The ProcessWire team is thrilled to announce the latest release of ProcessWire, version 2.2. This is the third major open source release of ProcessWire CMF/CMS and includes a broad range of great additions and improvements like multi-language support, repeater (matrix) fields, multi-site support and more.
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Cookbook for combining PHP & Ajax as a powerful platform for web applications
Packt is delighted to announce the release of PHP Ajax Cookbook, a collection of over 60 recipes with step-by-step directions to build SEO-friendly websites using standard Ajax tools.
Training courses to make switching to OpenCms 8 easy
The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.
OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.
All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.
WordPress 3.2: Features and Video
This week, WordPress 3.2 became available to the public. According to Matt Mullenweg, "the focus for this release was making WordPress faster and lighter". While the new version of WordPress doesn't bring any revolutionary changes to blogging, it does move this CMS forward with confidence and style.
New features and changes in WordPress 3.2 include:
- A refreshed dashboard design that tightens the typography, design, and code behind the admin.
- The introduction of a HTML 5 theme,Twenty Eleven, that modern browser users will appreciate.
- A "just write" distraction-free writing or "zen mode" user interface.
- Minimum PHP version is now 5.2.4. PHP 4 is no longer supported.
- Minimum MySQL database version is now 5.0.
- Internet Explorer (IE6) and other outdated browsers are no longer supported.
As has been customary ever since I remember, WordPress 3.2 is also given the code name of one of the Jazz artists greats, this time "Gershwin". Enjoy the video, found below the fold, introducing WordPress 3.2.
Codelobster PHP Edition
Free PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor (IDE) - Codelobster PHP Edition
For valuable work on creation of sites you need a good comfortable editor necessarily. There are many requiring paid products for this purpose, but we would like to select free of charge very functional and at the same time of simple in the use editor - Codelobster PHP Edition .
Let us consider some important possibilities and advantages of this program:
Packt's 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.
WordPress 3.2 plans begin to take shape
Mark Jaquith, a lead developer for Wordpress, recently posted on a WordPress developer's blog the plans for WordPress 3.2. Below are some of the changes and features Jaquith says will be on this new version of WordPress that caught my eye. My personal comments gave been added to the side.
- Faster release cycle than 3.1 - Project development the past few years must have been like molasses the past few years, because projects like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Mozilla Firefox are all promising quicker release cycles this year. They did appear to have their IE6 > IE7 "Sputnik" moment in 2010, didn't they?
- Faster and Lighter - Old code and outdated technologies are being dropped from WordPress. This move isn't just to improve performance but also also to improve the writing experience. You can expect some user experience changes here too with emphasis on "distraction free writing".
- List Tables API improvements - Finalize the API for third party use and more flexibility.
- PHP 5.2 (5.2.4, specifically) to be required - Unbelievable, I hadn't realized that WordPress hadn't dropped PHP 4 before this release. A number of open source projects already made the commitment from PHP 4 to PHP 5 a couple years ago. Oddly WordPress is "dropping the the old, not adding the new". Why wouldn't you embrace PHP 5 all the way?
- MySQL 5 to be required.- Relax on this one. I have yet to see a MySQL 5 upgrade requirement gone bad.
- Upgrade improvements - Changed-files-only upgrades can be done with zero changes to core.
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OBLIQUID releases OOOGUI CMS
OOOGUI is a dynamic CMS that lets you define your data structure (objects, relations between objects, queries on objects), and lets you create public and private HTML pages to view and modify your contents. All through a WYSIWYG interface.
OOOGUI is multilingual, manages role based permissions, and generates for you PHP and SMARTY code that you can customize on your needs.
Implementation and modification to data model, wich is one of the most time consuming and frustrating part in the lifecycle of a project, becomes a very fast process because no code has to be written nor compiled, and the CMS CRUD is automatically generated and updated, at each modification to the data model.
Also queries used in frontend are created with a WYSIWYG interface. You can create as many queries you need on the fly, and associate each one to a template for query results visualization. There is also an interface to create and modify structure layout of each web page.
Software is multilingual, with as many languages you need, and adding/removing languages is an immediate task wich can be performed in any phase of the project development. There are also views to easily find missing translations for each multilingual element.
New WordPress 3 book
WordPress 3 Complete is a new book from Packt that explores WordPress as a fully functional content management system. Written by April Hodge Silver, this book is an in-depth coverage of installation, themes, plugins, and syndication with practical explanations of all aspects of WordPress.
WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. With its versatility, it is a powerful tool that's ideal for creating blogs and websites. Users can customize the features, incorporate their own designs, and even write their own plugins with ease.
WordPress 3 Complete starts with downloading and installing the core WordPress software. It also helps to upgrade WordPress from older installations, as well as personalize and control the content of a website. By customizing themes, users will learn to manage the look and feel of their website.
Build a dynamic social networking website using Packt's new PHP 5 book
Packt is pleased to announce PHP 5 Social Networking, a new book that will help readers to create a powerful and dynamic social networking website in PHP by building a flexible framework. Written by Michael Peacock, this book will allow readers to connect and communicate with each other using communication with friends list, flexible user profiles, messages, discussions, and much more.
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