Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
As the MiaCMS Team, we recently gave an interview at OpenSourceCMS.com.
Here is a tiny excerpt from the interview;
Chanh:
7) There is a plethora of open source CMS’s available out “there” for people to choose. Why should people consider MiaCMS?
MiaCMS team:
Chad: The MiaCMS team is focused on producing an simple, yet powerful content management system. The team is focused on stability, security, innovation, web standards, performance, and our users. We are community focused and take pride in our product. MiaCMS is not a toy, an experiment, or a hobby. It is a robust CMS which can be used for sites of all types and sizes. Furthermore, MiaCMS has a very powerful extension system which can be used to develop custom extensions to enable functionality not found in the core by default.
Cem: One of the good things that we inherited from Mambo is the mindset of “simplicity”. Can we make it simpler, yet better! We are working on it.
You can read more a http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?o…….08&Itemid=188
If you’re in the quest for an Open Source CMS, and don’t want to download/install a bunch of them till you decide, I would surely recommend that you visit OpenSourceCMS.com, play with the demos that they refresh hourly.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
We made it. An -perhaps- insignificant step for humanity, but a giant step for the MiaCMS project.
MiaCMS has been selected as a finalist in the PacktPub 2008 Open Source CMS competition. Our precious project will compete in the the “Most Promising Open Source CMS” category. MiaCMS project is only about 5 months old, but we have worked hard and are quite proud of the results and the interest in the project.
The official list can be see here:
http://www.packtpub.com/2008-open-source-cms-award-finalists
The official voting (the real thing) starts Monday September 1. Your nominations helped get us to this point, and we are thankful for that. However, we need to ask you one more time to show your support for MiaCMS project.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
MiaCMS was one of the Open Source projects that was presented at Thailand OSS Festival 2008. Love it. !!!
MiaCMS at Thailand OSS Festival (presented by Akarawuth Tamrareang, a.k.a Krit)
You can see the rest of the Flickr set here.
You can download the presentation from http://miacms.org. And see few surprising news too.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
moseasymedia, a sort of well known video embedding extension in the Mambo Joomla! community, has a new release. moseasymedia 2.0.x version is released in mid April with a few neat features.
I’ll try give some highlights from the readme.txt that’s in the zip package.
Please read on,
(more…)
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
One of the well-known media embedding extensions for MiaCMS, Joomla!, and Mambo, moseasymedia (mos-easy-media), is changing its name. The new name will be mbedia (m-bedia , sounds more like em-bedia).
mbedia will have all the existing capabilities of moseasymedia, and will utilize YUI Javascript libraries for popup videos to avoid all namespace conflicts with other Javascript libraries. There are a few other goodies in the bag for mbedia, yet to be announced.
The new project will be backward-compatible with all versions moseasymedia and support both {moseasymedia …..} and {mbedia ….} tags.
Click here for more information on Brilaps Wiki site. And click here for the moseasymedia demo.
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Martin Brampton has an interesting Web tech and PHP related blog at
http://blog.guru-php.com/
i.e. take a look at Helpers are unhelpful.
Overall, highly recommended bookmark.
Also, take a look at Martin’s book on PHP CMS Frameworks;
click for details…
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
It’s been about 9 months since the first release of MiaCMS and since then we had four public releases. MiaCMS 4.6.4, MiaCMS 4.6.5, MiaCMS 4.6.5 SP1 and finally MiaCMS 4.8 .
We’ve been sticking to our roadmap and working hard to get those in one by one, as our time allows. We have almost 500 commits in our svn. That should be an indicator for some level of activity on the MiaCMS front.
So, what’s been happening over at the Mambo world?
The following line is from the 4.6 branch of Mambo.
r1752 | elpie | 2008-10-01 23:42:57 -0700 (Wed, 01 Oct 2008) | 1 line
Two interesting things about this SVN log line. It is pretty old (as of January 20th, 2009), and the committer. We all thought, elpie left the Mambo world to not to come again.
Another fact is the 4.7 branch of Mambo. It’s still closed to public. When we forked MiaCMS in May, 2008, we pretty much forked what Mambo 4.7 was at that point in time. If that source is still in the works by the Mambo Team, what possibly they might be adding??? Or, perhaps they gave up on Mambo 4.6, and Mambo 4.7. Perhaps, they are working on the Mambo 5.0, which Chad initiated long long time ago – I doubt it. Ah!, not a single commit in that branch! I guess, Mambo Team is not developing Mambo 5.0 either.
Once in a while, I go over to Mambo Forums and check out what’s going on. Not much ! Just a few survey posts, a graphics competition which keeps getting extended, and some dummie chat stuff. There a few help requests too.
No mention of elections, board of directors or certain legalities. As far as I know, their election deadline set by Australian Government passed months ago. Are they not an illegal non-profit organization yet?
For me, it’s very difficult to grasp, why would anyone go for Mambo at this point. Old & non-maintained code, bad publicity, bad management, no roadmap, no future, lots of legal issues etc. You name the negativity, Mambo has it.
You can leave all the hardcore architectural stuff MiaCMS went through, since the fork. Just look at the brand new goodies; Content Revisioning, OpenID, RESTful API, RSS Enhancements, AKismet Comments, Enhanced Charting, MOSTlyCE upgrades and more…
See it folks! Mambo project is old, outdated, it’s not maintained, it’s essentially dead. If you want a Mambo like CMS, with the “power in simplicity” motto, go MiaCMS, which is still very actively developed and maintained by the same team that once brought glory to Mambo.
MiaCMS will have some very interesting news coming up in the following weeks. I tell you now; next-gen MiaCMS will be one kick-ass project.
Save Mambo from her misery, and switch over to MiaCMS.
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
In the last month I had a few blog post about the “possible outcomes of Open Source projects in turmoil”. Indeed, all those messages were referring to Mambo CMS project, and the very Mambo Foundation. After refraining myself from all the Mambo Foundation duties (Core Team Lead, Translation etc.) in April 2008, I wasn’t planning to get my hands dirty with the core Mambo code for a while, but instead we (Chad and I) tried to revive the project externally by adding cool features like REST interface, Bridget the RESTful Yahoo Widget and such. Unfortunately, those didn’t fly well with the existing Mambo structure.
Seeing all our recent efforts go down in flames was one thing, and seeing a collective effort exceeding 10 years Mambo experience is another. The latter hurts more. So happened MiaCMS fork on May 11th, 2008.
Mambo’s most recent release 4.6.3 was on December 25th, 2007, and a few important bugs were immediately reported a few days after the release. Mambo Team fixed those in a short time, and Mambo 4.6.4 had been “release ready” since January 2008. And the Mambo wheels spun and spun and spun. The code has been in a stand still since than. Don’t ask me, I still don’t get it; and I was a part of that team. I am sad to admit, I was not able to make a difference with in Mambo Foundation. Too many battles to fight to make the product better. Unfortunately, I personally don’t have the time and patience for it. Plus, what’s the point?
Some insider information on how the fork happened. After Chad and I split from the Mambo Foundation, we’ve been going back and forth with the idea of the “fork“. Everytime one of us brought it up – after getting fired up on something happened in the Foundation- the other one shotting it down. The main reason for being indecisive about the fork was that; it is a pretty big thing to bite. During one of those discussions at the end of April, somehow we got on the same page, titled “let’s fork this thing”. Convenient timing indeed; Al Warren resigns from his new Mambo Core Team Lead position and Richard Peter Ong hops on our fork train. Rest is yet to be history.
April 29, 2008, we grab a snapshot of Mambo 4.6 from Mambo SVN (rev. 1688), roll our sleeves and start coding inside out. In 10 days, we have 200 commits in our SVN:fixed numerous issues, bundled the REST API, added a Sitemap Component and a Social Bookmarking module, revamp the entire Administration console based on Y! UI, (yes it validates almost in all Admin pages), added a new validating template based on Y! UI Grids, a brand new WYSIWYG Editor, probably many more that I don’t remember now. All those needed to be done for ages, too bad we just couldn’t do it with Mambo. At some point, we were so fired up on the outstanding silly validation issues, we even fixed the Installer.
Here we are on May 11, 2008, and I am a proud participant of the MiaCMS project. I already upgraded all my personal sites to Mia, and didn’t bi^%@#!ch about any problems back to the developers (I personally know the dudes who worked on it). Anyways, I love it. And I hope, Mia will grow into a big project with a loving and caring community.
You can find more information about MiaCMS at http://miacms.org (you’ll see the documentation, screenshots, forum links over there
*Chad also has his musings on http://OpenSourcePenguin.net
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
2008
Packt Publishing
Open Source
Content Management System Awards
Most Promising
Please nominate MiaCMS for the following categories too;
Overall The Best
Best PHP
*The whole thing takes about 30 seconds. Type MiaCMS as the “Project Name”, and “Its Website” is http://miacms.org
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