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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: tomw on Thursday, January 23 2003 @ 09:34 am EST

I use geeklog for two commercial websites. These websites also serve as portals for the employees. The permission system allows me to present two different, though combined, interfaces to these different classes of clients. The plugins I have created were created to meet some of the shortcomings I encountered for use like this.

My menu plugin allowed me to give customized options to different classes of users and even individual users.

The external pages plugin allowed me to keep track of documents outside geeklogs control.

The contact plugin allowed me to move the company contacts onto the web for easy access. I sometimes think that the PDA and its functions is the central computer application.

The stats plugin allowed me to keep better tabs on the website and its usage.

Things that I have not integrated into geeklog -- I have webcalendar (puts geeklogs calendar to shame), email and file sharing apps run on perl. Ideally these could be integrated into and become a part of Geeklog.

The major impediment that I see to usage in the enterprise is to move Geeklog from the Blog sphere to the CMS sphere.

[Rant on]

Here is what I would see as ideal -- one system that would handle all content types the same and could be used for document management, with versioning control and workflow applications integrated. So instead of having stories seperate from all other content, all content would be the same.

For instance, how about the ability to have a word document as the lead story, with the capability to comment and discuss it.

Binary files, pictures, business documents (or technically all mime types) should be handled seamlessly through one interface. When I press submit, I should be able to submit anything. A binary file and its description should not be handled different from a story. These distinctions are made to satisfy computer shortcomings not human beings. I do not have different file cabinets to keep documents and another for pictures.

The enduser should be able to submit content in any format and the program should handle it. It shouldn't matter whether the content is in ascii, html, word, excel, powerpoint, binary, any of the picture formats, video, whatever a computer can generate (within practical limits of course).

[Rant off]

TomW

Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Tony on Thursday, January 23 2003 @ 09:42 am EST

Ha, I think you just describe GL2

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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: tomw on Thursday, January 23 2003 @ 11:03 am EST

Can't wait

Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, January 24 2003 @ 03:23 am EST

Or Drupal, who as all of the above for nearly a year (since I started using it).

Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, January 23 2003 @ 05:27 pm EST

with a quick mod to stories.php and a change of gl_stories, title from var128 in the database to TEXT , a little knowledge of HTML, there is no reason that your storie titles cant be Ms Office Documents, PDF's, Links, Or anything else.

You could either manually enter in the stories box
<a href=file/path/file_name>New File here</a>

or you could take the time and create a new stories submission interface.

P.S. Developers.

Could you please, for the SANITY and love of god, do the following.

One. Template out everything in lib-common. Its really not a lot. Things like COMMENT, button stiles, ectra. Its a pain to VI the file and change it everytime you create a Nifty New version, thats faster.

Two, caching. Not everyone has a brand new P4 or AMD XP 2600 with 1 gig of ram to play with. Not everyone has happy go lucky hosts who think memory or io usuage above .001 percent is okay

Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: Tony on Friday, January 24 2003 @ 04:11 pm EST

Templating has been an ongoing task ever since I started it. 98% of Geeklog is templated with the noted exception you listed and, of course, usersettings.php. Each release of GL attempts to take a chunk out of that and eventually we should be 100% template driven.

Caching solutions aren't easy. Worse yet, they introduce a number of support headaches when TTL's are too generous. I'm not saying that caching would not help but adding it needs to be carefully thought out. Why not start with some sort of PHP accelerator? That would be a path of least resistence at this point. The problem with this concept and GL2 will be dual webserver support. We will consider ways to do this and we are open to suggestions.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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