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Video on Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6

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By Bryan - Posted on 29 November 2009

There are very few shopping carts or ecommerce platforms that I'm willing to talk about on a blog for content management systems. For whatever reason, I have always had interest in the Magento Ecommerce platform. The following is a video on the features included in the Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6.

phpBB 3.0.6

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By Bryan - Posted on 19 November 2009

The open source Web forum application, phpBB, is available in a new version. phpBB 3.0.6 introduces not only bug fixes and stability improvements but also some major new features.

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB "Fast and Furrious" 3.0.6 package. This release fixes numerous bugs, introduces some major features, as well as improves stability and performance. Furthermore, the internal updater has been updated to detect and solve most conflicts, resulting in a reduction of necessary manual interaction by administrators.

Please note that we urge you to update. phpBB 3.0.6 fixes bugs being quite important for a smooth operation of your forums. With this release our support team will only give support for phpBB 3.0.6, updates to phpBB 3.0.6 and conversions to phpBB 3.0.6. Submissions to our trackers for older versions will not be accepted, please make sure you update/upgrade before you submit a bug report.

Some of the new features that have been implemented in phpBB 3.0.6 include:

  • Better spam control using improved captcha options and backported 3.2 captcha plugins:
    • Classic and GD CAPTCHA
    • reCaptcha
    • Q&A CAPTCHA
    • 3D Wave

New Zend Book for developing PHP web applications

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By Priyanka13 - Posted on 25 October 2009

Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development is a new book from Packt, which will help users design, develop, and deploy feature-rich PHP web applications using Zend. Written by Keith Pope, this book is an example-driven tutorial that takes readers through the process of building Model-View-Controller-based web applications. It will allow them to create a real-life storefront application from design to deployment and explore all the major aspects of the Zend Framework.

Zend is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. It has a flexible architecture that helps build modern web applications and web services easily. It provides an easy-to-use high-quality component library that is designed to be used the way developers want, without requiring the use of the whole framework.

Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development will make it easy for developers to get started and produce a powerful and professional looking website. It covers the major Zend Framework components as well as throwing light on the best practices and design issues faced when building complex MVC applications.

Opening up with SharePoint and Google Sites

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By Bryan - Posted on 25 September 2009

Barb Mosher has written a great summary at CMS Wire on Google's new Sites API which allows content owners to move content in and out Google Sites. As Mosher points out, this new API and some additional tools will allow content owners to "pull stuff out of SharePoint and place it into Google Sites" which is sure to bring "real heat between Redmond and Mountain View" in their quest for customers.

Until now, content and data inside Google Sites stayed inside Google Sites. And there was no easy way to migrate additional content and data into it. With the introduction of the Google Sites Data API, that has changed.

The API support almost all of the functionality currently available within Google Sites including:

  • Retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages and content.
  • Upload/download attachments.
  • Review the revision history across a site.
  • Display recent user activity.

Which brings us to the point. With these new capabilities, you can now not only move data out of Google Sites, but you can move data into Google Sites and possibly out of other similar applications, like SharePoint.

Whether Google Sites and the new API will be a threat to Microsoft and SharePoint is questionable. But, once again I think these type of events emphasize that those content management systems that get the most attention from us these days are those applications that open up and work with other third party applications.

There is a reason why such topics as CMIS, open source, and API are in the spotlight with folks interested in content management. No one really wants to be stuck with a vendor that doesn't play well with others. It just strategically isn't a good idea to have your content controlled by a single vendor, so why do it? I suppose I'm rhetorically asking that question to both customers and vendors.