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Give PNG a chance* Stoyan Stefanov
This is a screencapture of playing the thing in WebKit (Safari). The video is done in pure HTML, JavaScript and CSS with no images. The fancy new WebKit animation additions to CSS make it look like a flash a bit. Instead of images, I used HTML entities.
More info:
http://givepngachance.com
http://phpied.com/give-png-a-chance/
Lyrics:
http://www.phpied.com/help-write-lyrics
A few months ago, I had developed a silly Facebook application that I never mentioned here. Hextatus it is.
http://apps.facebook.com/hextatus/
Hextatus (hex-ta-tus) displays your status in hexadecimal form. So you may just look geekier or cooler or nerder !
You can also post hex encoded Notes to your Wall.
Plain Text Status -> Hexadecimal Status
Plain Text Note -> Hexadecimal Note
Be warned, you may have a lot of your friends with rolling-eyes !
Another cool gadget from Brilaps just hit the wires.
iMia is a web application focused on bringing a standard iPhone web interface to the MiaCMS, Mambo, and Joomla! content management systems. Yes, the iPhone does have a full web browser that is capable of displaying any site, so it is possible to use these content management systems without iMia. However, the experience is often less than appealing since users must constantly zoom in, zoom out, pinch to expand and contract, etc. As with most web sites and/or applications, these content management systems were coded with the desktop browser in mind. This is were iMia comes in…
iMia brings a simple web interface to the MiaCMS, Mambo, and Joomla! content management systems for iPhone users. The application is designed in accordance with the recommended iPhone interface design guidelines laid out by Apple. iMia makes use of the iui project’s fabulous efforts in this area.
Learn more on the product page here – http://wiki.brilaps.com/wikka.php?wakka=iMia.
Today, Brilaps released version 0.8 of Mia chat -Ajax web based chat- application. Chad Auld states, “This release is stable enough for everyday use and has undergone a great deal of testing on the various popular platforms and browsers. We have been using it to do all our own chatting for months now and we’re loving it. We are nearing a 1.0 release, but have a few new tricks to try before then”. Mia Chat is released under the MIT License. For more information about Mia Chat go here.
Edit: Mia Chat and MiaCMS are entirely different applications. Mia Chat is a a standalone web application. It cannot be installed as an extension on MiaCMS.
If you’re a MiaChat user, you better hurry and upgrade to the 0.8.3 version. This minor release from Brilaps, updates the HTMLPurifier library included with the distro in order to bring you a safer ajax chat application.
Grab your mia-chat at http://code.google.com/p/mia-chat/downloads/list
*by the way, MiaChat is not related to, or an extension to MiaCMS
After months of work, and a few unexpected delays, we finally closed in on the 4.8 release of MiaCMS.The Beta is out folks. Download it here, http://code.google.com/p/miacms/downloads/list and please do share your thoughts with us at http://forum.miacms.org .
The highlights of this release are; OpenID 1 & 2 support, content versioning, a brand new JavaScript architecture, a YUI Upgrade, an enhancement to the Related Articles module, a new version of the MOStlyCE editor, and plenty of bug fixes.
We owe a big thanks to the the Drupal project about the OpenID implementation, since most of it came from Drupal. Kudos to the fellow developers over there.
The official release of MiaCMS 4.8 should be out very shortly. We hope we’re gonna get some bug reports from the community before we pack it up for good.
As the MiaCMS Team, we recently gave an interview at OpenSourceCMS.com.
Here is a tiny excerpt from the interview;
Chanh:
7) There is a plethora of open source CMS’s available out “there” for people to choose. Why should people consider MiaCMS?MiaCMS team:
Chad: The MiaCMS team is focused on producing an simple, yet powerful content management system. The team is focused on stability, security, innovation, web standards, performance, and our users. We are community focused and take pride in our product. MiaCMS is not a toy, an experiment, or a hobby. It is a robust CMS which can be used for sites of all types and sizes. Furthermore, MiaCMS has a very powerful extension system which can be used to develop custom extensions to enable functionality not found in the core by default.Cem: One of the good things that we inherited from Mambo is the mindset of “simplicity”. Can we make it simpler, yet better! We are working on it.
You can read more a http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?o…….08&Itemid=188
If you’re in the quest for an Open Source CMS, and don’t want to download/install a bunch of them till you decide, I would surely recommend that you visit OpenSourceCMS.com, play with the demos that they refresh hourly.
We made it. An -perhaps- insignificant step for humanity, but a giant step for the MiaCMS project.
MiaCMS has been selected as a finalist in the PacktPub 2008 Open Source CMS competition. Our precious project will compete in the the “Most Promising Open Source CMS” category. MiaCMS project is only about 5 months old, but we have worked hard and are quite proud of the results and the interest in the project.
The official list can be see here:
http://www.packtpub.com/2008-open-source-cms-award-finalists
The official voting (the real thing) starts Monday September 1. Your nominations helped get us to this point, and we are thankful for that. However, we need to ask you one more time to show your support for MiaCMS project.
moseasymedia, a sort of well known video embedding extension in the Mambo Joomla! community, has a new release. moseasymedia 2.0.x version is released in mid April with a few neat features.
I’ll try give some highlights from the readme.txt that’s in the zip package.
Please read on,
In the last couple of days, we’ve been working on a migration to Slicehost from GoDaddy. GoDaddy hosting served us well so far. We got greedy and wanted more.
Setting up the slice was rather painless, with a full control over everything we wanted to do with our slice. Plus, documentation is pretty good on the SliceHost world.
I would strongly recommend Slicehost, however keep in mind that, their hosting services pretty much “built for developers”. If you’re not comfortable with Linux flavours, things may get hairy. Be warned.
In case you want a slice on Slicehost, and need help, help is right here.
If you don’t want to deal with all the server stuff, TMDHosting, SiteGround, GoDaddy are very sound options for your hosting needs.
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