You might have noticed that the landing page on 3mension.com now has a brand new template, currently (still) telling you that we’re under construction. It was also my first attempt at adding jQuery functionality to the 3mension website, and I must say I’m quite impressed by the functionality and the ease of the integration. Given that jQuery is standard included in ImpressCMS, I plan to use it much more often in the future.
I skipped mentioning some ImpressCMS releases, but this one is too important to just pass over it. The ImpressCMS project has released version 1.2 final of their Community Management System (CMS).
This release contains many changes, enhancements and new functionality, with the most important ones listed here:
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ImpressCMS 1.2 has released its first beta. This is quite old news, but given that 3mension is building upon the 1.2 codebase, it certainly was worth mentioning. The release of the beta marks the feature freeze of the 1.2 codebase, so the functionality that is available in the beta should give a good indication of what to expect in the upcoming release candidates and final release packages.
The team is still working hard to get the release stable and secure. I you would like to see what is coming in Read more…
I’ve been working on and off on the first beta incarnation of 3mension, but most of that effort has been invisible in code. That is about to change, as I have started contacting some logo design contractors in order to create a logo for 3mension.com.
This is a significant step, as the logo will be used as the base for the theme created for the website. It will also help with the development of the site, as it is the first really visible part of the site that falls into place.
It seems ImpressCMS 1.2 might come out before the 3mension site goes live. A beta of ImpressCMS 1.2 is forthcoming, and the package should be feature-complete by now. During the wait for answers on the queries for a logo design, I plan to migrate all the work that is done towards that version, in order to have the newly added functionality and enhancements at my disposal.
After a slightly longer wait than foreseen, the ImpressCMS project has released the second Alpha of the upcoming 1.2 version into the wild. This is the next step towards a beta release, which will be coming if no major problems are found in the next few weeks with this alpha.
The ImpressCMS 1.2 branch is particularly interesting, as it marks the end of Xoops compatibility. That doesn’t mean the developers are trying to break as much of the Xoops functionality just for the heck of it of course. It does mean that ImpressCMS can choose its own path to greatness, Read more…
Contrary to my previous post, development of the impressCMS module is advancing steadily. I’m no seasoned iCMS developer, and neither am I a PHP guru, so it is taking quite some time to achieve functionality some might wrap together in a few hours. Most of the time, I’ve been experimenting with possible approaches to code organisation and finding my way in the iCMS API documentation.
I am happy to announce that Read more…
Since last weekend, I have been working on imRating, an ImpressCMS module that will provide a standardized way for modules to handle voting of content and showing ratings. The module is based upon the structure of the similar imTagging module.
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The roadmap for the next evolution of ProjectPier, a web-based project management tool based in origin on the popular BaseCamp application, has finally been published at http://www.projectpier.org/roadmap/0.8.5, after a six-month hiatus in communications.
The new release 0.8.5 is to be named Santa Monica (after the Santa Monica Pier, pun definitely intended), Read more…
April has passed, and it’s time to report with an update. At the moment, not much is visible of the progress that has been made thus far, but that’s not a correct view of the situation. I thought I might give an update on where the project is headed, what has been done, and what remains to be done.
My previous post, a long time ago, I elaborated a bit on the difficult choice between ImpressCMS and Xoops. As I read in the ImpressCMS forums, ‘A line is being drawn in the sand’, and these two CMS packages are each going their separate ways, without regard for compatibility between one another. That means one has to make a choice, and recently making that choice became much more difficult due to the evolving nature of the projects. Read more…
I have been working on a Xoops module to take care of the most important part of the site : the publishing and retrieval of 3d models. It’s rather crude at the moment, and I also have another fear: while Xoops is rather easy to get a working module for, the community is severely lacking some of the more polished modules/plugins one can find in more complex CMS platforms, such as Joomla or Drupal.
There is much work to be done to get the loose modules working together and the Xoops platform has lost much of its momentum last year during the period of infighting that spawned forks like ImpressCMS, chasing many talented developers away.
I seem to be coping at the moment, but it just seems more work to get to a point where other systems can take you with a standard install.