OpenEdit Development 8-14-08

Features

Further integration of product folders into the archive search functionality. You can now search for folders, view their contents, and download them as a zip file.

OE now works with Resin 3.2 virtual hosts.

Improvements

The OE Zip utility class now uses the file repository, which means mounted folders can now be zipped, as well as any other implementation of the repository interface. Also, we don't unzip OS X meta data in zip files.

New Archive interface.

Bug Fixes

Fixed group permission editor.

Axis Sivitz Thu, Aug 14 2008 4:50 PM 1 comment

8 Deployments a Day..

During the launch of the RMC network this past week, and since the launch of VoisinHQ three weeks ago, we have built and deployed Voisin countless times. During the first few days of an new application, we deploy a new version of the software up to 8 times per day.

This has everything to do with OEF's fallback directory structure, build server set-up, and tools for plug-in upgrades.

The process of getting bug fixes committed into the base code and upgrading live installations is incredibly smooth with OEF. In fact, it's so straight forward that we make changes, test, commit and upgrade live installations daily.

The result of our rapid deployment cycles from an end user perspective is very significant. Our users often get receive an outline of the implemented solution to the bug they encountered the same day they post their complaint. This turns frustrated users into big fans of the software.

Could you imagine Microsoft implementing a fix to your software complaints within 24 hours?

Being able to provide an immediate and permanent resolution to most small issues preventing an enjoyable user experience is making a huge difference to the success of Voisin.

Our initial success is very much a result of OEF. Thank you.

Joel Halse Wed, Aug 13 2008 11:27 AM 0 comments

A List Apart Survey, 2008

This is a bit off topic from OpenEdit but I think many of our users might find this interesting:

Take a look at A List Apart and participate in their survey. They are looking for all "designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide."

A List Apart is a webzine for web designers. It covers various topics of interest and advocates the use of web standards in the design process.

By the way, you can see the results of last years survey here.

Julie Riley Mon, Aug 11 2008 3:10 PM 1 comment

OpenEdit Development 8-10-08

Features

New OpenEdit toolbar allows easy setup of new OE applications

The new Mount Editor let's the admin manage all of the external directories used by OpenEdit in one central place

Improvements

Greatly improved XML document writing speed, and simplified API

Product folders can be indexed and searched by their _site.xconf properties.

Product properties may be pulled in from .xconfs

Axis Sivitz Mon, Aug 11 2008 10:10 AM 0 comments

OpenEdit Development 8-1-08

Features

Download button in filemanager and gallery to directly download file

Default filetype icons in Archive for non-images

Folders can now be indexed along with products for searching

Axis Sivitz Fri, Aug 1 2008 4:51 PM 0 comments

New Ideas

Does anyone have feedback on this new OpenEdit Admin toolbar idea? The way it would work is that you would hover over the plugin type and it will drop down some sub options. This also allows you to setup multiple blogs, ecommerce or archive store fronts. Once you install a plugin then a new drop down will automatically appear.

Christopher Burkey Fri, Aug 1 2008 12:04 AM 2 comments

Source Statistics

I gathered some statistics on OpenEdit's source code. I wonder how these will change over the next few years?

Commands Used

lines: find openedit/src/ -iname '*.java' | xargs wc -l

files: find openedit/src/ -iname '*.java' | wc -l

biggest: find openedit/src/ -iname '*.java' | xargs wc -l | sort -n

Data

openedit (core)

java source:  25055 total lines in 161 files
unit tests:  3367 total lines in 36 files

biggest:    932 lines: openedit/src/java/com/openedit/users/filesystem/FileSystemUserManager.java
 

openedit editor

java source:  32730 total lines in 190 files
unit tests:   4115 total lines in 59 files

biggest:   1269 lines: openedit-editor/src/com/openedit/modules/admin/users/UserManagerModule.java
 

openedit cart

java source:  24131 total lines in 111 files
unit tests:   3453 total lines in 26 files

biggest:   1607 lines: openedit-cart/src/org/openedit/store/modules/CatalogEditModule.java
 

openedit archive

java source: 8036 total lines in 46 files
unit tests:  1785 total lines in 19 files

biggest: 665 lines: openedit-archive/src/com/openedit/archive/collection/CollectionModule.java

openedit-blog

java source: 2586 total lines in 15 files
unit tests: 314 total lines in 4 files

biggest:   520 lines: openedit-blog/src/org/openedit/blog/modules/BlogModule.java

 

Axis Sivitz Tue, Jul 29 2008 3:11 PM 2 comments

OpenEdit Development 7-24-08

Improvements

User Manager has a new and improved Ajax screen for changing the groups that a user belongs to. It's much easier to use in systems that have many groups.

Issue Tracker supports file attachments. Todos are tracked by status. Can now capture business requirements.

Users can now be disabled after repeated failed logins.

Bug Fixes

Support for groups that have capital letters and spaces in their IDs.

Reindexing products will not load them all into memory (may fix out of memory error).

Fixed broken links in main documentation page.

Fixed permission editing on folders.

Axis Sivitz Thu, Jul 24 2008 4:14 PM 0 comments

OpenEdit blog added to Technorati

Thanks Joel! I overlooked adding our blog onto our  Technorati Profile, it's there I think! I hope this moves our ranking up a bit, we're number 4,500,000 now... Now to blog!

Julie Riley Wed, Jul 23 2008 1:46 PM 0 comments

Vote for OpenEdit for Most Promising Open Source CMS

Please nominate OpenEdit for Packt Publishing's "Most Promising Open Source CMS." By nominating OpenEdit now, it will allow us to be included in the voting later this year.

Last year, OpenEdit was one of the top five CMS solution's chosen for Packt Publishing's 2007 Open Source CMS Award under the category of "Best Other Open Source Content Management System ". Packt Publishing has just begun to accept nominations for their 2008 Open Source CMS Awards and OpenEdit plans on going all the way under the category of "Most Promising Open Source CMS".

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems.

This past year has proven to be very successful for OpenEdit, our developers have worked hard to make OpenEdit even a better open source project. We've seen our OpenEdit User Community begin to grow, we've added development staff and our corporate customer base is growing!

A few of the changes to OpenEdit this past year are:

1. Tab editing
2. Hibernate support for eCommerce
3. Improved eCommerce admin interface
4. Improved image handling and uploading for Archive
5. Improved documentation
6. New look and feel for all OpenEdit tools.
7. Integration of admin features with the filemanager
8. Improved plugin picker and installer. Make sure each plugin updates dependent plugins
9. Improved Account Manager with group and user searcher
10. Full testing

and more!

Please help OpenEdit get nominated!!

It's been an exciting year for all of us at OpenEdit and we thank all of you for your continued support!

Julie Riley Mon, Jul 14 2008 10:50 AM 0 comments