Weblog: PR Newswire
Source: OpenDomain Donates Use of Web Addresses to Encourage Online Collaboration
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MECHANICSBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- He is the "anti-squatter."

A Pennsylvania entrepreneur who owns registered Internet Web site domain names is allowing individuals and organizations to use many of them for free to encourage people who develop Internet applications to share information and contribute computer codes online.

Unlike others who purchase domain names and later fight with companies over much-needed Web site addresses, OpenDomain.Org gives away the use of these valuable assets to those who use open sourcing - the practice of releasing previously proprietary software for free under license - to help advance Internet technologies around the world.

While so-called cyber squatters typically seek money from start-up firms or even large corporations requiring a certain Web address, OpenDomain.Org believes those who use and support open sourcing shouldn't have to wage a bidding war to secure a domain name.

"While we continue to see speculators buying and selling domain names for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars, what we are doing is quite the opposite of cyber squatting - in fact, we're the anti-squatter," said Ric Johnson, president of OpenDomain.Org. "We don't sell domains nor do we transfer them. Instead, we buy domains so organizations that share our view of responsible open sourcing can use them for free in promoting these open technologies. It's a different way to contribute to open sourcing, and it's the kind of collaborative spirit that made the Internet possible."

In return, OpenDomain simply seeks a link on the Web sites of organizations that use the domain names provided by OpenDomain to raise awareness so that more groups can take advantage of the opportunity.

Many applications on the Internet that benefit the public, including blogs, are a result of open sourcing.

OpenDomain.Org has donated several domain names over the past six years to organizations and individuals involved in technologies for blogging, instant messaging, spam protection and other online functions. Organizations that have received domain names - many on the leading edge of future Internet technology - are grateful for the support of OpenDomain.

"Domain names have long been one of the most contentious aspects of the Web, and as with any area where resources are dear, the field has attracted its shares of speculators who choose names not because of need, but to hold them ransom," said Kurt Cagle, chief architect of Metaphorical Web. "Thankfully, there are people like Cedric Johnson of OpenDomain.Org, who's worked hard - and spent a great deal - to keep such domain names freely available for those people who would actually develop resources to help the open source and open standards community. He's helped me with the domain xForms.Org that I'm developing, and I can only heap praise upon him for the selfless acts that he continues to do."

Other developers agree.

"OpenDomain.Org acquired Drupal.Com at great expense, and in donating it to Drupal, has shown sincere altruism and generosity and has made a significant contribution to the larger effort of creating a great open-source software product," said Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, an open source content management platform. "OpenDomain's generous donation will enable us to extend Drupal's presence and facilitate continued growth of the Drupal project. We are very grateful for this contribution."

"With OpenDomain, we have been able to share vital information with the Internet development community and educate the public about the power of the file format XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language)," added Ron DeSerranno, president of Mobiform. "OpenDomain has been instrumental in helping http://www.XAML.Net exceed its goals."

"OpenAjax Alliance is very excited and appreciative of OpenDomain's URL donation of OpenAjax.Org to OpenAjax Alliance. This enables a more intuitive Web address for the alliance and the community," said Jon Ferraiolo of IBM, speaking on behalf of the OpenAjax Alliance. "OpenAjax Alliance is an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax technologies, so donations like OpenDomain's help the organization continue its growth and campaigns."

OpenDomain will continue to make its donations available to anyone involved in open-source applications.

"We are pleased with the support we have seen for our efforts," Johnson said. "We have received plenty of offers to buy domain names we own, but we've never sold one. We remain committed to supporting open sourcing and the entrepreneurs who are developing the future of the Internet."

About OpenDomain

With OpenDomain - the "Open Source for Domains" - organizations and individuals can use a domain owned by OpenDomain and then freely put it to good use. This enables domains that otherwise would stand empty to be used for a good purpose and also offers an excellent opportunity to obtain a relevant domain URL. Learn more at http://www.OpenDomain.Org. OpenDomain is sponsored by http://www.Free.TV.

Contact: Thomas Becher John Lambert Associates (540) 772-3942 tbecher@jlapr.com

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Weblog: PR Web
Source: Todd Cardin Named Sales Manager For Pro Biz Designs
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Cardin Joins
(PRWEB) September 2, 2006 -- Todd Cardin was named sales manager for Pro Biz Designs. Pro Biz is a total design company based out of King of Prussia, PA. Todd Cardin has joined Pro Biz for a six month period to launch the new companies internet division. Much of Cardin's focus will be selling web site design.

Since the mid-1990's, Web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. In 1995 there were less than 1,000 Web development companies and in 2005 there are over 30,000 such companies. The Web development industry is expected to grow over twenty percent per year by 2010. The growth of this industry is being pushed by large businesses wishing to sell products and services to their customers and to automate business workflow.

In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case only five or six years ago, you can now develop a simple Web site with only a few hundred dollars.[citation needed As far as Web development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. A popular example is the LAMP which is usually distributed free of charge. This fact alone has manifested into many people around the globe setting up new Web sites daily and thus contributing to increase in Web development popularity. Another contributing factor has been the rise of easy to use WYSIWYG Web development software, most prominently Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Using such software, virtually anyone can develop a Web page in a matter of minutes. Knowledge of HyperText Markup Language or other programming languages is not required.

The next generation of Web development tools leverages the strong growth in Microsoft technologies to provide the Web as an application platform. Web developers now assist in delivering applications as Web services which were traditionally only available as local applications. So instead of running executable code on a local computer, users are interacting with online applications to create new content modalities. This has created new paradigms in communication and created many opportunities for decentralized information and media distribution. Users are now able to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.

Examples of dramatic transformation in communication and commerce led by Web development include e-commerce. Online auction sites such as E-bay have changed the way consumers consume and purchase goods and services. Online resellers such as Amazon.com and Buy.com have transformed the shopping and bargain hunting experience for many consumers. Another good example of transformative communication led by Web development is the blog. Web applications such as WordPress have created easily implemented blog environments for individual Web sites. Also, collaborative Web spaces and online communities such as MySpace and open source content systems such as Xoops, Joomla, and Drupal have extended Web development into new modes of interaction and communication.

Todd Cardin is excited to be a part of an exciting company like Pro Biz and hopes that in 2007 he can integrate his answering service companies with Probiz to provide a full service communications to small businesses everywhere.

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Weblog: Market Wire
Source: More Open, More MFG -- For $500/Month
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NORFOLK, VA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/10/06 -- OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today released the latest update to its namesake Enterprise Resource Planning application, announced an aggressive new pricing plan, and also contributed two new modules for a leading open source content management system.

The company's flagship product is an advanced ERP software solution built with open source components, such as the Linux operating system, the PostgreSQL database, and the OpenRPT report writer. Available OpenMFG modules include Inventory Management, Product Definition and Costing, Work Order Management, Master Scheduling and MRP, Capacity Planning, Purchase Order Management, Sales Order Management, Shipping and Receiving, Sales Analysis, Project Management, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and a full General Ledger.

Under OpenMFG's innovative hybrid license, customers and partners have full access to the application source code, and any enhancements made to the product flow back to OpenMFG for review, quality testing, and possible incorporation into the baseline product. Many of the over 140 enhancements in the new version 1.3.2 come from such community contributions, including shop floor labor collection, better support for process flow manufacturers, and "power tools" to help experienced OpenMFG users interface with other applications.

OpenMFG cuts against the grain of traditional ERP in other ways besides its hybrid licensing approach. The company has always published its pricing on the website, and the full details of a new pricing plan are now online. Customers can choose between a traditional perpetual license or a subscription-style annual license. The annual license is priced at $1,000 per user per year, with significant discounts for large numbers of users. It is also available under monthly billing, for as few as five concurrent users of the system. That means a company can get started with OpenMFG for as little as $5,000 per year, or $500 per month!

Another distinction between OpenMFG and conventional ERP companies is its community website at www.openmfg.org, which includes full public access to the internal bug tracker, documentation, and forums and mail lists. OpenMFG has released the source code of two significant enhancements to the Drupal open source CMS, which powers the OpenMFG.org site. The first is a new module that integrates Drupal with the popular Mantis bug-tracking system. It is available for download at www.drupal.org/project/bugbits. The second is a framework for mapping directories and files on a download server to user permission structures in a Drupal environment, available at www.drupal.org/project/ezdownload. Both projects use the popular PostgreSQL open source database. OpenMFG is actively soliciting developer contributions to both modules, which are in production use today at OpenMFG.org.

"We are continuing to change the rules for ERP software," said Ned Lilly, OpenMFG president and CEO. "As our community grows, our product improves by leaps and bounds; we have already begun major development efforts for OpenMFG version 2.0, in partnership with dozens of our systems integrators and end-user customers. But we are committed to maintaining the simplicity and ease-of-use for which OpenMFG has come to be known. That's why we're so excited to offer this new pricing -- now it's easier than ever for companies to get started with a powerful open source-based ERP solution."

The OpenMFG website even offers an online pricing calculator tool, to let users compare the three plans with different numbers of users, considered over various time horizons. The calculator is available at www.openmfg.com/pricing.

About OpenMFG

OpenMFG, LLC develops next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications powered by open source software such as Linux, PostgreSQL, and Qt. OpenMFG products give companies visibility into costs, supply chains, processes, inventory and financial operations with a lower cost of ownership than competing products, and are sold to end-user customers through a network of value added partners throughout North America. For more information, please visit the company Web site at www.openmfg.com.

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Weblog: drupal.org - General discussion
Source: Setup - Monthly Publication - 4 Editions
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I'm a fairly experienced web designer/developer, but completely green to Drupal.

I've read numerous ways that publication/newspaper sites have been implemented, and I've installed Drupal 4.7 with a number of modules. However, I just can't seem to fully get my mind around how to implement the whole structure of the site. I'm hoping the community here can help me make sense of this so I can get up and running.

I need to setup Drupal to work with a monthly publication. The publication has 4 editions. Each edition covers a different geographic community and is published at different times throughout the month. Previous months need to be archived, and viewable in the same format as current editions - as if looking at the front page of a newspaper. Some articles will overlap between editions.

My vision of the setup...

Home page displays the title of the top 5 stories from each edition, plus links to the "home page" of each edition.

Once you click view an edition, the left menu contains several categories (Top News, Sports, Real Estate, Business, etc) each linking to the stories from that current edition.

Archived editions will be accessible from an archive link that leads to a page listing all archive editions.

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I've installed epublish, views, plus taxonomy, archive and some other modules. I get lost using the epublish module as new stories are assigned to categories using vocabulary/terms but I can't automate the assignment of the story to an epubish publication/edition. A bit confusing.

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Weblog: Secunia - Latest Secunia Securit...
Source: Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
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A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

Weblog: 桑林志
Source: Drupal 的 Akismet module
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© 桑葚，来自桑林志 | Drupal 的 Akismet module

从 chris 那儿看到，已经有人发布了一个 Akismet module for Drupal。

Akismet 是 WordPress 的开发者们做的。最初作为 WordPress 的插件，现在是一个服务，开放了 API，可以为各种 blog 软件服务。现在主流的 blog 都有相关的插件了。

Akismet 是一个分布式的 anti-spam 系统，而且具有学习能力。用的人越多，运行的时间越长，效果越佳。

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Weblog: drupal.org aggregator
Source: Google News: Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability - SecuObs
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Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
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DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security ...

Weblog: drupal.org aggregator
Source: Google News: Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability - SecuObs
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Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
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DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security ...

Weblog: drupal.org aggregator
Source: Google News: Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability - SecuObs
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Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
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DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security ...

Weblog: drupal.org aggregator
Source: Google News: Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability - SecuObs
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Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
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DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security ...

Weblog: content management | SimplyHired
Source: Content Management Designer at EDP Recruiting Services (Denver, CO)
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This is a 9 month contract to implement and maintain our clients Web content management engine. Candidates with Joomla or Drupal will move to the top of the list. Our client maintains virtual offices, so candidates must be set up to work from home. We will not sponsor/transfer H1 Visas.

Weblog: Penmachine.com
Source: Lip Gloss and Laptops Episode #19: Gnomedex interviews and prize draw
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This episode of my wife's podcast is unusual, in that it's almost all interviews recorded at the Gnomedex tech conference over the beginning weekend of July 2006. But Airdrie and Kerry Anne do have an H20 Plus prize to give away! Listen to the episode on the web at the podcast shownotes page, or download the MP3 file directly (33 minutes, 14 seconds).

The first interview is with Robert Walch of Podcast411, and took place on the bus on the way to the Experience Music Project. You can see photos of Robert and the rest of our interviewees among all the Gnomedex photos at the photo sharing site Flickr.

Kris Krug was the official L&L photographer a few weeks ago, and also gives us a revealing interview.

Arieanna Schweber (she was Arieanne Foley until she recently married the fabulous Ianiv) discussed her 17 (!) blogs at Blogaholics.ca, her work with Qumana, and her beauty routines.

Finally, Boris Mann, who like KK works at Bryght in Vancouver, talks about Drupal, his groovy hair, and his concept of the Man Bench™.

All the interviews took place on Canada Day, July 1, 2006.

Weblog: drupal.org - General discussion
Source: Default Menu not showing in new Mollio install
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I had been using the mollio theme and had the default menu's working well (no drop downs yet but well).

http://yogayak.com/drupal

I needed to install a fresh mollio to help a friend modify the theme but now the Default Menu is just not showing up and I can't find any reference to why it would not be up.

All my menu structure is there and works when I switch themes.

Can anyone help?

Love and light,

Michel

Weblog: macCompanion Blog
Source: Joomla vs. Drupal
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Same, but different;

http://mactheweb.com/software-review/joomla-vs-drupal/

Weblog: PR Thoughts
Source: A new blog soon !
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I am actually finalizing my new blog that will be hosted on www.prthougths.xxx and will be revealed soon ! ;o)
For this reason, I am posting since today on the new one to have some content ready before I leave www.prthoughts.com as an open archive.

Stay tuned, I'll announce the official new URL in the very next days.

By the way, I am not going to publish it thanks to SquareSpace that I've been testing for several days, I have to say that I have not found it so intuitive and efficient as I was told it was. This might probably be due to my strong Typepad culture, I might not have been able to fit with it's spirit and to get use to it's mechanism. I have to say that I've been a bit lost with it's "module" feature, I haven't found it so easy to use at all.
Probably someone who is not used to any weblogging solution but begins in the blogosphere will have less issues adopting it. But not in my case.

Reading Philippe's post, who got Forrester's last report, it is interesting to see the Top 3 most used enterprise blogging plateforms in the world:
1. iUpload
2. Movable Type & WordPress
3. Telligent Systems, Traction Software, TypePad and Drupal.

Well, the choice I made for my new blog is in this Top 3.....;o)

Technorati Tags: forrester, iupload, squarespace

Weblog: Weblabor - a fejlesztői forrás
Source: Drupal alapok - azaz szamárkérdések
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Nagyon kezdő vagyok a Drupalban, s azért mereszkédtem egy ilyen témát kezdeni, hogy hátha van, akinek van ideje/kedve stb. segíteni egy-egy lőkéssel az előrehaladásban.

Rögtön az első kérdés: van-e Drupalban arra lehetőségem, hogy a már kész
statikus oldalakat (nem túl bonyolultak: html-ben formázott szöveg,
helyenként beszúrt képek stb.) egyszerűen beszúrjak az új portálba ... S ha van, akkor ezt hogy kell tenni, mert ... nem sikerült rájönnöm. (((Amúgy is nagyon kezdő vagyok a lapszerkesztésben - vajmi kis html ismerettel rendelkezek, amivel összehoztam egy lapot, s most Drupálra való átálláson gondolkodva/kisérletezve szeretném a korábbi művek egy részét is beilleszteni)))

Weblog: Fedora People
Source: Mayank Jain: Civicspace / Drupal.org Internship Program in India [2]
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With 75,000+ Drupal power websites and an emerging industry supporting over
150 professionals, the open-source Drupal project and community is exploding.
At the heart of this community is an incredibly active and productive group
of contributors. Creating contributed modules, themes, bug fixes, and core
enhancement, these individuals define the course of the Drupal project and
the ecosystem of users, tinkerers, and professionals around it.

Through this internship program we will attempt to train students from India
the ins and outs of Drupal and help them established themselves as long term
contributors to the Drupal project. Over two months the selected students
will work closely with project mentors on real world Drupal projects;
contributed modules, and core patches. They will learn the Drupal development
process and gain extremely valuable experience interacting with a live
open-source project. Students will be paid a stipend of 4,600 INR to 8,000
INR a month depending on the level of their contributions to the Drupal
project.

The type of candidate we are looking for:

* Doesn’t have to have a formal higher education in computer engineering * Doesn’t have to be pursuing personal projects relevant to Drupal * Doesn’t have to have job experience * Has to be a self starter * Has to be genuinely curious and interested in developing software * Has to have web application development experience * Has to be social and willing to provide support to others.

Applying to Summer Drupal training program in India can be done online at
http://drupal.in/training

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Weblog: skippy dot net
Source: Blinking and Flashing
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I'm trying out Drupal for the content management system at work. The current website is a complicated mass of Dreamweaver-managed files, with a drop-down menu system statically defined in every file, rather than through any kind of include mechanism.

A database-driven web-based means to manage the content is desparately needed. I considered — and even started working on — using WordPress for the new site. The needs are relatively modest, and I'm certainly familiar enough with WordPress that it's a reasonable starting point. But since we're re-engineering the whole site, I think that perhaps this is a good opportunity to evaluate other tools for the job, lest I remain a one-trick pony in the content management world.

Alas, Drupal is more complex than I expected, and it's taking me rather longer than I hoped to get the functionality I desire in place on a test implementation.

I know it's not just that Drupal is (or isn't) complex: it's my own preconceived notions about how things work making my learning curve greater. It's also the frustration that comes from knowing exactly how I'd do something with WordPress, but not knowing where to start to do the same thing in Drupal.

Overall I'm impressed with Drupal, despite the complexity. The taxonomy system is intuitive enough for organizing one's content. I dislike the default "node/" style URLs, though; and I dislike how cumbersome it is to construct meaningful URL aliases. Content editing is easy enough; and there are a few modules for image manipulation that really blow WordPress out of the water.

User management is vastly superior to what WordPress offers. Templating is both easy and hard, depending on what you want to do. Adding stuff to sidebars is accomplished via a menu-driven tool for just that purpose.

I'm going to keep plugging away for a while yet. Thankfully we don't (yet) have a deadline to convert the site, so I've got time to learn as much as I can. Feel free to share links to any howtos or other documents you might have found helpful if you're a Drupal user!