After releasing dotCMS 2.2 in October, we will be releasing dotCMS 2.3 the first week of May of 2013. There are a lot of new features, improvements and fixes in this upcoming release. Here is a sneak peek of a few of them.
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dotCMS has a built-in OSGI plugin that allows a developer to use the standard Spring Web MVC framework. This post shows how to also create and access Spring Beans from other classes, such as a Controller.
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Once you know dotCMS is the right product to host your website, one of the questions that is next to be answered is: "how many servers will I need?"
In this blog you will find the description of the basic set of environments that we recommend you to plan for during your initiation phase.
Also in the blog, we will talk about the different strategies you may follow to launch your new sites hosted in dotCMS and the life cycle that you will need to considered once your new website is live.
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This is a procedure to get up and running with dotCMS on an Amazon EC2 instance, using the Amazon AMI (CentOS).
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Sponsored by HCA, the development of the Secure Form plugin allows the communication between public and private dotCMS instances so that the information submitted in a form is captured, transferred, and stored securely.
This post will give you a brief idea of how the basic submit process provided by the dotCMS Form Handler functionality has been modified to achieve a higher lever of security.
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This blog will show you a step by step guide to create a keyword faceted search in dotCMS 2.1.
Learn how to create a new “keywords” tag field on your content types, use the tags as meta keywords on your templates and use ElasticSearch to create a keyword faceted search.
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This article will walk you through how to build a dynamic YouTube widget in dotCMS. You will learn how to use the YouTube API to search for videos and save them in your widget using Dojo.
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After releasing dotCMS 2.0 in May we’re set to release dotCMS 2.1 by the end of July. Here is a sneak peak of the features that will be released soon, hope you enjoy using them as much as our R&D team did building them!
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The forum plugin was developed as a way to easily deploy the common functionalities of a forum on your dotCMS website. It offers a solution where discussions can take place, with forum members able to contribute and subscribe to topics and threads.
Although a plugin needs to be deployed to take advantage of all of the features, the forum is based mainly on velocity code, structures and existing macros.
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In this blog post we will discuss how to implement a Document Management System using dotCMS and utilize Files as Content.
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dotCMS 2.0 now comes with support for the widely popular Spring MVC Web development framework.
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The dotCMS CTO walks through two new features included in dotCMS, Custom Fields and URL Mapping.
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CMIS has been called a glorified wrapper for Document Management. But we are finding that CMIS answers many of web content management integration questions as well.
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The Rehabilitation Act was amended with section 508 a little over 10 years ago to require Federal agencies to deliver their electronic information in such a way that it is accessible for individuals with disabilities or impairments of some kind (low vision or low hearing for example). Section 508 mandates implementation of the accessibility measures set forth by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Despite all the fancy plugins, widgets, and fancy macros, the dotCMS really helps your website do just three simple things: store, retrieve, and display website data. Carefully designed wireframes help you plan how to display data but not necessarily how to properly label, segregate, and store it. This article makes some suggestions on how to take advantage of dotCMS taxonomies so that content can be retrieved and displayed easily and efficiently.
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Giving support to dotCMS EE clients on dealing with bugs that may restraint the proper behavior of their websites is one of the main goals to be achieved under dotCMS Enterprise model.
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It's been roughly two months since we included Dojo as part of the dotCMS core javascript framework. We chose Dojo after evaluating the most popular frameworks out there including JQuery, mootools, prototype/scriptaculous and YUI. Each of these frameworks is pretty good but none is perfect. Although none of them met all our requirements, Dojo was clearly the best fit due to its extensive set of rich widgets and form controls.
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Updating content in Flash can be cumbersome and time consuming. Thankfully, simply reading content from a simple JavaScript (or XML) file provides an alternative to importing assets and recompiling a flash file for swf.
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Validating large sites can be a daunting task. Aside from being aware of HTML best practices, it’s useful to understand some dotCMS idiosyncrasies and commonly encountered errors.
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Anyone can be a content editor in the dotCMS. No need to know any HTML or CSS, just fill in the blanks and select "Save and Publish" and you're set. This is not only true for the popular form-like "Add/Edit Content" page, but this concept also extends to one of the lesser known out-of-the-box tools of the dotCMS: the CSV import tool.
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Have you ever worked within a CMS and thought to yourself, “I wish I could knock out a script in something I'm more familiar with?" If so, you're going to love the new dotCMS Scripting plugin. This plugin allows you to execute server side code directly from Velocity in these popular scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Groovy and Javascript. You can declare variables in your velocity code and use them within your scripting language. You can call methods or functions in your script (from Velocity). Best of all, you can access any dotCMS Java class directly from your php/ruby/js/python/groovy scripts.
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There have been previous attempts to integrate PHP with dotCMS. The
most difficult hurdle was figuring out how to get PHP files to live
within the dotCMS browser tree and have all INCLUDES and REQUIRES work
properly, which is key to running any PHP app in dotCMS. While the
original effort to integrate PHP into dotCMS eventually lost steam,
interest in a PHP+dotCMS solution remained strong. The good
news is that with our new Scripting Plugin, we took a little different
approach to integrating PHP with dotCMS and in doing so, solved the
issues that originally stopped us.
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After a couple of large scale multilingual implementations in of dotCMS we thought we should share some of the lessons learned and recommend some best practices. Over the years we have implemented many "bilingual" sites, however in the process of implementing an extensive and diverse multi-lingual site we had to find solutions to a number of challenges.
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I'm going to highlight the features that any Content Management System (CMS) worthy of the acronym should offer. I think there are concepts, best practices and technologies related to this term that the many CMSs offer in varying degrees.
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The pending release of dotCMS 1.7 is the most stable, solid, performant release of dotCMS to date. We have spent countless hours and development cycles improving and QAing the multitude of functionality included in dotCMS. There are also a host of new features, which we’ll talk about later. So of course all that’s great news. Blah, blah, blah.
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Riffing on the facebook and social networking meme to reveal all about yourself, dotCMS is pleased to respond to Kas Thomas's "reality checklist" for CMS vendors.
We hope that these responses prove, prove! the fact that we here at dotCMS get it. But there is one thing we still don't get - how can we have a cool star rating graphic like Magnolia, Alfresco and Day have?
Boris, thanks for the tag and congratulations on Magnolia's 4.0 release. See Boris's Blog.
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