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Poor Man's CMS - development info
Time is running! Nearly 4 month since my last 'development info' news. So it's time to tell you the state of the art.
Poormans has now two nice features: the overdue support of hierarchical levels and a gallery with thumbnails! All images of a gallery are rendered to their preferred size, so you get the optimum for viewing quality and loading time in your exported site. I've written a rendering unit which is caching each image rendered for previewing. This image cache is used in order to avoid multiple rendering and to speed up the export process.
The next file release (commited in a few hours) will be a feature release. The release after that will be the first stable release (I hope.)!
In the near future, there are two sites which will be managed by poormans. One of these is a very heavy gallery site. I'm curious about how effective poormans can handle this site.
Maybe I will open a new column at poormans' website, where I will report the development of a new website managed by poormans and the experience users.
2006-07-17 11:50:06 UTC by th-schwarz
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Poor Man's CMS - development info
Poor Man's CMS (poormans) is a very basic CMS running as a swt application and generating static html pages.
Once again, it is time for some news about poormans' development status. I've been working hard and learned a lot! ;-) Please remember, poormans is my playground to test things, I'm interested in.
Inspired by an article in the german 'JavaMagazin' about the java-based installer generater IzPack, I decided poormans should get one.
Having a user-friendly installer, I recognized, the way to start poormans wasn't really user-friendly, because you needed ant and you have to call an ant target. So I've written my own launcher, which checks the os and starts poormans in the right way. That was a tricky bit for me, because I've never written my own classloader, which is needed to have a small launcher. Now I have a launcer jar with 2.6kb. Another tricky bit was to write the classloader in a way that doesn't collidate with the classloader of spring.
And of course, there are many bug-fixes and some necessary code cleanups.
2006-03-08 09:46:16 UTC by th-schwarz
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Poor Man's CMS - development info
Poor Man's CMS (poormans) is a very basic CMS running as a swt application and generating static html pages.
After a break of 2 months I'm working on poormans again. While this downtime I was working at a web application based on the spring framework. An outstanding open-source project! Inspired by this experiences I'm currently rearrange the initialization/configuration stuff. Because, there isn't any new feature, I didn't commit a new file release of the distribution version.
HINT: There is a bug on SWT's browser component under some linux systems, that crashes the JVM. This has happend, if you are using the fie-upload-dialog of the FCKeditor. I've reported this bug!
If you are interested of my next steps, have a look at the website.
2006-02-15 11:09:06 UTC by th-schwarz
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Poor Man's CMS goes SWT
At the very beginning poormans was a servlet based web application running on a local pc. Now poormans is completely rearranged and has grown up to a nice swt application. Being in an early beta state, there are a few bugs.
I hope, you enjoy it!
2005-11-29 19:15:34 UTC by th-schwarz
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New release of the distribution file
Poor Man's CMS (poormans) is a very basic CMS running on a local pc, generating static html pages.
This is the second file release of the distribution version. It's very easy to install and tested. Being in a very early alpha state, it's usable but not very fanzy.
At the moment, the gui is under hot development. This release is one step to a rewritten gui.
Changes:
- GUI now works with IE6 (thanks to Dominique for doing a lot of tests)
- WYSIWYG editor improvements
- lot of bugfixes
- updated some basic libraries and fckeditor
2005-10-15 10:42:43 UTC by th-schwarz
