Archive for the ‘blog’ Category

• Dotclear

  Date: 2010.10.15 | Category: blog | Response: 0

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  Dotclear is an open source blog publishing application distributed under the GNU GPLv2. It is relatively popular in French speaking countries, where it is used by several major blogging platforms. Developed originally by Olivier Meunier from 2002, Dotclear has now attracted a solid team of developers. The latest release of Dotclear is version 2.1.6, released on October 1, 2009.

  Dotclears proposed aim is to develop a software fully respecting web standards based on open source solutions with a multilingual capability for publication and for the interface. It is written in PHP (working with version 5.0 or higher) and proposes a choice of databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, …).

  Dotclear is offered as a free blogging system for all hostnames registered with Gandi.net, which guarantees a large number of users in Europe (24,421 as of 2010-02-07).

  

• Frog CMS

  Date: 2010.10.14 | Category: CMS, blog | Response: 0

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  Frog CMS is an open source content management system originally developed by the company Philippe Archambault. The design decision taken from its start was to use PHP5 as the language for the software, along with a MySQL database backend, although it also has support for SQLite (version 3). It is a port of the Ruby on Rails CMS known as Radiant, although Frog has begun to take its own development direction.

  Features

  Frog CMS offers the common advantages being based on the well-known PHP/mySQL pair. Resisting the temptation to develop its own arcane scripting system, PHP is available directly to developers, but may be hidden from users. It also makes use of an “Extra Light PHP Framework” to provide some commonly used functions to the CMS. Otherwise, its main features include:

  • simple hierarchical structured page creation and navigation
  • drag-and-drop page re-ordering
  • styles and metadata assigned globally or on a per-page basis
  • flexible page content with reusable “snippets” (header, footer), or sidebar, or extended (custom fields) content
  • lightweight core with many functions available as “plugins”, including file-management, comment forms, Textile and Markdown support, and database connectivity via PDO (required for use with SQLite); user-contributed plugins include the TinyMCE and FCKeditor wysiwyg editors, gallery, and lightbox-style image display
  • user management, allowing three levels of access (“Administrator” = full site access; “Developer” = complete access except to the “User” module; “Editor” = access only to unprotected pages) to the backend; pages can be selectively “protected” from those with “Editor” rights
  • built-in CSS editing
  • UTF8 encoding, with i18n modules currently available for Bengali (Bangla), Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

  Official Site: Frog CMS

  

• Midgard

  Date: 2010.09.29 | Category: CMS, Wiki, blog | Response: 1

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  Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.

  Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system (CMS) built on the Midgard framework. MidCOM’s features include web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and a component interface for installing additional web functionalities, including wikis and blogs.

  Midgard is built on the GNOME stack of libraries like GLib and libgda, and has language bindings for C, Python, Objective-C and PHP. Communications between applications written in the different languages happen over D-Bus. The CMS functionalities run on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) platform.

  The project follows the synchronized, 6 month release cycle that is implemented by several major open source projects like Ubuntu and GNOME. Because of this, the version numbering reflects to year and month of a release. The version 8.09 Ragnaroek has been designated as a “Long Term Support” release.

  Especially the templating and page composition features of Midgard have received praise, earning honorary mentions in several CMS Watch surveys. It also got score of 42 out of 45 in the Celebrity CMS Deathmatch of 2009.

  

• MojoMojo

  Date: 2010.07.08 | Category: CMS, Wiki, blog | Response: 1

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  MojoMojo is a Perl open-sourced web application that combines the features of a wiki, content management system and blog. MojoMojo builds on top of the Catalyst web framework and uses DBIx::Class as the ORM. It is an example of an MVC application, and the most complex Catalyst-based open-source application to date. One of MojoMojo’s distinguishing features is that it uses tree hierarchies to store pages, a corresponding hierarchical database model to store page content, and a nested set model for fast page retrieval.

  Architecture

  MojoMojo has a modular architecture and makes extensive use of CPAN modules; as such, it was listed as #2 among projects with heavy CPAN dependency chains. Currently, MojoMojo is the largest standalone project on CPAN in terms of dependencies, being preceded only by meta-modules (modules that simply aggregate other modules for convenience and do not offer specific functionality).

  Key Features

  MojoMojo has a combination of features which make it unique among wiki software:

  • hierarchical page structure, coupled with folksonomical page tagging
  • live Ajax preview while editing pages
  • Multiple wiki syntax choices (Markdown, Textile, POD) and pluggable syntax
  • extensive permissions system

  Other features

  Below are more of MojoMojo’s features:

  • Built-in full text search, with external search option
  • RSS feeds
  • Support for attachments, with photo gallery for image attachments
  • Diffs, revision control and edit conflict resolution via 3-way merge
  • User registration control and CAPTCHA anti-spam measures
  • Localization (currently translated into Catalan, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian) and full Unicode support
  

• Movable Type

  Date: 2010.06.28 | Category: blog | Response: 1

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  Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on 3 September 2001, and version 1.0 was publicly released on 8 October 2001. On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software under the GNU General Public License.

  The current version is 5.01.

  Features

  • Multiple weblogs
  • Standalone content pages
  • Asset and File Manager
  • User and user role management
  • Customizable templates
  • Tags
  • Categories, sub-categories and multiple categories for articles
  • TrackBack
  • Bookmarklets

  The application supports static page generation (in which files for each page are updated whenever the content of the site is changed), dynamic page generation (in which pages are composited from the underlying data as the browser requests them), or a combination of the two techniques.

  Movable Type optionally supports LDAP for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning.

  Movable Type is written in Perl, and supports storage of the weblog’s content and associated data within MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite (support for Berkeley DB was dropped in version 4, and support for PostgreSQL and SQLite will be dropped in version 5). Dynamic page generation is handled by Smarty.

  Movable Type is free software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the free version, users can purchase support or buy commercial, education, or nonprofit licenses, which come with support contracts and author limits and unlimited blogs. Movable Type Enterprise also supports the Oracle database and Microsoft SQL Server.