Posts Tagged ‘impresscms’

Use Ajax Redirect in ImpressCMS

Posted in impresscms on September 1st, 2011 by David – Be the first to comment

ImpressCMS introduced a AJAX-based redirect system in series 1.2, which makes your site much quicker to work with. By using this redirect system, notifications and confirmation messages (E.g. ‘Thank you for logging in’) don’t show on a new page any more, but they are presented to the user on a text bubble that is loaded dynamically while the user remains on the same page.

Currently, not that many themes are created that provide this, and you need to explicitly enable it before the functionality becomes available. I’ll explain here the two simple steps you in adding this to your site.

ATTENTION: It has been noted to me that this technique is not needed, as ImpressCMS automatically includes the javascript code required into the <head> section of the page. All that remains to be done then is to enable the Ajax redirect in the settings (STEP 2) read more »

Preparing the ImpressCMS Developer Challenge 2011

Posted in impresscms on August 3rd, 2011 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

With ImpressCMS 1.3 RC2 planned for this week or the next, things are also being worked out on our first ImpressCMS Developer Challenge. This is a big deal for us, both because this is the first contest we organise, and also because it should give us quite a bit of visibility in communities where we weren’t present until now.

On such occasions, it’s a good idea to inspire yourself on similar contests. Let’s not re-invent the wheel. During my quest for coding competitions, I came accross one that was of particular interest to me : the PHP on Azure contest. Two reasons : it’s a PHP coding contest, and it was organized in my region (Belgium).

I contacted the PHPBenelux organisation, and they agreed to assist in making the ImpressCMS Developer Challenge a big success! Thanks guys.

ImpressCMS Trac migration to Sourceforge

Posted in impresscms on May 9th, 2010 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

After getting increasingly dissatisfied with the service from Codesion, ImpressCMS decided to switch to another provider. We had few requirements, and so we started searching for a solution based upon those:

  • free or affordable for our budgets
  • Subversion
  • Trac

We also thought of the possibility of doing the hosting ourselves, but that would mean an investment of time and effort, which would be unavailable for other tasks. Overall, we thought it was best to let specialized service providers handle that kind of non-core activity. read more »

Should We Upgrade ImpressCMS Core to jQuery 1.4?

Posted in Web on February 24th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Recently, jQuery 1.4 was released, with a maintenance release 1.4.2 a few days ago. In a move comparable to what we are doing with ImpressCMS release 1.3, the jQuery developers chose the jQuery 1.4 release to be a release focused on speed and cleanup of the codebase. Mostly, just cleaning up the codebase results in quite some speed advancements, so those two efforts are frequently combined.

The changelog for this latest release of the Javascript library mentions performance improvements in many areas : CSS methods, Attributes and many of the most-used functions. However, the changelog also details some backward incompatible changes with previous versions. These incompatibilities can be countered by installing this specific plugin. read more »

ImpressCMS IPF Session 1 part 2 – blocks demonstration

Posted in Uncategorized on December 12th, 2009 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

This second part of the first ImpressCMS IPF webcast gives a walkthrough of the blocks functionality, which was recently rewritten using IPF.

Next webcast in this session is on Monday 14 December 2009, at 21:00 (GMT)

ImpressCMS IPF Session 1 – Introduction

Posted in Uncategorized on December 11th, 2009 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

Gravatar in Thunderbird Mail

Posted in Web on July 28th, 2009 by David – Be the first to comment

Some time ago, I generated a Gravatar for myself, a Globally Recognised Avatar. It’s simple, it has become free some time ago, and it’s easy. The idea behind Gravatar and its sidekicks is that you want to have something recognisable on the web, no matter in what forum or on what blog you are posting. On the internet, that’s done using an avatar: An image or a photo you choose to depict yourself. Without a similar service, using an avatar on multiple sites means registration on every site you want to post (which isn’t bad, mind you) , and uploading your chosen image to all of them.That’s not so hard, unless you start changing avatar image every few weeks or months (as many people do). Then you almost need an accountant to keep track of what you have been uploading where, and the fun is soon lost.

Enter Gravatar.com . A nice idea, that simply links an image to an e-mail address.

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icmslogo_beta1

Posted in Uncategorized on July 7th, 2009 by David – Be the first to comment

icmslogo_beta1

icmslogo_beta1,
originally uploaded by fiammy.

I had some fun with Inkscape recently, and this came out o it – a possible logo for ImpressCMS beta 1

3mension : the first shy steps

Posted in Game Development on December 4th, 2008 by David – Comments Off

I mentioned in a previous blog that I was considering starting up a website geared at game artists and game developers. After some deliberation over the name with a few friends, 3mension was chosen. In this era of everything having to be faster, sms-languages and turbospeak, I liked the combination of ’3d’ and ‘dimension’.

Well, the name is chosen, the site is registered, and I even managed to get some kind of mailing list setup … euhm … well, set up. :-) There isn’t much yet, but the first steps are already working on my local pc. The ultimate goal is to have a nice little present to ease your hangovers on the second day of the year. But that depends on quite some things that I don’t control entirely (like free time, and the number of bugs I managed to squeeze into my php code).

At the moment, I’m still focusing on having a group of applications available on the web server that will allow me to open up a beta release. Before you mention it : no, I’m not Google. Even if it’s just very posh to release your web software as ‘beta’ nowadays, I believe in the process to root bugs out and to get invaluable feedback from different types of users.

Those interested in getting all the 3mension announcements as soon as they are published, please sign up on the website : www.3mension.com.