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Tech Tip: Websites on Github with Jekyll
We have been facing a challenge on how to manage the Styx Technology Group corporate website without having dedicated resources to host, deal with security, updates and maintenance. Having been in the website business for over a decade at the turn of Y2K, having an easily maintainable solution was key for the long haul. Enter GitHub pages […]
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State of PHP Feb 2012 – Symfony 2, Zend Framework 2, IDE Support, MySQL
There is just too much going on so I thought I should put these thoughts down so that I do not lose my mind from the excitement and anticipation that comes from things moving very fast and innovation being spured at a pace which is mind boggling. PHP In my opinion the stabilization of PHP […]
Joomla Tip – Custom Content Integration with Jumi
Just wanted to share a Joomla (1.7) tip on how we were able to integrate custom content from an external web application with custom PHP code via the Jumi component and plugin (http://bit.ly/wWIQmz). Joomla by default does not allow custom PHP code to be added to articles (content pages) functionality which is provided by the […]
OpenCMS Shell Export Issues – exportResources vs exportResourcesAndUserdata
Well it has been some time since I wrote, but it has been pretty busy over at work, with one issue after another to be resolved. We have been having an issue with OpenCMS backups on the shell, even opened up an issue on the dev mailing list (http://lists.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2011q2/035562.html) where the backups at the shell […]
Joomla Nested Category Issues – Round 2 – Multiple Sections in Blog Layout
Well the problem still stands, my client has 3 levels of content and Joomla 1.5 only supports 2. We have gone through most of the solutions: Joomla 1.6 – totally unusable given the time and technical constraints, Content Construction Kits (CCKs) like JSebold (http://www.jseblod-cck.com/) bring on more complexity than the CMS itself Move to WordPress […]
Joomla 1.5 – Nested Category Issues
The things clients make you go through … We have been working on a rush magazine job using Joomla (http://www.joomla.org) , and all was fine until the client brought out their “Mind Map” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) essentially a representation of the information architecture for their site. And like no other, they had 3 and 4 levels of […]
Joomla 1.6 Released
2011 seems to be heating up in the CMS space Along the heels of Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org/) which had worldwide release parties, and WordPress 3.1 coming soon (http://wordpress.org/), Joomla has released 1.6 on 01/10/11 with hushed tones. I hope that this means that we get reduced hacking attempts and better performance for plugins and modules. […]
Intuit Websites using Sitebuilder by Homestead – Proxy Servers
If you are developing or updating a site hosted by Intuit Websites (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/) you need to be careful when publishing behind a proxy. It seems that the software does not connect to the servers if its behind a proxy, so you need to disable the proxy or find a connection which does not use one […]
OpenCMS Woes – Three Pipe Problem Solving Technique
Well it seems like my woes with OpenCMS migration seem to be over, but the issue is so strange only experience can enlighten one. This still re-inforces my thoughts that Java based applications are huge, complex and diffcult to work with. My expectations for a migration are as follows: a) Copy application files from one […]