Many of us use online services to monitor web server status, if it goes down, if all services are up and running fine, which send back notification by sms, email or others… Such tools help making server administrator’s life easier,…
Drupal is most commonly known as a powerful content management system (CMS), but recently we noticed that many developers started using Drupal as a platform or Framework to build custom web solution. The latest have just been announced a week ago, it is called Open Atrium and it aims to provide a foundation for developing custom team collaboration and knowledge management tools. Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations. It comes with six features – a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all. The solution announced by Development Seed , provides a completely customizable collaboration and communication platform that you can build on it your next killer knowledge management tool. Supported languages for Open Atrium include Arabic, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Released under GPL and BSD license
Many bloggers were interested into monetizing their blogs and I was sharing with some friends lots of tips that I’ll post here also, but this wasn’t really our main focus especially that there are lots of great blogs such as Problogger and Performancing who are more specialized in this topic. You probably heard about people making more than $10k from paid posts only and you are wondering if you are eligible to make such good money easily. Today I’m coming back with 8 tips to monetize your blog with Paid Posts, hope this will open your mind to new alternative that you don’t know or still thrilled to experiment.
While I’m still waiting for my Wave invitation, Google released today code for the wave protocol with installation instructions to create your own wave servers, and how to generate a Self-Signed Wave Federation Certificate The open source Wave Federation Prototype Server is delivered as a Java application that conforms to XEP-0114, the Jabber Component Protocol. In the examples below we show how to install the Wave Federation Prototype Server as an extension to the Openfire XMPP server, but it should run against any XEP-0114 compliant server. The wave protocol specification draft defines Google Wave as a communication and collaboration platform based on hosted conversations, called waves. A wave consists of XML documents and supports concurrent modifications and low-latency updates between participants on the wave. The wave federation protocol enables everyone to become a wave provider and share waves with others. For instance, an organization can operate as a wave provider for its members, an individual can run a wave server as a wave provider for a single user or family members, and an Internet service provider can run a wave service as another Internet service for its users as a supplement to email, IM, ftp, etc. A decentralized architecture that makes Google wave implementations limited only to your imagination.
Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. As a member of the global Drupal community, Acquia helps accelerate Drupal usage by contributing to the advancement of the core technology and offering products, services and technical support to simplify the deployment and management of Drupal websites. The company have just secured $8 Million in series B financing from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia plans to use the funds for sales, marketing and additional product development to meet growing enterprise demand for the Drupal open source social publishing system. A great opportunity for the Drupal community to meet the enterprise world. Acquia, whose co-founder and CTO Dries Buytaert created the Drupal platform in 2001, told TechCrunch that the company will use the funding to help create and expand the market for Drupal in the enterprise world . Drupal hopes to expand its existing base of 200 subscription customers. Below the press release : Andover, MA – July 20, 2009 – Acquia, Inc., the web’s resource for the Drupal social publishing system, today announced it has secured $8 million in a Series B financing round from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia plans to use the funds for sales, marketing and additional product development to meet growing enterprise demand for the Drupal open source social publishing system.
Adobe Systems have just released two new flash technologies under the Mozilla Public License. The first Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) is part of the Strobe project which aims to establish an open standard for flash based media players. Open Source Media Framework enables developers to easily assemble pluggable components to create high-quality, full-featured playback experiences. The open aspect of the framework enables collaborative development for web video monetization, with lower costs and faster turnaround. The second initiative is Text Layout Framework (TLF), an extensible ActionScript library, built on the new text engine in Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web
jQuery Conference 2009 is a two day conference taking place Saturday, September 12th and Sunday, September 13th at Microsoft Cambridge in Boston. The registration fee is $150(USD) and will help cover the cost of the venue, food and beverages, and a T-Shirt for attendees! Payment for the event is handled via PayPal. The conference will be all day and feature two tracks on each day. The schedule is still being finalized and will be announced once it is available. Notice that there are already 185 registered until today and only 300 spots max, so hurry get your place before it’s too late.
Four days ago I ordered a VPS from modVPS, a division of HostingZoom. I was an old unhappy customer of HostingZoom and then switched to another company that fit much better with my needs. I was also following recent changes…
Gixmox announced today that Visual WebGui users can create native applications with Windows Azure that run on the cloud, and migrate on-premises line of business (LOB) applications to the cloud without rewrite – saving enterprises huge costs in development and deployment time. Visual WebGui’s unique IP architecture allows customers accustomed to using on-premise LOB applications the ability to retain their development skills and user experience when porting UI’s to the cloud. Visual WebGui applications running on Windows Azure look, feel, and behave like their on-premise counterparts. The cost-saving value of developing with Visual WebGui provides a strategic advantage to enterprises that are seeking cost-efficient technologies that enhance existing IT capabilities. Company representatives will be presenting within the Microsoft Azure exhibit at this week’s WPC in New Orleans
SilverStripe CMS is a flexible open source Content Management System that gives everyone involved in a web project the tools they need to do their jobs. The solution is created and maintained by SilverStripe Ltd; and powered by Sapphire framework , which developed by the same company. SilverStripe could be easily extended using modules, themes or widgets; or even more customized with Saphire framework. Released under (revised) BSD License. SilverStripe CMS features include : Create new pages and drag and drop them where you want them to be in the sitemap Edit and style content using a toolbar with familiar buttons and dropdowns (similar to MS Word) Easily insert links, images, and Flash into your content Copy and paste content from MS Word View a draft of your content changes before pushing them live Publish changes to your site with one click of a button Assign different user roles and permissions for each section or even page of your site View older versions of a page and roll back if needed Search-engine friendly , Standard compliant, Accessible, … More information at http://silverstripe.org