Jul
20
Poster Art is Alive and Well
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I was very happy to stumble across this site today that shows me the art of the poster is alive and well: http://www.powertotheposter.org . I love poster design because the medium lends itself very well to bold, simple and poignant ideas.
Jun
23
What Open Source Is (and is not)
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I have been working on open source projects for almost as long as I have been a programmer. In the course of my career and my work on SkyBlueCanvas and WYMeditor, I have interacted and talked with a lot of people about open source. There are a lot of misconceptions about what Open Source is and is not.
May
24
I have moved all of the SkyBlueCanvas project code to Source Forge to try to better organize all of the resources. You can view the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/skybluecanvas/
Mar
26
I have posted a new update of SkyBlueCanvas version 1.1 (r247). This latest update fixes a few bugs and integrates some of the more commonly-used add-ons into the standard distribution. The new release is aimed at making template conversion much easier.
Mar
14
I am very happy to announce that the first ever commercially available Premium Template, designed by Qiming Weng, has been released on ThemeForest.net.
Jan
26
At the end of May of 2009, I prematurely announced that SkyBlueCanvas version 2.0 was nearly ready for an alpha release. It was a little embarrassing to have to redact that announcement but SkyBlueCanvas is an one-man outfit supported by my day job, so it can be difficult at times to find the time and [...]
May
30
A New Milestone for SkyBlueCanvas
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I have just completed the coding for SkyBlueCanvas version 1.2. The new version is an important milestone for the lightweight CMS because it is the first version to fully implement i18n (internationalization) support, the MVC (model view controller) design pattern and a lightweight ACL (access control list) to support multiple users and access permissions.
Mar
7
SkyBlueCanvas in the Media
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SkyBlueCanvas has received some nice media attention in recent weeks. So I thought I would write a quick post to link to the sites that have been kind enough to give us some attention. All of these sites as well as the entire open source community are funded in large part by donations and sponsor ads and affiliate programs. Please support their sites and their sponsors.
Mar
7
Fragmentor Plugin for SkyBlueCanvas
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Fragmentor is a plugin to be used instead of or alongside the default Fragment Plugin in SkyBlueCanvas. Fragmentor provides template and fragment developers an alternative and much more flexible syntax for loading dynamic content views (fragments) into SkyBlueCanvas web pages. Since the plugin uses a different syntax from the default fragment plugin, it will not conflict with it. With Fragmentor, you can pass an arbitrary number of key=< value pairs of data from your article text or template file.
Mar
7
Editable Sidebar Content Hack
Filed Under Extensions, Fragments, Plugins, SkyBlueCanvas CMS | 5 Comments
A few nights ago, Steve Fister, one of the SkyblueCanvas Development Team Members posed the question again and offered a few ideas on how to pull it off. After thinking about Steve’s suggetions, I realized that this is actually quite easy to do. In fact, with Steve’s idea, you can add an editable text block anywhere on a web page. What’s more, with a little SkyBlueCanvas Skin Magic, you can build page-specific text blocks, so if you want a different block of text to appear on different pages, you can do it with this trick.