25
Apr
2008
Why Magento open-source eCommerce ?
Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control.
Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento's modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.
Magento is available on GPL (General Public Licence)
New In Magento
* Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For example: Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount | Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. | Buy x, get y with percent or fixed amount discount | Buy x, get free shipping on order | Buy x, get percent discount | Buy x, get fixed amount discount.
* Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products
* Free Shipping Option
* Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
* Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
* Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
* Search Engine Friendly URL's
* URL Rewrites
* Recently Viewed Products
* Recently Compared Items
* New Items Promotional Tool
* Up-sells in Shopping Cart
* Cross-sells on product pages
* Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
* Send Wishlist to a Friend by Email or RSS
* RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
* Auto-generated Site Map
* Google Site Map
* Polls
* Newsletter Management
Site Management :
* Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
* Multi-Lingual
* Support for localization
* Support for multiple currencies
* Administration Permission System Roles and Users
* Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
* Fully 100% customizable design using templates
* Customer Groups
* One-Click Upgrades
* Content Management System for Informational Pages
21
Apr
2008
PLIGG (CMS) Open Source
Pligg is a Web 2.0 Open Source Content Management System based on PHP/MySQL.
"Pligg is unique compared to most other content management systems because of its flexibility. A web designer can do pretty much anything with Pligg because the software was designed to be used in as many ways as possible. Not only can a person with very little knowledge of PHP and MySQL install it, but they can modify and administer it with relatively little difficulty. For those who have a greater understanding of web languages, Pligg can act as the first step in a highly customized personal content management system."
Features Pligg is become one of oustanding cms around the world because of their digg a like news system, where people control the news and people vote for news they like. Its like a web 2.0
Plugins/Hacks Plugins, pligg plugins is still not much, at their website only a few have been listed and its maybe not worth for make 1 directory plugins for pligg
21
Apr
2008
Flex
A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles Action Script code and XML-based user interface descriptions (MXML) into binary Flash files (SWF files). It also includes a variety of user interface functions for creating rich client applications.
Overview:
Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, developers can use Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3 software to dramatically accelerate development
It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe UI layout and behaviors, and ActionScript™ 3, a powerful object-oriented programming language, is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger.
RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime.
Flash and Flex applications are rendered in the browser using Flash Player and on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime.
21
Apr
2008
WordPress WPMU Technology
WPMU is short for WordPress MultiUser or, WordPress_MU.
WordPress MU, or WordPressµ, is the multi-user version of the famous WordPress blogging application. It is ideal for people who want to set up a large network of blogs. WordPress MU is also used by newspapers, magazines, blog networks, universities and large companies running corporate blogging systems behind firewalls.
Using the WordPress multi-user edition, you will be able offer your users an opportunity to sign up for a new blog. They will be able to securely manage their templates and settings without affecting any other users. You can have unlimited users with unlimited blogs, and users can have various roles (author, etc) on each others blogs.
Features:
WordPress MU is a unique WordPress product. Plugins and themes are controlled by a central system administrator. So unlike the single-user version of WordPress, individual MU bloggers cannot upload their own plugins and themes, only select from the ones made available by the system administrator.
Benefits
- Ability to create a hosted "community" of users.
- Ability to host thousands of users on one site.
- Opportunity to provide free hosting as an incentive to paid hosting services.
- Various options for adding plugins and administration features.
- Customization of the administration panels.
- Ability to add WordPress Themes, increasing user choices.
- Ability to control WordPress Themes, limiting user choices per site needs.
- Security precautions and protections in place.
- Easy addition of comment spam protection through plugins.
WordPress MU is designed for hosts to offer hosting of WordPress blogs to individual users. The full version of WordPress is still free and available for download, and it is designed to offer full customization for the single or multi-user blogs and/or multiple blogs by a single administrator.
Wordpress is written in PHP and licensed under the GNU General Public License, which allows for its use in most applications.
18
Apr
2008
Why Go For Open Source Software
“Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available”
The free software movement was launched in 1983. In 1998, a group of individuals advocated that the term free software be replaced by open source software (OSS) as an expression which is less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world. Software developers may want to publish their software with an open source license, so that anybody may also develop the same software or understand how it works.
Benefits of Open Source Software
Low Cost No need to buy expensive server software licenses or renew. The service includes all required software, and never required any additional softwares.
Efficient Working The major reason is it is virus free. Also it works fine with lower configuration hardware. You will not require to take higher configuration hardware.
Reliability Almost all software releases contain bugs. When a bug is spotted in proprietary software, the only people who can fix it are the original developers, as only they have access to the source code. Open source software is different. As a large number of users can access and change the code, bugs tend to be more visible and more rapidly corrected. One of the slogans of the open source movement is that ‘given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow’
Customization Closed source applications can only be customized or adapted by the original vendor. Open source applications may be customized by anyone with the requisite skill. Thus, open source software can be readily adapted to meet specific user needs. Even if you cannot program yourself, it is easy to post a feature request on an open source software project's home page. If you would like something added or customized urgently, you can generally pay an appropriately skilled software developer to do it for you.
Translation With access to the source code it is easy to translate the language of the software interface. Large closed source commercial software vendors are usually unwilling to translate their products into less widely spoken languages, as the market for them would be too small to guarantee profit.
Easy Learning From Examples If you are interested in programming, open source code provides an excellent resource from which to learn, and open source projects provide a practical environment in which to test your skills. Just watching the development process can provide an education in itself. If you choose to submit code to an open source project, it will generally be checked and commented on by experienced programmers. Once you have convinced the project community that your code is of appropriate quality, you may be