Geeklog

Three months from now, Geeklog will celebrate its 10th birthday. If you've never done it before, you may want to scroll down to the end of the history file that ships with Geeklog and look at the first entry there, dated June 17, 2000.

A lot has changed in those 10 years. Lots of new CMS have sprung up. Some have disappeared again, others have overtaken Geeklog. But despite claims to the contrary, we are still here, alive and kicking. Another thing that hasn't changed is our focus on security. Geeklog's original author, Jason Whittenburg, wrote it for a security portal after all. This heritage has always been our guideline in developing Geeklog, sometimes (as some may say) even to the point of inconveniencing our users for the sake of security. Geeklog provides a feature set comparable to that of other CMS, but security was always the feature that would set us apart.

So we've decided to (finally) reflect that in our slogan as well. After some brainstorming on the geeklog-devel mailing list, the winning entry was

Geeklog - The secure CMS.

Yes, that's a bold claim. And we fully expect that someone out there will see that as a challenge. We're aiming high and we're confident that with the help of our great user community we'll achieve the goal implicit in this new slogan.

Google Summer of Code 2010

In other news, we will be applying to participate in the Google Summer of Code again this year. Our ideas list is already up, if you want to take a look. Applications for organizations start on Monday (March 8) and the list of selected organizations will be published on March 18.

New release cycle

We have also decided to switch Geeklog to a bi-annual release cycle from now on, with major releases coming out in April and November. So we won't be sitting here twiddling our thumbs waiting for whether we're going to be in GSoC 2010 or not. Instead, we're going to wrap up development of the next Geeklog version and expect to have a beta version for you by the end of this month. The feature set for this upcoming version hasn't been quite finalised yet - more details soon.

If you've ever installed an aging plugin/addon and found it incompatible - worse found your geeklog site down.

You may have found it hard to disable the offending extension.

This tool is for you. Options include:

• Enable/Disable Plugins
• Enable/Disable Blocks
• Edit Select $_CONF Values
• Reset Admin Password

More info and download here.

Hope it helps ;)

-s

The latest release of our twitter_block plugin for geeklog/glfusion is now available for download.

New/fixed for this release:

• introduction text when first installed(username missing)
• relative times (config option)
• tinyUrls - whew what a pain in the a#@! (config option)
• twitter profile photo (config option)
• follow me link at the bottom of the block
• autotags (thanks for your help Tom)
• Swedish language translation (thanks Daniel)
• auto-install works correctly

Read the full story here.

Enjoy :)

-s

The latest G2Bridge for Geeklog1.6.x<->Gallery2 integration is available for immediate download.

New features include:

• Integrated search (GL1.6.1required)
• What's new support
• Plugin Autoinstall compatibility
• Other minor bug fixes

Get it here. And support on our forums here.

 -s

Want to speed up the document upload process? Want to download and edit documents on the fly? Then the nexFile Desktop Client is the solution.

The nexFile Client allows users to seamlessly attach to their nexFile document repository and upload documents directly from their desktop. By simply dragging-and-dropping as many files as needed into a configurable monitored directory, those files are automatically uploaded to the nexFile Document repository. The nexFile Client eliminates the tedious one-at-a-time upload through a web form limitation.

Using nexFile's "Download File for Editing" option on any file in the repository allows you to keep an opened version of the file in your PC's nexFile monitored directory while you make live edits to it. Every time you save the file, the nexFile Desktop Client will update the contents in the nexFile repository on-the-fly, keeping your repository up to date.

We have completed a 5min video that is an overview of the full features of the nexFile solution that includes the nexFile desktop client. There are additional tutorials on the user and admin features - all located on youtube in the Nextide Channel.

The nexFile document repository is 100% open source and free.
However the nexFile Desktop Client is a licensable product, but is free to test for 10 days from your download date.

You can download the Demo version of the nexFile Desktop client here.

Documentation can be found here.
For purchasing information, please contact us.

• nexContent - content management system
• nexFlow - workflow engine and task console
• nexForm - forms generation engine
• nexProject - project management system
• nexTime - timesheet management system

Adds a jQuery ajax Quick Chat block and a Full Chat to your Geeklog 1.6.x/glFusion1.1.6+ site.
Great replacement for the aging iframe chatterblock
Initial release for testing.

Try it out here.

Handy little block to retrieve your latest tweets and display them in your Geeklog or glFusion powered website.

Get it here.

Geeklog 1.6.1 is now available for download. This is a recommended update for all users of Geeklog 1.6.0, as it fixes several issues in that earlier release.

Additionally, there are also some new features in Geeklog 1.6.1, e.g.

• support for meta keywords and meta descriptions
• support for one featured story per topic
• allows users to set their timezone
• ... and more

When upgrading from an earlier version, please also see the list of required theme changes.