Bricolage 1.10.0 is Out!
January 24th, 2006
Bricolage, the perl open-source content management system we use at SAPO for boosting up some of our sites (like it’sHomepage, the help/support site, two major national newspapers:DN and JN, etc.) have reached an important stage with a new version just released today! As you can attest by reading the offical announcement, there were a lot of improvements and house cleaning, To me, as bricolage system administrator and developer they are a few, very important ones, I would like to summarize here…
- A revamped user interface: the old interface had major usability problems, so it’s in my opinion one of the most important developments. The new user interface, is XHTML compliant and now fully supports CSS styling, it now uses much more screen area than the older interface base on tables. The new interface is also powered by javascript, allowing some functions to be made using Ajax technology and allowing for instance the edition of documents without reloads.
- Bricolage, now supports PHP templating, thanks to the PHP::Interpreter, that allows you to use the PHP5 interpreter from within the Perl interpreter, giving developers easy access between them. This feature was made possible thanks to the support given by SAPO on this development as an open-source sponsor.
- LDAP Authentication is now support, but most important is that to allow LDAP, Bricolage now supports a pluggable authentication allowing it’s developers to built and use they’re preferred authentication methods.
Seems also, an unfortunately for me (heheh) that there was also room left for some normalization, so some of the names changed, but I actually think might pay the effort of converting our templates and scripts, since the old namespace used had lots of tricky things and could became quite confusing at some point.
Well for all the effort, congrats David of this successful release! 
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1. Gothic | January 24th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
http://ajuda.sapo.pt/ -> Vê o título desta página… está repetido!
Já agora o http://www.sapo.pt/robots.txt não está dentro do standard.. é “User-agent” e não “User-Agent”.
Boa continuação…
2. Gothic | January 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Outra coisa.. pelo que vejo o http://www.SAPO.pt ainda usa a versão 1.8.0, e a 1.8.9 estável já saiu à muito.. já deviam actualizar =)
3. Pedro | January 24th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Thanks for the notes! :O
About we’re still using an older version, we still have some legacy systems that required or at least delayed our migration to new versions, but we will. And probably jump for the 1.10 already.
4. Pedro | January 24th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
About the robots.txt, I just read the following on the http://www.robotstxt.org/ :
so it might not be an error or non standard complaint, correct?
5. Gothic | January 24th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Try here: http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml
” http://www.sapo.pt/robots.txt “
6. Pedro | January 24th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Which part of an advise you want me to follow:
I rest my case! hein?
7. Gothic | January 24th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Another example: http://www.google.pt/robots.txt:
Maybe in the standard mode, all the search engines will index it! =)
8. Visitante X | January 25th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Hello!
Can you recommend a good Linux distribution for me to install at home, to make a testbed for a Bricolage System? I have already read the requirements, but I’m in doubt which Linux distro is the best.
9. Pedro | January 25th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Well, Bricolage pretty much on any distribution you might want, but I’ll recomend you to use Debian or Fedora, since those are the ones I’ve installed it before without major hassles.
10. ENGRENAGEM - Media e Tecn&hellip | January 28th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
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