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…
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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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…