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Content Management SilverStripe

Written by Eko Priyanto on Sunday, June 21, 2009

SilverStripe is an open source product born out of an existing closed source one. The small New Zealand based company decided last year to offer its innovative CMS to customers free, and as a result has achieved over 100,000 downloads of the system. And its no surprise why. SilverStripe is Wordpress on steroids, and because it is completely tailored towards content management, and not blogging, (although it can do this too) you wont be disappointed with the features. SilverStripe shinks (uploaded) images on the fly, has support for drafts and preview, allows users to review and roll back (version control) and has support for SEO out of the box (including URL rewriting). Its target market - is somewhere between Wordpress users and Mambo or Drupal which is perfect for the small to mid-sized development team. The companies credentials are also sound - Just last it achieved support from Google - in the form of Google’s summer of code 2007. Recently Sun did a bit of a case study on them too. We are keeping a close eye on this badboy.

SilverStripe

Technology : PHP
RDMS: MySQL database
Setup time: 30 minutes+
Supported OS: Windows/Linux/Mac

Features:

* Online image editor
* Widgets
* User Defined Forms
* Search Engine Optimised
* Windows and PHP installer.
* Version Control

URL: http://www.silverstripe.com

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Frog CMS

Written by Eko Priyanto on Thursday, June 18, 2009

Created as a PHP port of Radiant CMS (Ruby on Rails app), Frog CMS carries the motto “Fast and Simple”. And it stands up to the test - we found that it took up quite a bit smaller memory footprint than the Ruby equivalent. The learning curve (provided you know a bit about PHP) is also relatively fast, and you can be up and running with a content managed solution in as little as 45 minutes. Complimenting the main site is a support forum, and good clear documentation. However if you are a complete PHP newbie, this one probably is still a bit involved, and although it uses a templating system, it will still prove to be a pain to implement - say over something like Wordpress.

We also found that the download on their site was corrupt, and had to grab it via Tortoise SVN. We would say to stick out at it though and you will be rewarded in what is an extremely well put together Open Source CMS.

Made By Frog

Technology : PHP
RDMS: a MySQL database or SQLite 3
Setup time: 45 minutes+ Supported OS: *Nix (Apache)

Features:

* On page editing
* Simple Philosophy
* Add pages & Images
* Extendable, includes an API
* Uses Templating Code.

URL: http://www.madebyfrog.com/
SUPPORT FORUM: http://forum.madebyfrog.com/

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Free Social Engine v3.10

Written by Eko Priyanto on Tuesday, June 16, 2009

SocialEngine is a PHP-based social network platform that lets you create a social network on your website. Right out of the box, your social network will offer nearly all of the features found on today's wildly popular social networks. Instead of hosting your social network on our servers, we give you complete control over your project by allowing you to download the source code and install it on your own server.

Demo(Social Engine) | Download(Social Engine)

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Symantec and McAfee to pay cash to New York State

Written by Eko Priyanto on Sunday, June 14, 2009

It seems that several New Yorkers have complained that after purchasing software online from Symantec and McAfee, had their subscriptions automatically renewed without their consent. As settlement, both the companies have been ordered to pay the New York state $750,000 and also improve the visibility of their subscription terns and renewal policies.

This will also involve notifying customers both before and after renewal of the subscription and also offering a 60 day grace period for refunds. The rule is that companies cannot play hide and seek with the fees that consumers will have to pay without their knowledge.