Gadgetopia

Mambo Open Source: Mambo server is a PHP/MySQL-based content management system. The marketing material doesn't reveal much: "Mambo Open Source is the finest open source Web Content Management System available today. Mambo Open Source makes communicating via the Web easy. Have you always wanted to have your own site but ...

I was in Barnes and Noble tonight, and I noticed a few things. There were four books on the shelves having to do with Mambo and/or Joomla (I refuse to add the exclamation point). This is the first time I've seen books on those systems in my local store. I ...

A convoluted Mambo: Why open source software needs usability Nazis: A good rant over at TeleRead about the state of usability in open-source software -- Mambo, in this case. I also wonder if the Geek Snobbery Factor may have been at work. So often, leadership within open source efforts is ...

Tossing this out for discussion and/or flaming In what order are the top open-source content management systems, from biggest to smallest? Yes, it s vague. By biggest, I mean a back-of-the-napkin estimation of factors like number of installs, number of developers, size of community, magnitude of momentum, strength of buzz, ...

10 Best Intranets of 2005: I actually purchased this full report back in 2001. The price has gone way up it was $44 then; $128 now. However, if you're in the middle of an intranet rebuild like I was at the time, it's worth it for the screenshots alone. ...

Note: After you read this, make sure you read the first few comments for a considerable expansion of what I ve written here. GPL compliance issues are tearing Joomla! apart: There are some problems in the Joomla! camp. After they forked from Mambo, they decided to let companies develop and sell ...

I read a great white paper on open-source content management last night called "Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions." In it, the author examines several different scenarios and profiles over a dozen different open-source content management systems, explaining the key features of each and why it's right for the ...

Making A Better Open Source CMS, by Jeffrey Veen: This is a great article -- a rant, really -- about how much the author thinks the open-source CMS offerings just plain suck. He laments about a lot of things I agree with. The real goldmine, however, are the comments. There ...

A friend and I are looking at a bunch of different content management systems for a church Web site. We've been discussing the merits of the various approaches, and looking at some open source offerings like Mambo, Typo3, and eZ publish. During this, I've struck upon a concept that I ...

(Note: this post exists in both written and audio form. They re more or less the same thing, so take your pick. I elaborate a bit more in the audio, since I have a tendency to ramble, but I used the written post as an outline for the audio post, ...