The trend of moving to open source products is picking up and recently reports have proved it. Let’s look at what is the driving force that is behind this shift. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with an open source product: Advantages Disadvantages Innovative Large developers community Open Code Roadmap influenced by …
Feb
19
Ajax – Looking back at year’s old journey
Ajax has come a long way in a year’s time. Last year around this time, we first heard about it. Ajax had brought about the a big difference in web applications which largely changed usability arena. Web Applications started looking like rich desktop applications. Let’s look at its journey from rebirth.
Feb
09
OpenCMS – Customize Property Dialog
As a part of my recent implementation in OpenCms, one of the main requirement was to customize the OpenCms Property window by providing browse facility for setting properties as provided by TemplateOne. After lots of searching, I hardly got any information about how TemplateOne did. After digging deep into OpenCms, finally managed to build customized …
Jan
24
Portal ‘Themes’ Contest
There have been quite a few inititatives like POST, portletswap etc. to encourage people to submit their work in Portlets/Portal world but none really took off. More recently Liferay, a leading opensource Portal, started with “portal themes” contest which ended last month end. The idea was to build the graphic user interface “skins” which helps …
Jan
11
OpenCms – Different Environments
Recently I was involved in one of the OpenCms implementations. My initial thought about the product was that it is not in match with some of the other products in market but after exploring a while I realized its potential and extensibility. In one of the recent post “From Vignette to OpenCms“, Apoorv pointed out …
Jan
05
Welcome 2006
Year 2005 had been a happening year in Portals and Content Management domain. Google emerging and standing out from rest of the world growing many folds and exploring in different domains. We saw products like Google Talk, Google Desktop and side bar, Google earth etc. It has really picked up itself from now just being …
Oct
07
SuSE 10 Released
Novell has released the latest version of SuSE Linux 10, its Linux distribution . It is the first Novell distribution to have been built under its OpenSuSE community model. The distribution comes with GNOME 2.12 and KDE 3.4.2 and includes more than 1,500 open-source Linux applications and packages that can be optionally installed for Web …
Aug
23
Alfresco Named Trend-Setter
Alfresco, an Open Source Content Management framework has been named a “Trend-Setter” by KMWorld magazine. KMWorld recognized Alfresco’s open source content repository for its usability, rapid rate of industry adoption and anticipated future impact. I never got a chance to explore Alfresco but Alfresco review shows that the product has lot to offer in the …
Aug
16
Magnolia and OpenWFE
Recently Magnolia announced v2.1 CMS suite with number of new enhancements to their existing suite including rich-text editor choices, XML based import-export, native search etc. One of the best things about Magnolia is that it is built on Java Content Repository (JSR 170) standards. I am still in process of exploring its features. One of …
Aug
03
RICO – Open Source Java Script library for Rich Internet Applications
RICO is an open source Java Script library which provide full Ajax support helping to add Ajax to any HTML page. It provides JavaScript object called AjaxEngine which define standard XML for Ajax response with a way to specify targeted HTML elements. I played around for sometime with RICO and the demos and can easily …
