Not long ago I wrote that KDE 4 might produce enough changes to its look and feel to help Linux become more Mac-like. At the time, Windows Vista seemed to be trying to move in the same direction. Interestingly, someone has noted that Windows 7 now appears to be moving towards Linux's direction with the Windows desktop looking more like KDE 3.5.
The year 2008 was another great year for CMS Report. In 2008, we posted close to 500 articles to the front page. Below are the ten most read articles that were posted for the year.
Similar to last year, three of the top stories have little to do with content management systems. It seems that there is more interest in gadgets than content management systems! Hopefully CMS Report can help change that.
In keeping with tradition, the following are seven articles that were posted here at CMSReport.com and received less attention than I had hoped. Either the reader didn't show up to view the article or there was little discussion on the subject matter. I'll let you be the judge on whether these articles deserved the obscurity they received in 2008.
Away from this blog, I've been putting a lot of energy into how best to work with social software in larger organizations (Enterprise 2.0) behind the firewall. My professional attention has been shifting away from using Web content management systems, social publishing systems, and other collaboration tools on the Internet. I really think the next big advancements and challenges for web technologies will not be on the World Wide Web,
but the less explored intranet ran by medium and larger size organizations.
In one form or another, I've been involved on both sides of the firewall in my organization. Ten years ago it was a huge challenge for
organizations and businesses to figure out how best to utilize the Internet to meet their business needs. As challenging as I saw the Internet for my own organization, I'm convinced there are greater challenges on the intranet side of the house. For the most part, we all can see what the others are doing with their Internet Web servers, but few of us get to see what other organizations do with Enterprise 2.0 behind their own firewalls.
mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 was released over the weekend. The main purpose for the release was to fix a bug in the MS SQL version of the blog that was introduced in version 2.2.8.0. Yet, one thing I've learned about mojoPortal is that in many of their bug fix releases...they almost always add some new new or enhanced features. This release is no exception.
New items in mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 that are worth mentioning include:
Occasionally, I see a post that I have written as a reference in a white paper, a book, or somewhere else online. I actually started CMSReport.com as a place for me to learn more about Web content management systems and information systems. Whenever someone references CMS Report it signals that we have gone full circle where someone is also learning from me. There is not a more awesome feeling than this.
One thing I have yet to achieve is being a legitimate reference at Wikipedia. Until now! CMS Report is being referenced on the wiki page for Frog CMS.
"An objective without strategy, or a strategy without execution remains a dream."
- Dries Buytaert, Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom, "Contributing back to Drupal", Buytaert.net.
Yesterday, PHP-Fusion announced that someone had hacked into their site and changed the download link for PHP-Fusion Version 7.
Hello all,
We had an issue a few days ago where a malicious person gained
access to our site as a super administrator via a weak account/gained
password. They apparently changed the download link of PHP-Fusion
version 7 to spendspace and it was packaged as a .rar file.If you downloaded one of these files, please reinstall your entire site using a fresh copy from SourceForge.
While this isn't a good thing, it is a positive that PHP-Fusion disclosed the possibility that the link led to a version of PHP-Fusion that may have been maliciously changed. I can recall a number of other projects (open source and propriety) that have found their source code made vulnerable by someone intruding into their servers. What is always important to customers in these cases is disclosure and transparency. So far, PHP-Fusion seems to be doing the right thing.
However, as of this Thursday morning...it looks like PHP-Fusion's hosting company has suspended their account. At the time of this writing, there is no words given as to the reasons for the suspension. I suspect the suspension is likely to be security related. Perhaps, we'll see an announcement at SourceForge on the status of PHP-Fusion if their home site doesn't come back online soon.
Early Tuesday morning, Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP joined Windows Vista as available operating systems for the Dell Inspiron Mini 12. By Tuesday evening, I found myself ordering the Ubuntu version of the Mini 12 with the 6-cell battery and 80GB hard drive. Despite having installed Linux on countless systems, this will be the first time I've ordered Linux pre-installed for the client PC. I'm eager to find out how well Dell supports their Linux systems.
While the Mini 12 tops the end of the scale for netbooks due to its 12.1 inch widescreen, I believe the Mini 12 will be a perfect Linux replacement for my aging Averatec notebook. Although I wouldn't have minded a smaller netbook, the Mini 12 with its 1280x800 screen resolution and comfortable keyboard was just too enticing. Plus the thought of constantly needing to use the browser's scroll bars with the lower resolution (1024x600) of the smaller netbooks was a concern of mine.
Sigurd Magnusson sent us an email to let us know that "SilverStripe has now split its company and open source projects into two totally revamped and beautiful websites". The two SilverStripe websites will of course have different purposes.
Head on over to the SilverStripe.com site if you want to know more about our company and the business side of things. But if you're looking for the SilverStripe community, developer documentation, or the roadmap for the future of the product, you're in the right place [SilverStripe.org].