An IT Toolkit

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An IT Toolkit

• A survey of open source tools and options

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Rich Text Editors

• Xinha Here
• Firefox plugin that overloads text boxes to have
  rich text capabilities
• http//www.hypercubed.com/projects/firefox/
• TinyMCE
• Javascript WYSIWYG editor for HTML forms
• http//tinymce.moxiecode.com/

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CMSs

• Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal
• All run in the PHP, MYSQL, Apache space
• Large overlap in functionality
• All have taken steps to meet enterprise needs
• Each functionality set reflects the applications
  heritage

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Wordpress

• Wants to be a blogging platform
• Supports the idea of posts and pages
• Intermediates creation of raw HTML
• Hard to manually add complex html
• Solution get plugins to generate the html you
  need
• Enbede youtube clips, feeds, audio files c
• Download, create, modify themes

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Wordpress Admin

• Wordpress MU supports multiple sites from one
  codebase
• Many authentication modules to outsource user
  management
• OpenID, Shibboleth, LDAP, c
• Access control is managed by levels (admin,
  editor, author c)

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Joomla

• Wants to be a site level CMS
• Relatively easy to install, manage, control look
  and feel
• Supports templates
• Plugins support additional functionalities
  (blogs, wikis, c)

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Drupal

• Wants to be a development Framework
• or perhaps a portal
• Data can be presented in many formats
• Pages, wikis, blogs, c
• Supports the concept of nodes, taxonomies and
  views

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Drupal Admin

• Robust and flexible at the cost of being
  relatively complex
• Supports Themes
• Many modules
• Including man auth options (with granular access
  control)
• Supports mulitble sites served from one code base
• .htaccess multiple database tables

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Wikis

• Useful when your users know more than the group
  supporting the site.
• MediaWiki
• PHP, MYSQL
• Relatively open front and back ends
• relatively rarely used
• Trac
• Python
• Great for managing software projects

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Document Management

• Owl
• LAMP
• http//owl.anytimecomm.com/

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Hosted Services

• Use hosted services to publish data to your
  website
• Flickr
• Google Maps
• Google Calendar
• Blogger
• Wordpress (hosted)