mardi 15 avril 2003

OPML Directory Browser and Mozilla I spent a little while today investigating OPML. Dave Winer has been talking about OPML, directory browsers, and the upcoming OSCOM conference. I really like outliners, especially OmniOutline, so I thought I'd look a little at how to do the OPML directory browser in Mozilla. 5:43:23 PM   comment []

Plone, Making Big-Time News A big-time congratulations go out to the Plone team for this rave review by Jim Rapoza in eWeek, a tip-top industry publication. Some snippets: "one of the best open-source portal and Web publishing products that eWeek Labs has seen" "an excellent system for creating and managing collaborative portals or Web sites or for building corporate intranet pages" "much more capable and flexible than the competing [fill in the blank]" "quite possibly the most easily deployed server application we've ever seen, open-source or commercial" Something really struck me about that last part. It's so easy for open source developers to focus on raw brilliance, but most evaluators won't make it to such a moment of revelation. Instead, they'll form their opinion largely on the first twenty minutes of the experience. My favorite part of this was Alan Runyan's reaction. I dropped by IRC to say congrats and he was already planning the next step. "We can do much better. CMFMember adds the ability to workflow Member objects in Plone. This is bloody amazing, Paul." Heheh. Python, Zope, CMF, etc. are producing a strong ecosystem where cool things can happen. Projects like Plone are doing well at making the possible probable, by getting a good experience in front of smart people who are in a hurry. Update: Apparently Reuven Lerner wrote an Introducing Plone article for his regular "At the Forge" column in May's Linux Journal. I haven't read it yet. Comments from those that have it? 9:44:37 AM   comment []