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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards
Packt Publishing has anounced the winners in the 2008 Most Promising Open Source CMS category of their annual competition. Silverstripe and CMS Made Simple took home first and second place. I am very happy report that MiaCMS came in 3rd place overall tied with another terrific Content Management System named ImpressCMS.
And also kudos to the master, Chad Auld, for being named in Packt Publishing’s 2008 list of “Most Valued People from Open Source Content Management Systems“.
It is absolutely delightful to experience this kind of recognition for our project.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
MiaCMS yet had another release a few days ago. MiaCMS 4.6.5 release has a few cool additions to it. Here is a list of things happened in the latest MiaCMS release.
The MiaCMS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 4.6.5. This release fixes old bugs and adds a good bit of new and/or enhanced functionality. In addition to the release itself we have launched the new miacms.org site and the redesigns of our forum and wiki.
Here are the release cliff notes:
1. Cache Fixes & Enhancements
2. Enhanced Statistics & Poll Result Charting
3. New Templates, Site Designs, & the Official Logo
4. External Library Updates
5. Enhanced Commenting & Akismet (Spam Blocker)
6. Performance Improvements & Dynamic YUI Loader
If you’re using MiaCMS 4.6.4, or a Mambo 4.6x family CMS, I would surely recommend you upgrade to Mia 
Here are a few screen shots;
http://miacms.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=46
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
I recently got a snapshot of ocszone.com ‘s visitors.
We technically have visitors from all the livable continents of the planet.We don’t have visitors from the Arctic but so what!!! The scientists have better things to do other than visiting ocszone.com 
That’s really amazing.
*that’s only a 500 plot snapshot of Sept. 2007 visitors.
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Another first from Brilaps. A brand new native G1 application to search the blogosphere.
Andorati is a Technorati.com client that brings the blogosphere search to your G1 Phone. Pick your tag, or type your search. You’ll get the latest of what’s being blogged around the world.
Andorati also features an easy bookmarking mechanism. You can add the blog, and the blog post to your browser bookmarks. This way, you can also access those sites from the G1′s web browser later on. (*hint: Andorati also implements a multi-select bookmark cleanup feature)
The initial beta release of Andorati is “Andorati4Geeks“. Andorati for Geeks require that you have an APIKey from Technorati to enable the searches. The APIKey is assigned to you when you register a free account on Technorati.com (http://technorati.com/developers/)
Andorati4Geeks 1.1 Released on 2008-12-22.
Release Notes: AndoratiReleaseNotes
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Link exchange between the sites just don’t cut it anymore. “Cross-site information sharing” paradigm is growing into a greedy monster requiring new ways to expose your content. RSS has been holding up really good in that front. Given that you can put together – mash up- a website filled with thousands of articles in a matter minutes; it seems like, RSS over-accomplished its task. So what’s next ?
Today, core Mambo and Joomla! are both lacking good RSS facilities. You can only share your “Front page content” via RSS in Mambo (probably the same for J!). If you are keeping only one content item with some “never-updated-flashy” short content, your RSS feed is technically useless to the rest of the world. You can find a good RSS extension, which would cover that scenario.
Question
What if you want to expose more from your CMS site ?
Answer:
With the addition of the Brilaps REST API, MiaCMS, Mambo, Joomla! will allow for advanced external interaction. Meaning that interaction with the site and its content no longer has to occur directly through normal browsing methods. For the first time you can start to consume Mambo’s internals as external services via the data type of your choosing (i.e.) JSON, XML, or Serialized PHP.
How?
Brilaps REST API, MOStlyREST provides the com_rest as a base library that takes care of the message receipt and packaging back to the caller. Brilaps also released a few other goodies that goes along with the base implementation that the other 3rd party developers can use as samples or extend from those. com_rest_content and com_rest_stats components sit on top of the base component(com_rest) and expose your “top ranked”, “most popular” articles, or articles for certain sections/categories, or your site stats to any application that’s capable of parsing some simple XML.
Why?
Why do want to REST enable your Mambo or Joomla! site? One simple answer to that is, larger audience. Larger audience is both audience as in visitors and utilizing applications.
A few examples:
- You can have one MiaCMS site as a content repository, and expose parts of content to multiple other sites that you own. See the sample application, SMRC, to imagine different possiblities.
- You can have a widget like Bridget,
that you can distribute to your visitors to track or search your site at the comfort of a desktop application.
- this list can go on and on, but I leave it up to the implementers and site owners imagination
Next?
I believe, REST enabled MiaCMS, Mambo and Joomla! sites will change the landscape of the content management landscape covered by MiaCMS, Mambo and Joomla!. Indeed, that’s a pretty large landscape. I guess, we just sit back and watch what’s gonna happen next…
For questions and comments about the REST API for MiaCMS, you can visit http://forum.brilaps.com
*Same article is also posted on Chad’s site; http://www.opensourcepenguin.net . If you’d like a take a peek at some other cool stuff, browse on.
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Act III: Function the Ultimate. We’re going to be talking about functions tonight. Functions are the very best part of JavaScript. It’s where most of the power is, it’s where the beauty is. Like everything else in JavaScript, they’re not quite right, but you can work around that, and there’s a lot of good stuff here.
Keep watching for the rest….
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Another cool gadget from Brilaps just hit the wires.
iMia is a web application focused on bringing a standard iPhone web interface to the MiaCMS, Mambo, and Joomla! content management systems. Yes, the iPhone does have a full web browser that is capable of displaying any site, so it is possible to use these content management systems without iMia. However, the experience is often less than appealing since users must constantly zoom in, zoom out, pinch to expand and contract, etc. As with most web sites and/or applications, these content management systems were coded with the desktop browser in mind. This is were iMia comes in…
iMia brings a simple web interface to the MiaCMS, Mambo, and Joomla! content management systems for iPhone users. The application is designed in accordance with the recommended iPhone interface design guidelines laid out by Apple. iMia makes use of the iui project’s fabulous efforts in this area.
Learn more on the product page here – http://wiki.brilaps.com/wikka.php?wakka=iMia.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Today, Brilaps released version 0.8 of Mia chat -Ajax web based chat- application. Chad Auld states, “This release is stable enough for everyday use and has undergone a great deal of testing on the various popular platforms and browsers. We have been using it to do all our own chatting for months now and we’re loving it. We are nearing a 1.0 release, but have a few new tricks to try before then”. Mia Chat is released under the MIT License. For more information about Mia Chat go here.
Edit: Mia Chat and MiaCMS are entirely different applications. Mia Chat is a a standalone web application. It cannot be installed as an extension on MiaCMS.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
If you’re a MiaChat user, you better hurry and upgrade to the 0.8.3 version. This minor release from Brilaps, updates the HTMLPurifier library included with the distro in order to bring you a safer ajax chat application.
Grab your mia-chat at http://code.google.com/p/mia-chat/downloads/list
*by the way, MiaChat is not related to, or an extension to MiaCMS
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