MODX Adds Microsoft SQL Server Support to Revolution 2.1

MODX, LLC, the company behind the open source MODX content management platform has released a major update to its flagship MODX Revolution with version 2.1. This release extends MODX’s reach beyond the traditional Open Source server infrastructure and into the Microsoft channel by adding support for Microsoft SQL Server.

"Now you can run MODX Revolution on a full Microsoft stack including Microsoft SQL Server. This is a tremendous opportunity for MODX Solution Partners in being able to sell into environments dominated by commercially licensed software and servers," said Ryan Thrash, CEO of MODX, LLC. "Microsoft shops should also realize major benefits from our software: an agile web content platform, total creative freedom and a reliable upgrade path between releases. They get this backed by a solid company with Commercial Support and an SLA, making for a very boardroom-friendly choice."

IDC reported Microsoft Windows leads in server share with 48.9% of revenue in Q1 2010. Microsoft invested companies can benefit from the most flexible open source content management platform while working with the servers and infrastructure already in place, leveraging existing in-house talent, expertise and tools. This leads to cost savings, mitigates risk and delivers faster ROIs by eliminating platform shifts.

SilverStripe 2.4.2 Released

SilverStripe released its second update to the 2.4 codebase. SilverStripe 2.4.2 addresses two potential security vulnerabilities and a number of additional bug fixes. However, this version also contains some improvements also worth mentioning.

SilverStripe 2.4.2 contains some significant improvements for supporting SilverStripe on Windows.

SilverStripe 2.4.2 offers increased confidence over past versions for running our software on Windows OS when using SQL Server as the database. Previously, you had to run SilverStripe on Linux for all unit tests to pass. As a result of fixing bugs and unit tests, all SilverStripe unit tests now pass when running on Windows. The work includes fixing full-text search for the SQL Server database module, fixing windows file path issues along with numerous other bug fixes for the Windows platform done in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1.

Additional improvements in SilverStripe 2.4.2 include:

Other minor improvements

Allows Apache to provide better error pages
Improved unit testing reports
Fixed the installer logic for SQLite database

SilverStripe 2.4.x is the recommended version of SilverStripe CMS to use on production websites. The latest version of SilverStripe can be downloaded from SilverStipe.org. For additional information on SilverStripe 2.4.2, please see the original release announcement.

Learn How to Implement Shopping Cart

Create a real-life storefront application from design to deployment and explore all the major aspects of the Zend Framework. This Chapter helps readers in creating the shopping cart Model, Controller, and Views. Read more about this chapter here: http://www.packtpub.com/files/4220-zend-...

Learn to Build Flash Applications with New Drupal Book

Packt is pleased to announce a new book that teaches users to build dynamic, content-rich Flash CS3 and CS4 applications for Drupal 6. Written by Content Management expert, Travis Tidwell, Flash with Drupal helps users to integrate Flash applications with Drupal CMS.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Users will learn about the evolution of a real Flash application designed for Drupal, and will be taken through a step-by-step approach to create and customize an embedded Flash application within Drupal. They will also learn about the important modules and asynchronous programming techniques that will make it easier to work with Flash in Drupal. The reader will also learn to build a custom voting service and create a Flash-driven 5-star voter for Drupal using the popular FiveStar module.

New features in Nucleus CMS 3.5

The Nucleus CMS core development team has released Nucleus CMS v3.5. Although Nucleus CMS contains a lot of bug fixes, it's the new features that will catch your attention.

Highlights of the new features in this release include two new plugins in the core system:

NP_Text eases the translation of Skins
NP_SecurityEnforcer improves the security of the core.
The first step to an universal SQL API is done. This should allow easier use of other back-end database engines, like pdo or sqlite, but only MySQL will be officially supported in 3.5.
Some changes are made to make Nucleus CMS compatible to PHP5.3.

There are no urgent security fixes in this release so that you have not to hurry up. The Nucleus CMS core developers still recommends that site owners update their software so that your blog software is up to date and work with all plugins.

A list of all the new features in Nucleus CMS 3.50 is available from the original release announcement found at the Nucleus CMS site.

How-to import Drupal 6 content into Wordpress 2.7

SocialCMSBuzz: "After looking around the web reading various articles on the subject of Drupal to Wordpress conversion most of which are unfortunatley now outdated and with some trial and error we eventually figured out the MYSQL code and process needed to acheive a basic Drupal 6 to Wordpress 2.7 site migration. In this article we will describe the steps needed to import your Drupal 6 website into a Wordpress v2.7 install."

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Internetnews.com: PostgreSQL 8.2 Closes The Gap

"PostgreSQL developers expect that the new version will drive such migrations /from Oracle, IBM DB2, or Microsoft SQL/ because of the improved performance, features and administration capabilities. They anticipate an overall performance gain of between 10 percent and 20 percent for most applications.

PostgreSQL 8.2 is also taking aim at the open source MySQL database."

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