Is there anyone else disappointed that Linux.com and NewsForge.com now mirror each other in content? In the past I've called this the CMS déjà vu phenomenon. I'm not sure what to think about it. No wait, I do know what I think about the two sites basically merging into one...I don't like it. I really do miss the diversity in stories the two separate sites once offered.
Last week, Plone 3.0 was released. Plone is the content management system that runs on the Python-based Zope application server. The install of Plone is known to be very easy with Plone, Python, and Zope already packaged together in the installer.
Highlights to the new features/improvements in Plone 3.0 that the Plone team would like to stress via their announcement are listed below. I provided links to further details on those features I thought needed a better explanation or were just too exciting to leave alone.
As I mentioned last month, Packt Publishing is currently taking nominations for their Open Source Content Management Systems Award. Nominations are scheduled to close on August 31, 2007. With the deadline less then two weeks away, there is no better time then the present to head over to their site and promote your favorite open source CMS. Nominations are being accepted for each of the below categories (click to nominate):
Mike Gifford, Open Concept, commented here at CMS Report that his company had just posted a report they did for a client comparing three open source content management systems. His company needed to recommend to their client whether Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal would be a good replacement for their current CMS, Back-End (BE).
A few months ago I mentioned that I was hosting my site using a "budget shared hosting plan through my reseller site which is comparable to the hosting plans offered by GoDaddy". In that same article, I also mentioned that although I prefer to run my sites on a Virtual Private/Dedicated Server (VPS/VDS), I wanted to try experimenting with the cheap shared hosting plans despite the plans not offering full MySQL functions such as CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE. For the most part, my sites have been running fine on the shared hosting plans but I wanted better control (oh how I miss Linux command line via secure shell). So, I began searching for a better reseller hosting plan. Unfortunately, my search for the perfect reseller host plan still continues.
I thought my hosting requirements were pretty simple. I wanted a reseller hosting plan that provided CPanel, PHP5, MySQL5, secure shell, and a license to a client billing system such as ClientExec. Oh and I wanted to be sure the hosting plans provided were Drupal friendly. While I host more than just Drupal sites I've found that if the server is configured properly to run Drupal then it can run almost any other PHP-based CMS out there. All in all I wanted a shared hosting plan where I spent less time managing the server, yet had the controls I needed via a Linux shell. Simple enough right? In fact I thought I found a great reseller plan through ResellerZoom (RZ). However, after spending most of my weekend hours trying to work it all out, I've come to the conclusion I'm still looking for something that works better.
Simple PHP Blog 0.5.0.1, a maintenance release, went public on Tuesday of this week. I know I don't talk too much about it here, but I still like to keep at least one eye open on this particular blogging application. For you see, I consider Simple PHP Blog my very first Web content management system (WCMS).
This post you are reading has been saved unpublished for a few days as I have feared it reads too much as a rant. In this post, I'd like to discuss the difference between good and bad competition when it comes to similar "news sites" such as my own CMS Report. I also want to touch on about how a CMS such as Drupal and Joomla brings both the good and the ugly online. Unfortunately as with all technology, the modern CMS not only has been a blessing to sites dishing news for their writers and their users...but also a curse.
Not long ago, Development Seed posted a fantastic comparison of multilingual handling between Drupal 5 and Drupal 6.
Starting Monday July 16, Packt Publishing will be accepting nominations for their 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award. Last year, I had fun watching closely as the top five open source CMS were nominated and I even made some predictions for which projects would be declared the winners. This year, I'm also honored to announce that I have been selected as a judge for the Overall Winner category!
That's right, while I have my favorites when it comes to CMS, it looks as if I've proven myself to be non-bias and open-minded enough to be on the jury. Ironically, I'm not the only one from Sioux Falls, South Dakota that will be on the judging panel. Deane Barker, Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive, has also been selected as a judge for the social networking category. Evidently, the long winter months in this part of the country has given us too much time to talk and discuss various topics such as technology, content management systems, and innovation. Then again, it's also possible Sioux Falls is a lot more forward-thinking then people typically give credit to the city. Either way, neither Deane or myself know anyone from Fargo.
If you recall, this is the award that last year, Joomla was declared by the judges as the winner, with Drupal in second place, followed by Plone in third place. Different this year then in 2006 is that the CMS projects may be nominated by various categories and more prize money is being offered.