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Monday, Jul 31 2006

Belgium-based Emagine updates their flagship Web Content Management (Web CMS) product, emagiC. Release 3.0 focuses on ease of use, rapid adoption, and wizard-driven management.

Admittedly, not everyone thinks "open source" when .NET geeks start talking shop. Mono has had a positive influence on this perception and recently released SharpDevelop (#develop) is adding momentum.

It has rarely made sense for a business to advertise its weaknesses. Until the Web, that is.

Friday, Jul 28 2006

Citing their desire to encourage healthy, productive open source communities, Google has launched Google Code Hosting. Think Source Forge meets GMail and you’re in the ballpark.

Wednesday, Jul 26 2006

Alfresco, a provider of an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, announces support for Open Document Format (ODF). Their ODF Virtual File System will support drag and drop conversion to ODF documents from any Office application source.

The fourth annual Plone Conference, will be held October 25-27, 2006 at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms in Seattle, Washington USA.

The conference spans three full days and includes talks, tutorials and workshops for Plone developers, Plone implementers, and those who seek to join the Plone community.

Monday, Jul 24 2006

lfresco Software, one of the first providers of open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, is being featured by O'Reilly at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) starting today.

Alfresco VP, Kevin Cochrane, will present during the O'Reilly Spotlight, 1:00 PM Pacific Time tomorrow the 25th.

Monday, Jul 24 2006

Packt, the publisher of many a useful CMS book, announces an official quest for “The Best Open Source CMS” and an according, annual set of prizes around the “Packt Open Source CMS” yearly winners.

Writing code that functions to spec is one thing. Writing performant code that demonstates a solid understanding of the route from CSharp to MSIL to JIT to machine code is another thing. Thankfully, there are number of solid (and free) resources out there to help engineers seeking to advance in this area.

Friday, Jul 21 2006

The Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) has been emerging in its new form over the past two and a half years. Beta 2 is out and we’re told production will arrive in the environs of late 2006.

As for MCMS 2002 as we have known it? Its gone. Its history. Its a fading memory.

Tuesday, Jul 18 2006

Starting Aug 4th Sun's Sang Shin is kicking-off a free 10-week online course for budding AJAX developers. The course is both for people just getting started with AJAX and for those looking to refine their AJAX dev skills. It should come as no surprise that the context will be strongly colored by Sun's penchant for Java technologies.