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dotCMS 1.9 Upgrade Preview

// October 23rd, 2009 // 7 Comments » // Software, Tech, Web

The upcoming dotCMS 1.9 update is still at least about a couple months away from release (give or take), but the current SVN trunk code is already starting to shape up with a lot of the upcoming enhancements.  After testing out some of the new code, I thought it’d be worthwhile to share some screenshots [...]

dotCMS Cheat Sheet Released

// September 16th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Software, Web

Hey everyone.  Just a quick hello to let you know that I’ve put some work into releasing a dotCMS Cheat Sheet for everyone to print off and use as a quick reference for a lot of basic tasks and variables.  This is up to date with the latest 1.7a open source release.  I hope to [...]

Help me find a telescope

// August 9th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // General, Tech

As a kid, I was an astronomy nut.  I wanted to be an astronomer, and was learning all things space.  As I grew, I got out of that phase, though I still retained my interest.  About six or seven years ago I managed to lay my hands on a serviceable 8″ Meade Newtonian reflecting telescope [...]

Running Multiple Blogs in dotCMS

// August 5th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Software, Tech, Web

Earlier today, a question was raised on Twitter about how one handles multiple blogs using dotCMS.  Out of the box, dotCMS comes with a rather decent blogging system.  And with some tweaking, that decent system can pretty much kick the ass of anything Wordpress driven any day of the week.  That’s so long as you’re [...]

Two dotCMS Plugins Released

// March 11th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Software, Web

With the plugin architecture in dotCMS launched with the release of the version 1.7 release candidates, several of us are getting started testing out the water.  To get things started, I’ve released two plugins this week you can download and install.  Nothing huge, but hopefully helpful to some folks.
XMLTool Plugin
The XMLTool plugin creates a view [...]

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