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There is a new version of Pictorialis out which fixes a couple of issues that were brought up with the Beta and you can download it from http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/pictorialis.zip
Fixes for this version include:
- Built in EXIF support which does not need pre-compiled EXIF in PHP
- There is a selection mechanism for versions of GD which makes sure you always get the best possible thumbnails and pictures conversion.
- This also has some file upload fixes which makes sure that the uploaded files do not get erased before the script gets a chance to grab the files.
- The installation process has also been better defined with some fixes for the installation troubles reported from the previous version.
As in the pervious version, this new version has the following features:
- XHTML compliant code
- Simple once click addition of photos, auto thumbnail and resizing
- Extraction of EXIF information from original photo and saved as meta
- Easy installation, as easy as installing WordPress
- Simple, clean design and look
- Simple navigation
My example PhotoBlog with WordPress can be found at Pictorialis
Please visit the new Pictorialis Forums.
[EDIT] New Pictorialis Project Page. Please Bookmark.
Well, it’s finally here, the newest version of Greymatter. The Greymatter Team is very pleased with this release. In fact, this is the most pleased we have ever been with a release. Some improvements include beefed up security, emoticons (or smilies, or whatever you want to call them), music and mood inputs, updated (and validated) default templates, and more. The complete changelog is here. There has also been a change to the license agreement, so make sure you read it thoroughly.
Read more and Download GM1.3 Here…
Drupal is a Content Management System which integerates a bunch of interesting features. I consider it to be a very useful tool for websites which cater to a lot of changing content and cater to a large and active userbase. The new version has some major improvements including changes to the original database. The list of features include
Collaborative Book
Friendly URL’s
Modules
Online help
Open source
Personalization
Role based permission
Searching
Recently Modified List
User management
User authentication
Polls
Templating
Threaded comments
Version control
Blogger API support
Content syndication
News aggregator
Permalinks
Platforms supported: Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X
Database independence
Multi-language
Analysis, Tracking and Statistics
Logging and Reporting
Web based administration
Discussion forums
Caching
If this long list of features makes any sense to you, go to Drupal.org and download 4.3.0 Release Candidate of Drupal. Even though this is a release candidate, it is quite stable.
*Edit* I believe this comment from Gunnar Lanegnmark deserves to be a part of this post:
What you miss from the very long list is the taxonomy system. Most people do not realize how much you can do with the right taxonomy system. Categories are not served well by one simple hierarchical list. That is the most compelling feature in Drupal, and the one which originally made me dump PostNuke, MT etc.
Now - a year later - Drupal is rocking once again. The feature list is as long as the 100 modules. Drupal has the best approach for a professional Information Architect and for a programmer. I am not a programmer, and some things are hard to do in Drupal if you are not a programmer, but I know they will come, if I ask for them, and have the patience to wait.
In other systems things are too complicated for developers to change, because the fundamental philosophy of their coding standards is flawed - so you will never get what you want, simply because it is too hard to code.
The WordPress team has released a full version of WordPress (which is what this blog is, and it has been updated to 0.72 as well) 0.72. It has some very nice new features which were lacking in b2 and even in the old WordPress. There are more options to configure and much more control over the output of the blog. There is a pseudo Blogroll built into the system and even allows update information to be downloaded from the Blogrolling website. I did have some problem with the setup of the links, but realized soon enough that it was a mistake on my part. Just remember to enable the php include for “links.weblogs.com.php” at the beginning of the index.php and everything else takes care of itself. Here is the link from SourceForge to download the zip file with the updated WordPress.
Some of the bugfixes and updates listed on the WordPress DevBlog include:
Tons of bug fixes
Password protected posts
Cursor-aware quicktags (like using a fancy text-editor)
Improved API support: full or near full support for the Blogger, MetaWeblog, and MT APIs
New template design from Dave Shea
New configuration method, no more editing files!
New Blogger import
Improved upgrade and install scripts.
Improved post and edit interface
RSS feeds for comments
RSS feeds support Conditional GET
Improved XHTML auto-formatting
Improved Link Manager
Geographical data support
Improved image upload features
Improved calendar
Improved smilies function
No more invalid characters
Increased customizability
And more!
Let me know what you think of the new template included with the package. There are going to be a few more available.
This blog is written using Wordpress which is a branch of B2 and is about to become the primary distribution of b2/Cafelog. I have been using b2 for some time now and have really liked the flexibility of the code and the simplicity of the coding practices. Some of the features of b2/Wordpress that I really like a lot are:
Simplicity of installation and configuration
The ability to login through the blog itself and post on the fly
Simple template design with WELL documented functions and code patterns
Very faithful user base with extremely helpful forums
Proliferation in the Blogosphere, which means faster hacks and bugfixes
Willingness of people to maintain the code even after the original author loses interest
Last but not the least, powerful (albeit expected) features such as teams, multiple post options, built in comments, track and pingbacks, email posts etc.
Cafelog runs relatively efficiently on my server without being too much of a resource hog. I use my blog extensively and hope to keep publishing with b2 and Wordpress for a long time.
AlumniLink grew out of the need for an alunmi database for the EECS Department at the University of Toledo. I needed a script which would create a dynamic Alumni Website without having to have a MySql database. This script is written by using the php-text-db API from C-Worker There is a nice interface to make the tables and the necessary setup of the database. This script is from a German site I cannot pronounce the name of. However all of the licenses are in place and should be adhered to. Now that the formalities are out of the way, here are the list of features (shortened)
No database support needed, all information stored in a text format
Run SQL like commands on your data, code is very simple and coherent PHP
Simple CSS controlled interface with powerful search functions
Little or no setup time
index.php with Username:Admin Password:root gets you into the database web admin
index1.php is the main AlumniLink interface
See this script in action at
EECS UToledo Alumni Site
Here is the link to the AlumniLink zip file.
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