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Over the past week and a half, I've successfully upgraded the three servers that I'm managing which run xAppOS-based websites. Progressively, I've been updating each website to activate the new System Events architecture, and the roll-out has gone reasonably smoothly.As with any new software feature or functionality, there's a certain number of bugs and coding challenges that can only be seen when running the code in a live (production) environment. Real-world testing is still a necessary evil. Here we are...
Today marks the first day when a new feature of xAppOS goes live on several websites. It is a feature that has been in development for several months and finally reached a state deemed stable enough for being let out in the wild. This system is an Event+Action system where actions can be run by triggering events. This system solves a challenge that has been becoming more and more apparent as the xAppOS platform grows and matures. A growing portion...
MyBlog is the name of our Blog software for the xAppOS web framework. It provides an easy way for our clients to maintain a blog, filled with rich content and syndication in a variety of ways - email subscriptions, RSS, ping services, Ping.fm, and so on.The most recent update to MyBlog added the support for what we call Substitutions. This is a feature that enables the blog author to define content they want to include into a number of blog...
xAppOS - the magic behind our sites.For the past several years, we (The Digital Orchard) have been developing a website framework that forms the foundation on which we build most of our clients' websites. This framework has evolved through several versions and architectures to become what it is today. There's many web frameworks available, each bringing their own strengths to the table. Some are full-featured self-contained packages, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and others aim to be really good...