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Drupal Experiment

Ich habe meinen Blog in letzter Zeit funktional nicht erweitert. Das hängt damit zusammen, das ich nebenbei immer mit ein paar neuen Ideen experimentiere. Bislang habe ich für alle Web-Experimente eine lokale Xampp Installation und WordPress genutzt. Ich bilde mir mittlerweile ein, das Konzept und die Architektur von WordPress einigermaßen verstanden zu haben. Somit bin ich relativ schnell in der Lage die Komplexität der technischen Umsetzung einer Idee beurteilen zu können. Die Stärken von WordPress liegen in der Vielzahl an verfügbaren Plugins, dem leicht verständlichen Template System, der guten Dokumentation und der großen & hilfsbereiten Community. Für die Realisierung von Blogs ist WordPress aus meiner Sicht auf jeden Fall immer die erste Wahl.

WordPress stößt für mich jedoch an seine Grenzen, wenn es um den Aufbau komplexerer Webprojekte geht. Dinge wie User-Rollen Management, Zugangskontrolle, Taxonomy Modul-übergreifend, Einbindung von Foren, etc. Viele dieser Dinge lassen sich auch in WordPress implementieren, jedoch muss man dann wirklich selber programmieren. Mit den zur Verfügung stehenden Boardmitteln lässt sich sowas dann nicht mehr so einfach realisieren.

Ich habe mich nach langem hin und her dafür entschieden Drupal eine Chance zu geben. In der engeren Wahl stand noch Joomla. Beide CMS sind Modulartig aufgebaut und erfreuen sich einer großen Beliebtheit. Einen richtigen ausschlaggebenden Grund gab es nicht, sich für das Eine oder Andere System zu entscheiden. Verfolgt man die Diskussion ein wenig genauer, dann läuft es zusammenfassend wohl darauf hinaus:

  • Drupal: Sauber programmiert; Komplexer für Einsteiger; Sehr gut erweiterbar und anpassbar
  • Joomla: Flachere Lernkurve; Große Community; Limitierungen was sehr komplexe Projekte anbelangt

Das ist zumindestens das, was ich auch den Zwischenzeilen herauslesen konnte. Ich bin ja auch kein Experte für Software Architektur Fragen. 🙂 Interessanterweise sei noch erwähnt, das IBM mehrere Open-Source CMS Systeme evaluiert hat um sich dann für Drupal zu entscheiden.

Kurzum. Ich habe bei Hosteurope einen Linux VServer gemietet und werde in nächster Zeit auf selbigem meine lokale Drupal Installation migrieren. Mal schauen wie schnell ich vorankomme.

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Video: Open Source at Microsoft

I like to listen and learn from people who provide you with interesting insights and a structured approach to explain how things business is working. What drives the competition? What are the strategic options for a company in a certain industry? How do competitive forces effect the industry profitablity? etc.

Bill Hilf

A company that is succesful for more then two decades, is the largest software maker in the world – Microsoft. An interesting questions from a strategic perspective is how MS should deal with Open Source Software providers? Incorporate proprietary standards? Provide API’s? etc. How should the long term strategy look like for MS in regards to OSS? Bill Hilf is General Manager of Platform Strategy at Microsoft and got interviewed by channel9. He provides some very interesting insights. He used a model termed “donut model” to explain the corporate strategy approach of the various industry players in the software market. Don’t missed! 🙂

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Microsoft releases own Blogging Client Software

Take a look here. I must say so far so good. The Software looks very promising and seems to be stable including all the necessary features (preview, insert options, support for multiple blogging plattforms, etc) . Two minor glitches with the installation routine:

  1. Administration rights are needed for installation. Why?
  2. Proxy settings are automatically taken from MS Inet Explorer. Why?

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Vyatta – The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom

Did i miss something? Is Vyatta the next Asterisk? I came across the site after playing a little bit around with del.icio.us and the tag “telecom”.  Based on a quick scan of articles, Vyatta  seems to be something like a open-source router software running. If i have some spare time, perhaps i will dig a little bit deeper into the story behind Vyatta. For all the people out there, Om Malik – as always – already covered Vyatte in his blog. (Source: The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom – March 1, 2006)

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New poll: Are you using Skype?

First official post in 2006. I just added a new poll questions: Are you using Skype?
I wanted to know a little bit more about you Skype-behaviour. What features of Skype are you using on a daily basis. Is Skype your favorit Instant Messaging application (chatting) or is it more. Are you making voice phone calls with Skype, and are these calls all on-net calls (pc2pc) or also skype-in & skype-out? I would be happy if you answer the question. Hint: The poll is integrated in the sidebar, directly under my flickr photos.

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Omnidrive – Online Storage File Service

OmnidriveTechchrunch has an small article about a online storage file service called Omnidrive. The service is scheduled for launch in January 2006.

Planned features of Omnidrive are:

  • Virtual network driver. You are able to mount Omnidrive as harddrive under windows.
  • Browser Toolbar (Firefox?)
  • built in media player to access media files
  • set upload and download speeds to work in the background
  • Omnidrive will pick up where it left off after rebooting computer
  • RSS for folders
  • tagging of files
  • permanent URL for each file
  • syncing of folders on a hard drive to the Omnidrive
  • each Shared folder has separate access controls

According to Techchrunch the “they will give a gig or two of storage for free, and sell 10 gb bundles above that for “not more thanâ€? $70 per year. That’s pricy, but way below the industry standard right now.”

I mean it’s usefull and i’d like to have the option to access my own files (music, pictures, videos, etc.) from every Inet connected device in the world. But how large is my willingness to pay for such a service? 1-2 Gigabyte isn’t much space. I only need around 20 Gigabytes for my music collection.

From my point of view Google or Microsoft (service bundling with the OS) will provide such a service in the future. Google has the infrastructure, their business is indexing, crawling and selling advertisement space. For example, based on my personal music files/tastes Google will automatically advertise some new CD’s or Artist.

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Software: Stay connected with ‘Hamachi’ (P2P VPN)

It’s always very interesting to find some new pieces of software on the world wide web. This time i found a link to a site called hamachi. It seems to be something like a P2P VPN Client software for windows Linux & Windows. Quote:

With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.
Hamachi is fast, secure and simple. It is also free. Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking application with an open security architecture and NAT-to-NAT traversal capabilities.

Sounds nice? Perhaps i should give it a try and write a review latter of it.

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