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Book Publisher Moves to PostNuke
“We’ll always be grateful to Francisco Burzi and the others who worked on PHPNuke,†Ralph Roberts, CEO said, “but it was time to move on.â€
Security problems was one of the items Roberts stated that forced the company into deciding on the change. After hackers used security holes in PHPNuke to deface the site several times, the webmaster was growing tired of having to restore the site and plug the holes.
Increased efficiency in operation, closer compliance to HTML standards, and added features were also considerations.
“We realize,†Roberts said, “that PostNuke is still in an alpha state of development, but it’s still the best out there. It does what we need and we are willing to commit to it as a long term solution and offer our support.â€
Complicating the change over to PostNuke for abooks.com was the legacy of hundreds of articles plus, at the same time, the move of the entire site to a new, dedicated server.
“All that certainly gave us an interesting weekend chasing down and fixing a multitude of little problems,†Roberts said with a grin.
aBOOKS is part of Creativity, Inc., the largest locally owned book publisher in Western North Carolina, warehousing and distributing books nationally for itself and dozens of other publishers through its aBOOKS operation.
In 1978, Ralph Roberts founded the company, incorporating it as Creativity, Inc. in January 1990. The book publishing side of the endeavor grew into Alexander Books and now aBOOKS Distributing (abooks.com). The various Creativity book imprints—there are six—share space in a modern warehouse, which like the two-story office building and rambling two-story farmhouse, is situated on the family property. All buildings are connected with underground phone and computer network lines, and have a T1 connection to the Internet.
"We raise books now instead of cows and tobacco," Roberts said, "it’s a lot easier and does not entail ploughing out in the hot sun."
Ralph brings an author’s perspective to publishing and is on the cutting edge of home computers and the Internet—about which he has written scores of books including the first U.S. book on computer viruses. He has now authored over 90 books total.
Recently, Ralph was joined by James M. (Jim) Walsh who heads up the aBOOKS Distributing sales force. Mr. Walsh has been active in the sale of books and sidelines for over thirty years, most recently as the co-founder and managing director of Print & Sound—an independent publisher’s representative group covering the southeast.
Publishers with an ongoing program who could benefit from being associated with a rapidly expanding full-service distributor are invited to submit catalog and samples to Ralph at 65 Macedonia Road, Alexander NC 28701 or email ralph@abooks.com.
Security problems was one of the items Roberts stated that forced the company into deciding on the change. After hackers used security holes in PHPNuke to deface the site several times, the webmaster was growing tired of having to restore the site and plug the holes.
Increased efficiency in operation, closer compliance to HTML standards, and added features were also considerations.
“We realize,†Roberts said, “that PostNuke is still in an alpha state of development, but it’s still the best out there. It does what we need and we are willing to commit to it as a long term solution and offer our support.â€
Complicating the change over to PostNuke for abooks.com was the legacy of hundreds of articles plus, at the same time, the move of the entire site to a new, dedicated server.
“All that certainly gave us an interesting weekend chasing down and fixing a multitude of little problems,†Roberts said with a grin.
aBOOKS is part of Creativity, Inc., the largest locally owned book publisher in Western North Carolina, warehousing and distributing books nationally for itself and dozens of other publishers through its aBOOKS operation.
In 1978, Ralph Roberts founded the company, incorporating it as Creativity, Inc. in January 1990. The book publishing side of the endeavor grew into Alexander Books and now aBOOKS Distributing (abooks.com). The various Creativity book imprints—there are six—share space in a modern warehouse, which like the two-story office building and rambling two-story farmhouse, is situated on the family property. All buildings are connected with underground phone and computer network lines, and have a T1 connection to the Internet.
"We raise books now instead of cows and tobacco," Roberts said, "it’s a lot easier and does not entail ploughing out in the hot sun."
Ralph brings an author’s perspective to publishing and is on the cutting edge of home computers and the Internet—about which he has written scores of books including the first U.S. book on computer viruses. He has now authored over 90 books total.
Recently, Ralph was joined by James M. (Jim) Walsh who heads up the aBOOKS Distributing sales force. Mr. Walsh has been active in the sale of books and sidelines for over thirty years, most recently as the co-founder and managing director of Print & Sound—an independent publisher’s representative group covering the southeast.
Publishers with an ongoing program who could benefit from being associated with a rapidly expanding full-service distributor are invited to submit catalog and samples to Ralph at 65 Macedonia Road, Alexander NC 28701 or email ralph@abooks.com.
Modular User Registration and Submit Forms
Not everyone wants their downloads area to be called "download" or weblinks called "weblinks", not to mention the navigation in these areas are all specific to doing one thing and are pretty bland.
If we webmasters had more control over something as simple as titling modules and navigation, I think it'll really open up PN and get us away from having sites that "look and act" like everyone else.
As it is now, if we want to do this, we have to spend hours hacking through files to physically change link names, then we have to figure out what function calls changing that name will affect somewhere else.
So it's a real pain to do something as simple change downloads to movieclips, etc.
If we webmasters had more control over something as simple as titling modules and navigation, I think it'll really open up PN and get us away from having sites that "look and act" like everyone else.
As it is now, if we want to do this, we have to spend hours hacking through files to physically change link names, then we have to figure out what function calls changing that name will affect somewhere else.
So it's a real pain to do something as simple change downloads to movieclips, etc.
Search module - plugging other modules
-Patrick Kellum search module as it's written right now is not ML
- Expanding the search to modules other than the standard ones requires adding a file to includes/search
- ...therefore ML for those plugin searches would require adding to the search defines (if there was any)
Wouldn't a modules/module_name/search directory make sense? that would be perfectly in line with the modularity of postnuke. Module writers could now distribute a search routine with their modules that would plug right in with the search. At the same time we would now be able to use the modules specific language file...
Has this been considered yet? I'm willing to do it myself but it will take a while since I don't have much time...
On a second note:
I submitted a nice and detailed "standard Announcement" for the Improved DMOZ module about a week ago on mods.postnuke.com with the hope it would be added to the CVS and the downloads there but, don't know why it was never posted.
You can test it at my test site www.flaglerlive.com (try just using the search form on the theme :-) and download here.
Release notes, description of changes and install instructions are in the docs/ directory
- Expanding the search to modules other than the standard ones requires adding a file to includes/search
- ...therefore ML for those plugin searches would require adding to the search defines (if there was any)
Wouldn't a modules/module_name/search directory make sense? that would be perfectly in line with the modularity of postnuke. Module writers could now distribute a search routine with their modules that would plug right in with the search. At the same time we would now be able to use the modules specific language file...
Has this been considered yet? I'm willing to do it myself but it will take a while since I don't have much time...
On a second note:
I submitted a nice and detailed "standard Announcement" for the Improved DMOZ module about a week ago on mods.postnuke.com with the hope it would be added to the CVS and the downloads there but, don't know why it was never posted.
You can test it at my test site www.flaglerlive.com (try just using the search form on the theme :-) and download here.
Release notes, description of changes and install instructions are in the docs/ directory
Opera6b
It does however not like the irc chat applet here on postnuke.com, I will work on that...but otherwise it renders all PostNuke content I have run across falwlessly ;-]
=-Rogue-= Status
I intend on releasing a "Rogue Preview" this weekend. There are some things that need to be changed from the modules side to work with the Rogue and the permissions system. The theme system also has some new calls to be updated.
For this reason I am going to release a Preview Package for the module and theme developers. The system has undergone some major rewrites since the .64 release. We have touched every file probably 5 times with complete system changes.
This Preview release should be ready as early as tomorrow, and at the latest this weekend. The system is quite different with the permissions and will take some time to learn if you are use to the old admin system. I would recommend installing the preview as a test only and not on a production site, until you are used to the changes.
We are doing some final touches on the install file and trying to locate as many bugs as possible in the meantime. I appreciate everyones patience in this release, since it has taken us a bit longer to get to release ready than normal, but I think that you will all be pleasantly surprised with the changes.
More on this tomorrow, as we update this site, and Steve updates the documents for the Rogue!
For this reason I am going to release a Preview Package for the module and theme developers. The system has undergone some major rewrites since the .64 release. We have touched every file probably 5 times with complete system changes.
This Preview release should be ready as early as tomorrow, and at the latest this weekend. The system is quite different with the permissions and will take some time to learn if you are use to the old admin system. I would recommend installing the preview as a test only and not on a production site, until you are used to the changes.
We are doing some final touches on the install file and trying to locate as many bugs as possible in the meantime. I appreciate everyones patience in this release, since it has taken us a bit longer to get to release ready than normal, but I think that you will all be pleasantly surprised with the changes.
More on this tomorrow, as we update this site, and Steve updates the documents for the Rogue!
So are we happy?
I was just thinking about how Harry used to be the terror of the old PHPNuke mailing list ;)
I am very happy with PN as it is progressing very well, and am happy that this turned into such a worthwhile project. I read almost every developers post on the PN-Developers list. Just to know whats comming down the pipeline.
It is amazing that PN website servers about 30k to 60k page views per hour, and about half a million visitors per month!
Looking at the sourceforge stats it would appear that there is over 27,000 sites that are running pn.64 !
So, yes im happy with where its all going, and want to say thank you all to all the developers!
And Harry, after only six months or so, has it gone where you thought it would?
AEIFORIA upgraded with postnuke 0.64, looking for volunteers
The idea behind AEIFORIA is to encourage a change in people's attitudes and involvement in the context of global sustainability, as well as to foster the development of new ethical perceptions, through new and constantly evolving educational paradigms.
The central pillar on which this idea rests is, following the conclusion arrived at in the Context section, participation:
• A wide participation throughout society is very beneficial for solving problems effectively. It helps to better understand the problems themselves, it gives a greater variety of solutions and it provides the resources necessary to implement them.
• Participation is a fundamental element of the learning process and it enhances the sense of responsibility in people. This is especially true when considering the complex issues related to the idea of sustainability, which connect the sphere of abstract ethical considerations with practical action in multiple interrelated dimensions.
• Furthermore, we stress that a fundamental aspect of the ethical and educational paradigms on which we base our thinking, and the practical mechanisms that are developed around them, is that they are subject to constant evolution. In this sense, we may consider them to be alive, and this is precisely what makes them useful. Naturally, participation is the motor of this evolution. Therefore, it is essential to provide the flexibility necessary for opportunities to open for all individuals to express their own subjectivity as a singular but essential contribution to the whole.
We give special emphasis to a holistic approach to education:
• We believe in the "creativity of diversity" principle, which is stimulated by interdisciplinary and multicultural efforts.
• We acknowledge that the learning process is a dynamic one, and the paradigms on which a holistic education is based are subject to constant evolution.
• The collaborative processes that emanate from the "creativity of diversity" principle are themselves just as important as the actual results these processes yield. This idea follows from the virtues of the participative approach described above. The "creativity of diversity" thus stimulates the evolution of paradigms referred to in the previous point.
• We aim at enhancing the social ability of learning by improving the methods and mechanisms of education. That is, we believe it is important not only to concentrate on the content of the education, but also on the structure and tools of the education system, and to investigate the changing challenges and opportunities of education.
will
will@aeiforia.org
AEIFORIA - Director of the Web section
www.aeiforia.org
The central pillar on which this idea rests is, following the conclusion arrived at in the Context section, participation:
• A wide participation throughout society is very beneficial for solving problems effectively. It helps to better understand the problems themselves, it gives a greater variety of solutions and it provides the resources necessary to implement them.
• Participation is a fundamental element of the learning process and it enhances the sense of responsibility in people. This is especially true when considering the complex issues related to the idea of sustainability, which connect the sphere of abstract ethical considerations with practical action in multiple interrelated dimensions.
• Furthermore, we stress that a fundamental aspect of the ethical and educational paradigms on which we base our thinking, and the practical mechanisms that are developed around them, is that they are subject to constant evolution. In this sense, we may consider them to be alive, and this is precisely what makes them useful. Naturally, participation is the motor of this evolution. Therefore, it is essential to provide the flexibility necessary for opportunities to open for all individuals to express their own subjectivity as a singular but essential contribution to the whole.
We give special emphasis to a holistic approach to education:
• We believe in the "creativity of diversity" principle, which is stimulated by interdisciplinary and multicultural efforts.
• We acknowledge that the learning process is a dynamic one, and the paradigms on which a holistic education is based are subject to constant evolution.
• The collaborative processes that emanate from the "creativity of diversity" principle are themselves just as important as the actual results these processes yield. This idea follows from the virtues of the participative approach described above. The "creativity of diversity" thus stimulates the evolution of paradigms referred to in the previous point.
• We aim at enhancing the social ability of learning by improving the methods and mechanisms of education. That is, we believe it is important not only to concentrate on the content of the education, but also on the structure and tools of the education system, and to investigate the changing challenges and opportunities of education.
will
will@aeiforia.org
AEIFORIA - Director of the Web section
www.aeiforia.org
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