boomsocket: Cool Preview Videos!

Content Management System | Open Source | BoomSocket | boomsocket Video | Preview

@ 1:01PM EST 10.31.2007

I spent sometime today playing around with Jing and thought it would be a good platform for us to start showing off boomsocket. So below I've got 3 videos for you to watch which talk about some of the features in boomsocket.

Video #1 - Picnik integration - We've got Picnik, the online image editor, integrated into our file manager system. Watch this video to get a glimpse of file manager and how Picnik is being used.

Video #1 Local Link
Video #1 Jing Link (bandwidth restricted)

Video #2 - Building Forms Part 1 - In this first part I show how easy it is to build forms for collecting and managing the data in boomsocket. The Socket Builder is the corner stone of boomsocket and here we show you just how easy it is to use.

Video #2 Local Link
Video #2 Jing Link (bandwidth restricted)

Video #3 - Building Forms Part 2 - In this 2nd part we take the Socket we built in "Video #2 - Building Forms Part 1" and turn it into a front end form so our visitors can actually use the form to send trouble tickets.

Video #3 Local Link
Video #3 Jing Link (bandwidth restricted)

Comments (3)

>> Nice work guys, it looks like this has potential :) - nick tong
>> Looks terrific! - Antony
>> Thats Great! both BoomSocket and Jing!! - Shimju

boomsocket: The Status, An Update and A Tease

Developers | Content Management System | Announcement | Open Source | BoomSocket

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 6:29PM EST 10.17.2007

It's been a wild 5 months since we first opened up boomsocket to developers. We’ve used boomsocket to develop and launch a number of our client sites. And more are in development right now.

As of October 11th, we have 110 Alpha Testers! And we’re ready for a lot more. So here's a bit of a tease ...

One week from today - Oct 17th - we're going to make an announcement which should excite a lot of our alpha testers. We want you to be a part of this. BUT, in order to hear the announcement, you’ll need to be part of the few, the fearless: our Alpha Testers. Simply head over to http://www.boomsocket.com/home/alpha-signup.cfm and sign up to be an Alpha Tester (we just need your name and email, that’s all).

You'll get a special URL which will allow you to download the latest stable build of boomsocket. Then on Oct 24th we'll email you some great news about boomsocket, the alpha program and one other tantalizing nugget of information.

Trust me, I want to tell you about it now, but my boss won't let me. So go sign up and we'll be in touch!

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>> Well, I cant agree more. - Ryan

A Peek at the boomsocket Skin

Developers | ColdFusion | Content Management System | BoomSocket

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 2:30PM EST 6.20.2007

Even as propeller-heads we all know that it's more important to look good than to feel good! The DP team has been working hard on the look and feel of boomsocket and I wanted to give you all a chance to see some skin.

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BoomSocket Alpha Open to Developers

Developers | Digital Positions | Content Management System | BoomSocket

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 12:50PM EST 6.5.2007

Well my friends, my very patient friends, we have finally released an Alpha build of BoomSocket for the brave few of you to jump in and play with.

I apologize for the long delay in actually getting this thing off the ground, but we have been busier than ever with client production work and I have made all my developers crazy with the "yeah, that's good but add this one more thing and then we can release."

The result will hopefully be a huge boost in your enjoyment of developing web sites and a dramatic increase in your ability to build them more efficiently. The amount of time you used to have to spend doing the drudgery of admin tool creation, navigation build-out, content-assignment will diminish to a small blib on your radar, freeing you up to do the really cool stuff.

At this point the Alpha is only open to folks who request access. You can head over to boomsocket.com to sign up as an Alpha tester. We look forward to your feedback!

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Yes there really is a BoomSocket: Alpha Coming Next Week!

Content Management System | Announcement | Open Source | BoomSocket

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 11:54AM EST 5.18.2007

Could it be? Are they really doing it? Or is this just another publicity stunt? Read on to get the facts.

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Open Source Update - BoomSocket coming soon?

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 10:46AM EST 5.15.2007

It's time for another Open Source update. Check out this post to see what the team has been up to! Eric even alludes to a possible beta being around the corner, could it really be happening!

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We Finally Have a Name for Our Six Year Old

Developers | ColdFusion | Digital Positions | Content Management System | Open Source

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 5:03PM EST 4.10.2007

After an arduous amount of time spent brainstorming, strategizing, (drinking), and doodling with our friends at Abovo Marketing Group, we have finally re-branded our baby. The open source version of our rockin’ site management system, i3SiteTools is…

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>> Congratulations on finding a name. I'm sure a lot of people will be interested fitting this boomsocket into their sites when you finish that "just-one-more-feature" creep. - Cheyenne
>> Any idea of a release date at this point? Josen - Josen Ruiseco
>> I love it. It carries a fun-filled enthusiasm that makes me want to play with it (boom) plus the engineering hint that I will find it standardized and extensible (socket). Great job! - Michael Wilkes

ColdFusion Developer Needed for Landscaping Job

posted by: Ben Wakeman

@ 10:59AM EST 1.31.2007

Even if you are happy right now in your current ColdFusion position, you should read this job posting just to make your boss nervous.

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>> Man, that sure sounds like a fun job to have. For now, the commute from New Jersey would be a bit much. I should be headed back down south in a few months so I'll keep an eye pegged on your site for the next opening ;) Good luck with your search. - Dan Wilson
>> Dan... look us up anytime you are in town! Thanks for stopping by. - Ben
>> Damnit, Jim! Someone already used my "commute from far away state" line... *grumble* - George in SF - Fluffy Bananachunks
>> wow, this is right down the road. Not sure where there would be any horsies in midtown hotlanta. - mll
>> What is cold fusion again? - Jeff Haynie
>> Wow! What a neat profile. Makes me wish (momentarily) that I wasn't happily employed full time so I could pursue this. - Chris Mathison
>> Any chance of a remote develpoer or opening up a Jacksonville Office? I miss being in love woth my work... I miss being able to do something cool, and have co-workers actually think it's cool too. Your company sounds great. I am a huge fan of Farcry, I can deploy a farcry site for anything, so I will be watching BoomSocket closely to see what it has to offer. - Dave McGraw

Making linking legal

Blogging | Trends | Content Management System | i3SiteTools

posted by: David Taylor-Klaus

@ 12:02PM EST 1.30.2007

Can you legally link to another web site without violating copyright laws? Well, there is no simple answer. Is there ever?

Comments (3)

>> I think the article is misleading. Linking to another site is currently legal, deep links or otherwise. Even according to the article, there is no US law or court decision that would make linking illegal or suggest that it infringes on copyrights. I think where you get into potential legal trouble is where you blur the ownership of the content. That occurs with the techniques discussed in the article about "framing" or "inlining". If you're doing that sort of stuff on your site, then you probably should be concerned. - Mike Rankin
>> Thanks for the comment, Mike.

And you're spot-on: linking is legal. Inlining, framing, posting PDFs of the original page content, etc are where folks get into legal trouble.

However, our larger clients have expressed concern about the potential legal exposure. Unfortunately, should a site owner feel that there has been a copyright violation, the corporation still has to respond to the filing ... regardless of the legal precedent.

More and more of our clients are seeking advance permission rather than asking for forgiveness.

- David Taylor-Klaus
>> I also think that some content sites (no naming dropping here, but a simple web search should turn up results) actually have outlined in their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy's that direct links to articles are not allowed. So most everyone should do their homework at least a little bit before linking away. - Eric Jones

Progress report for Open Source Initiative

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 10:48AM EST 1.26.2007

Wow it's been 3 months since we made the announcement that Digital Positions was going to open source our Content Management System i3SiteTools. So where are we in the journey? What's been done? And the most important question when will we see some code and get to play with it?

Comments (3)

>> Will this CMS be usable on a shared hosting environment. I'm asking because there are so many good PHP-based open source CMS's out there (such as Drupal and Joomla) that are a breeze to install on a shared host. But the ones I know of that are CF-based (Farcry and Speck) are tricky to near-impossible to install on a shared host. - tony
>> Tony, First of all, thanks for your interest in our CMS! I feel your pain regarding the complexities of installing CF based CMS products. Our mission is to make i3SiteTools as painless as possible. It's doubtful that because of the obvious differences in PHP and CF that i3SiteTools will ever be a one-click install ala Joomla available on a $6/month hosting provider. That said, I think our CMS has some amazing functionality for developers that is sorely lacking in most of the systems out there. - Ben Wakeman
>> Thanks for your quick response, Ben, and thank you for open sourcing your CMS (I gather from RIAforge that it will be named Boomsocket?). The CF community is definitely in need of open source projects such as this one and I look forward to its release (and perhaps contributing to it some day). - Tony Garcia

A Flex CMS Makeover

User Interface | Flex | Content Management System | Site Management System | i3SiteTools

posted by: Darin Kohles

@ 5:17PM EST 11.14.2006

I’d like to discuss a bit of my experience tinkering with re-skinning portions of our Content Management System, i3SiteTools,using Flex 2. The tools that make up the ‘CMS’ (sometimes referred to as the ‘SMS’ for Site Management System) have been built and tweeked over the past 10 years by several developers. A lot of thought and energy went in to making the display forms be able to do tricks like searching and column sorting. Generally, this was accomplished by harnessing the power of the backend with SQL and self-posting pages. A lot of conditional logic was incorporated into the ColdFusion pages to build and manage the display.

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ColdFusion Open Source Announcement

posted by: Eric Jones

@ 12:34PM EST 10.13.2006

Digital Positions is tossing it's hat into the open source world. Check out our announcement post to see what the deal is, and exactly what we are planning!

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