Content Management Matters ™

The Digitalus CMS aims to empower PHP developers to create content on a solid, simple and extendable content management system that is based off of the widely popular Zend Framework.

It all started with the SweeTS - TypoScript Development. This first “real” development environment for TYPO3 and TypoScript was good, but not really an “enterprise” development tool. So three guys and a gal -- Sebastian Böttger, David Brühlmeier, Eckhard M. Jäger (the creator of SweeTS) and Nina Meyer – got together and decided to build a truly enterprise SweeTS development environment based on Eclipse.

Python

How is Python, the object oriented scripting language known for imposing indentation on developers, the "Programming Language of the Year for 2007"?

The name Pligg has been bouncing around on the wires quite a bit in recent weeks. Certain well-connected bloggers have been dropping the name and singing its merits as an ideal Web CMS solution for a certain type of developer and a certain type of problem. Want to hear more? Here's the Pligg lowdown.

eZ Systems has updated the eZ Components suite, releasing two brand new tools for its bubbling developer's cauldron: Tree and Wedav.

On the homepage of MODx, amongst an unusual but welcome absence of pseudo-corporate gibberish, lies a strange adducement. The system is, we are told, "100% buzzword compliant".

I can think of better ways I would like my product to be regarded, but now the organization has a genuinely impressive claim for their product: they have just won Packt Publishing's "Most Promising Open Source CMS" award, beating off strong competition from Typolight and dotCMS, amongst others, to secure the title.

If open source truly is the future, and these guys are the future of open source, then the news will make a lot of Web CMS industry people sit up and take notice.

As PHP continues to gain momentum and earn respect from organizations both big and small, language luminaries from across the globe are preparing to meet in San Francisco October 8th through 11th for the so-called world's largest gathering of of the PHP community.

Here's one more for our techie bookworm readership: Packt Press has published a new book aimed at helping users harness the power and benefits of Oracle Database and PHP.

PHP Oracle Web Development: Data processing, Security, Caching, XML, Web Services, and Ajax, is written by Yuli Vasiliev and covers the most popular and up-to-date topics on using PHP in conjunction with Oracle.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Wordpress, Expression Engine and Movable Type may be out front in the Micro CMS space, but a little competition is always a good thing. That competition comes in the form of New Zealand based Silverstripe who have released an updated version of their open source CMS product.

Modera, an up and coming European Web CMS provider, has announced their latest core product release and the availability of a new Pro version of their CMS. The heavy focus is usability via AJAX with a touch of SEO for good measure.

In an attempt to promote the Windows operating system as a deployment target as well as a development environment, Zend and Microsoft have partnered together to include Windows-specific performance enhancements in the release of Zend Core 2.0.

It has been a long five years, but the Roller Weblogger blogging platform has finally graduated from the Apache Incubator and achieved top level status as an Apache project.

We don't always characterize IBM's written word as concise nor clear. However the output from their Developer Works group is another matter. These articles are consistently useful, to the point, and consumable. Their latest is part one of a three part series covering the notable XML-oriented enhancements native to PHP 5. It focuses on SimpleXML and the DOM.

In their recent 2007 Scripting Languages -- Developers Choice Report, involving more than 400 developers, California-based Evans Data Corporation found that contrary to some popular opinion, Adobe and Microsoft's environments were considered by developers to be more secure than client/server AJAX scripting solutions such as Ruby, PHP, and Python.