the second runners up position.
I had the privilege of sitting as a judge in this year's Open Source CMS Award category. My vote was a little different from the official award ranking where I would have placed mojoPortal, another 2010 award finalist, in a runnerup position. I may have been the only judge that may have ranked mojoPortal in the top three positions. As I've done similarly in past years, in the near future I'll post how I judged the finalists in this category. However, it is now CMS Made Simple's well deserved moment and I won't take the spotlight away from them with my personal ramblings.
Attached below is the official press release I received from Packt Publishing announcing CMS Made Simple as the winner of the Open Source CMS Award. Congratulations to all those involved int he development and support of this great open source CMS.
jQuery wins the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award
Packt Publishing announce that jQuery has won its Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Award is a new category introduced to the Open Source Awards this year, featuring libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities.
"On behalf of the entire jQuery Team, let me first say thanks to Packt Publishing for this award. I'd also like to give a huge thanks to the community of designers and developers that use jQuery daily and felt the urge to vote for jQuery as their favorite JavaScript library. We'll use this prize to further the development of the jQuery Project." Said Ralph Whitbeck, jQuery core team member.
“While jQuery hasn't undergone any radical change in the past year, the project has continued to evolve at the same frenetic pace and the 1.4 release included a wide range of small but important improvements.” Added Michael Mahemoff, Google developer advocate, HTML5/JavaScript specialist and one of the judges for the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category. “jQuery covers all bases as its performance is high priority, it is easy to use, has a huge community, great documentation, and an excellent plugin ecosystem.”
While jQuery occupied the top spot in the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries category, the other two extremely popular finalists Raphaël and Mootools tied and both projects will be awarded the first runner up position.
For detailed results on each category and more information about the Award, please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home.
Voting now open for 2010 Open Source Awards
The nomination stage is now closed and voting has begun in the 2010 Open Source Awards.
Your vote could reward an open source project with cash awards (I know the developers will appreciate that!) Registering to vote will require your name and email, and it's a single button click to cast your vote.
You can cast your vote here.
Here are the finalists, in categories:
Open Source CMS Award
Every Content Management System (CMS) that is based on one of the Open Source licenses is eligible to participate for this category.
Finalists:
CMS Made Simple
MODx
mojoPortal
SilverStripe
XOOPS
Hall of Fame CMS
This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. Since the launch of the award in 2006, only Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award, therefore, this category will feature only those three participants in 2010.
Finalists
Drupal
Joomla!
WordPress
Finalists in Packt's 2010 Open Source Awards announced
Packt Publishing recently announced the finalists in each of the categories for their 2010 Open Awards. While award categories for content management systems are still included, this year Packt is also adding additional flavors of open source projects to be judged. The new award categories include awards for most promising open source project, e-commerce applications, graphics software, and JavaScript libraries.
The Voting for the winners in each of the categories ends on November 5, 2010. This "public vote" will then be combined with votes by a panel of judges in each category to be announced on November 15, 2010.
This year, I will once again be participating as a judge for the Open Source CMS Award. I'll be in good company on this panel and have been a long time admirer of the work done by OpenSourceCMS's Scott Goodwin and CMS Wire's Dee-Ann LeBlanc. Karen Koombs, librarywebchic.net, is a new name to me and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better via this panel. There is always some controversy in these type awards on whether those projects awarded are really "the best" in their category. I plan to give my perspective on these awards in a separate blog post.
The following projects make up the finalist of the 2010 Open Source Awards:
Every Content Management System (CMS) that is based on one of the Open Source licenses is eligible to participate for this category. Vote for your favorite Open Source CMS here.
Finalists:
This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. Vote for your favorite Hall of Fame CMS here.
Finalists
Most Promising Open Source Project
This category is for all Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010. Vote for your favorite Most Promising Open Source Project here.
Finalists
- BuddyPress
- LiveStreet CMS
- Pimcore
- Tomato CMS
- WolfCMS
Only days left to nominate your Open Source project for an award
Last month, Rick Wagner posted about the launch of Packt Publishing's 2010 Open Source Awards. IT is unbelievable to me that a month has already passed since that announcement. For those that wish to nominate their open source project for this award, let this be a reminder to you that the nomination period is ending September 17.
As Rick mentioned, the 2010 Award will feature a prize fund of $24,000 with several new categories introduced. While the Open Source CMS Award category will continue to recognize the best content management system, Packt is introducing categories for the Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source E-Commerce Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries and Open Source Graphics Software. CMSes that won the Overall CMS Award in previous years will continue to compete against one another in the Hall of Fame CMS category.
I've included details below regarding the various categories in this year's Open Source Awards along with links to their respective nominating pages for each category.
The following categories make up the 2010 Open Source Awards:
Open Source CMS Award
Every Content Management System (CMS) that is based on one of the Open Source licenses is eligible to participate for this category. Nominate your favorite Open Source CMS here.
Hall of Fame CMS
This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. Since the launch of the award in 2006, only Joomla!, Drupal and WordPress have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award, therefore, this category will feature only those three participants in 2010. Vote for your favorite Hall of Fame CMS here.
Most Promising Open Source Project
Sponsored by OpenCandy, this category is for all Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010. Nominate your favorite Most Promising Open Source Project here
Open Source E-Commerce Applications
This category is reserved for the type of web applications that simplify buying and selling of products on the Internet. This will include complete e-commerce applications or frameworks designed for e-commerce. E-commerce modules or extensions to other systems can also be nominated. If a system is general purpose (like a CMS such as Drupal or Joomla!) the specific e-commerce functionality should be nominated, not the base system. Nominate your favorite Open Source E-Commerce Applications here.
Open Source JavaScript Libraries
This category is reserved for JavaScript libraries, libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionality. Nominate your favorite Open Source JavaScript Library here.
Open Source Graphics Software
This category, as the name suggests, is for all Graphic Application Software that is used for graphic design, multimedia development, specialized image development, general image editing, or simply to access graphic files. It can also include graphics libraries, which use command line references or programming language inputs to design or edit graphics. Nominate your favorite Open Source Graphic Software here.
Book for creating a working architecture for a PHP 5 based framework
PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition is a new book from Packt that teaches readers about the design choices involved in the creation of advanced web oriented PHP systems. Written by Martin Brampton , this book will help readers to implement solid mechanisms for common features such as menus, presentation services, and user management, and to build a highly functional infrastructure for web applications.
PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, allowing the production of dynamic web pages. This free software, which can be easily embedded into HTML, generally runs on a web server that needs to be configured to process PHP code and create content from it. PHP has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can also be used in standalone graphical applications.
PHP 5 CMS Framework Development - 2nd Edition starts off by discussing fundamental issues such as the automatic loading of code modules and interfaces to database systems, and goes on to explain deeper topics such as session handling, caches, and access control. Furthermore, the book also talks about the key issues that affect a wide range of specific content handlers by exploring a practical example in detail.
Using this book, developers will learn effective coding techniques through detailed explanations, along with technical functions such as handling user sessions and creating caches. Additionally, developers will learn flexible and efficient ways to support different world languages, to transform query string URLs to be more “friendly” for people and search engines, and alternative ways to deal with presentation services.
Written by a seasoned developer, this practical hands-on guide is ideal for professional PHP developers who want to learn more about web oriented frameworks and content management systems. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/php-5-cms-framework-development-second-edition/book
Nominate TomatoCMS as Most Promising Open Source Project
TomatoCMS is free and open source CMS which stands for Content Management System. Every years, there is an award for all of open source content management systems around the world held by the Packt Publishing.
In this year, TomatoCMS will participate this award in the category of Most Promising Open Source Project.
If you haven't heard about TomatoCMS, here is some places you can find the information:
- Official website: http://www.tomatocms.com
- Live Demo: http://demo.tomatocms.com
- Docs: http://docs.tomatocms.com
- Forum: http://forum.tomatocms.com
Please give TomatoCMS a change of winning this award by spending your 15 seconds to nominate it. And, please recommend your friends to do it.
The nominations will end on September 17.
How to nominate TomatoCMS
It is very easy to nominate. Just go to http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-most-promising-open-source-project, then:
- Enter TomatoCMS to the Name of project field
- Enter http://www.tomatocms.com to the URL of project
- Put your name and your email (please use real email address) to Your name and Your email fields, respectively.
- Finally, don't forget to press the Submit button.
Please help TomatoCMS win this award. The nomination only takes you 15 seconds!
The top 5 nominations will be chosen to the voting round.
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