Posts Tagged ‘open source’

WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” has finally been released and is available for inmediate download. The list of additions is quite impressive, might be the largest update to WP so far.

Tags: cms, open source

WordPress 2.9 Release Candidate 1 is out. The blog announcement states that the final version will be out before sunday.

Tags: cms, development, open source

The Blender Foundation released the long awaited alpha of Blender 2.5. the open source 3d package.

Tags: open source

The Chromium OS open source project has been released today and Google provided more information about their future operating system targeted at netbooks, along with screenshots of the user interface explaining the concept behind and a video with a brief demo of the OS.

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Tags: browser, google, open source, web application

Asaph, a micro-blogging system, to easily collect and publish links and images. You can create an ffffound-like site like the the Asaph demo.

Tags: open source, web application

Although there are specific softwares for social networks, WordPress MU, the multi user version of WordPress, has the potential to be transformed into a social platform. WordPress MU is what powers the WordPress.com blogs, handling millions of blogs so you can get an idea of its power. But WPMU doesn’t offer the social network functionality out of the box.

Enter BuddyPress, the social network plugin for WordPress. We will learn how to setup BuddyPress on top of WordPress MU. Read more

Tags: buddypress, cms, development, open source, plugin, social network, web application

eCommerce is not new. It is now one of the most important applications of internet along with e-mail, e-learning, chat and social networks. However, in the last few years a whole new world started in eCommerce CMS. New contenders like Magento challenge the long time champion osCommerce and even a medium CMS like WordPress and a hardcore CMS like Plone have their eCommerce plugin.

The following list doesn’t attempt to be perfect neither showcase the best CMS. It is merely a review of the most popular eCommerce specific CMS out there, both open source and paid ones. In the end, there’s a list of eCommerce plugins for some generic CMS like WordPress, Drupal or Plone. Read more

Tags: cms, development, e-commerce, open source, plugin, web application, wordpress themes