Learning about content management with Typo3. One of the social benefits of open source packages is that anyone can download them and start learning — not just about that platform — but about content management systems in general. In our experience, this is particularly valuable for developers. For example, you can easily download Typo3, a popular PHP-based system, and run it on your laptop or local network (the installer will unpack Apache and MySQL if you don’t already have). By playing around with the tool, you can learn a lot of CMS concepts, such as templating, user management, applying pre-set functions and components, embedding custom code snippets, and so on…. [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
Month: April 2005
Mambo open source CMS
Continuing the open-source riff. A major competitor to Typo3 is Mambo CMS. The two projects are organized rather differently, but both run on a LAMP platform and each boasts a worldwide following. Here is a nice story on the history of the Mambo project, with additional perspective on their recent legal travails…… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
Documentum ships 5.3
Documentum has announced that their new major release, 5.3, has shipped.
The most noteworthy bullets from the new release:
– Linux support across the stack
– Content Rendition Services re-architected and rolled up with other “transformation” products into Content Transformation Services
– Integration of eRoom into the Content Server including the ability to associate a discussion with any object
– Integration of records management retention policies into the core content server
– WDK usability changes (Note: They call them “enhancements” but I’ll wait until I’ve seen them for myself before I use that word!)