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CMS Weekly Episode 41

CMSW2009-11-19

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Welcome to Greg Knaddison

by Andy McCaskey

Direct from a security conference in Washington DC, we are joined this week by Greg Knaddison, of Growing Venture Solutions in Denver. Greg was a major force behind DrupalCamp in Denver last summer, interviewed by Kara Karsten. Greg covers a range of Drupal related comments as we address stories in the news about Cloud Computing, the shift of Recovery.gov to Sharepoint (Away from Drupal), some of the rewards for participating in open source community efforts, and other topics.

Greg was kind enough to join us directly from the convention center- so there is a bit of noise on the audio, but some great content. Thanks to Greg for joining us !

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Prepare Your Site for Traffic Spikes with BrowserMob
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-21

CMS Wire says it best: If It Crashes, They Can’t Come.

If your website is your company, then having it go down for any period of time can cripple you. Huge interest in your site can see the server(s) unable to cope with demand. A new company, Browsermob, does exactly that.

Others simulate HTTP traffic; we emulate user behavior, making AJAX load testing trivial# Simulate 2,000 VUs for only $150. See exactly how your users experience your site when stressed. Create a set of tests in BrowserMob’s Selenium IDE and get a MySQL report full of statistics such as response time, throughput and error rates. It even returns screenshots of errors. Control 2K+ real browsers; 25K+ virtual users.

Then there is the ongoing monitoring. It checks your site with real browsers in the cloud. It alerts you when your site experiences problems. It’s built for complex websites (ie: AJAX, Flash, etc) and is affordable: get started for as little as $1 per day. Try the free test at browsermob.com. Or jump right in and purchase a package starting at $150.

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Magento Preview Version 1.4.0.0-alpha2 now available
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-09-28

From magentocommerce.com, we receive the news that Magenta Preview Version 1.4.0.0-alpha2 is available for download as of Sept 25th. Disclaimers on the site state that this is a preview version only, not available for upgrade from the Magento Connect Manager, and not recommended for use in a production environment. This is simply a sneak preview of an upcoming release which will feature WYSIWYG support for CMS pages, Magento Widgets, and improved indexing.

Their release notes page contains extensive lists of improvements, changes, and bug fixes. If you have reason to play with this early code, take note of the link to the bug tracker. http://www.magentocommerce.com/bug-tracking/report/

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CMS Weekly Episode 37

CMSW2009-10-05

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• Alfresco Gains DOD Certification
• Why Few Themes in Drupal ?
• Joomla Adds Amigos

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SuperDome Behind the Glass

by Andrew McCaskey
This past Monday, we were able to participate in the HP Tech Day series for the SuperDome Server.

It has been almost ten years since HP introduced the award winning product, and it has worn the years well.

Complete coverage of the event will be found at SDRNews – but here is the chat and Twitter stream from our live coverage to give you an idea of the event’s scope.

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SilverStripe reaches 200,000 downloads
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-10

We talk an awful lot about Joomal, Drupal and Alfresco on this show, but there are a lot of other CMS tools, open source and otherwise. SilverStripe is one such CMS tool. This week they announced they reached the notable milestone of 200,000 downloads.

The actual number could be much higher, due to downloads from an external website SourceForge, as well as discs distributed with magazines and manuals. This also does not include module and widget downloads.

With 10 supported languages, a 450 page technical reference is available in German, and targeted for release in English this month. Is this a “CMS to watch” for 2010 or 2011? User comments on php.opensourcecms.com are mixed. One thing is clear – it is not for the beginner. Building websites using SilverStripe requires technical website development competence, and is thus aimed at providing efficiency and power to experienced website developers.

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Alfresco vs Sharepoint vs Nuxeo
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-10

After an opening caveat that all product comparisons are flawed, Sirius Corp blogger tcallway proceeds to compare open source ECM products Alfresco and Nuxeo with the deeply entrenched Microsoft SharePoint.

SharePoint claims a broad range of functionality including BI, records and document management, web content management and eForms. But it comes with a hefty price tag, and you never stop paying – it’s a lease program with license fees on a host of products – in fact, everything in the Microsoft Stack that is also required to make the package complete.

By comparison, Alfresco is free and runs on Linux, Unix and Mac, in addition to Windows, and supports any LDAP server. Use MySQL or PostgreSQL with Alfresco, and don’t fret purchasing an environment to extend Alfresco – it’s all included. And you don’t need licenses to provide your services to your clients.

However, it’s only the Labs Edition that’s free. The code for the Enterprise version is not available, and this version does have an annual subscription, but is worth it.

The reviewer went on to compare Nuxeo, another open source solution, with Alfresco. He claims both are beautiful, fast and feature-rich, but liked the Nuxeo UI with it’s drag and drop file management better than Alfresco. Nuxeo runs on all mainstream OS’s and is very extensible, and the code is available for its enterprise version. Close, but not close enough. But when the reviewer tried to reach a live person, in the main UK office, or the French office they were forwarded to, the Nuxeo offering came up lacking.

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KnowledgeTree Takes Root in New ECM Markets
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-17

LinuxInsider reports that the world of turnkey electronic content management has few open source players, which helps a company like KnowledgeTree stand out. The ECM software category caters to a wide variety of industries, and each has its own complex set of requirements.

On CMS Weekly we usually talk about content management as web content. For this story, consider the broader application of electronic document management. In this arena, in contrast to the web content management, there are few open source players. One worthy of note is KnowledgeTree.

KnowledgeTree was founded in 2004 by CEO Daniel Chalef in response to a request from a government agency in his home country of South Africa to help set up a system for managing its documents and tracking access. Chalef was already hatching plans to develop an open source product for document management, so he chose to continue with that model, initially developing a community-based free version, and proceeding to a commercial version, available stand-alone or web-based.

KnowledgeTree was designed to be easy to install and use, and includes a Microsoft Office add-on, for accessing and editing documents in the KnowledgeTree repository directly in Office. KnowledgeTree Live includes an integrated Zoho Writer for document editing without additional editing software. In addition to more than 300 commercial subscribers, the community edition has been downloaded 650,000 times. More than 60% of the subscribers are based in the US. The target customer is small to medium sized companies and government agencies.

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Introducing GetSimple CMS
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-17

In his CMS Report this week, CMS enthusiast Bryan Ruby reviews a new CMS tool called GetSimple CMS, newly launched by Chris Cagle. This brand spanking new tool is aimed at small businesses, and have a few nice features worthy of note.

These include an “undo” command that works for almost every action, and a revision backup feature. The tool also can generate an XML sitemap, which is used by most search engines for indexing. And it has an integrated help ticket system.

Another factor to note is that GetSimple CMS uses XML files for database storage, instead of the more common SQL database. GetSimple CMS is a PHP application that runs on Unix or Linux OS and Apache servers. Demo and download are available at get-simple.info.

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EE Roadshow: The Future of Content Management Systems
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-17

One thing that seems to be common across the CMS world is “community”, and ExpressionEngine has a devoted community too. After a sold out show in Vancouver in 2008, the EE Road Show moves to Seattle on Oct 2nd, 2009. Some sessions previewed by President Leslie Camacho in his blog are Jason Hudnutt explaining how to deploy ExpressionEngine with Git, Matt Perry telling how he improves EE performance for complex scenarios, and Ryan Ireland’s 10 ways to Improve Your EE Site Development.

There will be more sessions, as well as panel discussions, and of course the most valuable offering of this type of event – meeting the community and sharing ideas. President Camacho himself will present “The Future of Content Management Systems”, specifically about their 2.0 version and generally about the future of CMS and the opportunities it presents for CMS professionals.

Register at eeroadshow.com.

Our European listeners can experience more of the ExpressionEngine community at EECI 2009, the first European ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter conference, Oct 22-23 in Leiden, Netherlands. Almost 100 companies are scheduled to attend, with interesting names such as Duoh!, Full Cream Milk and Design is Dead.

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