Yay! Bunch of concrete5 news..
by Franz
5.2 has been officially released, no more “release candidate.”
We’ve landed two large projects that will improve concrete5 in dramatic ways. First, we’re helping a very excellent creative agency build a big site for a major organization, and it involves a complete overhaul of the file system and asset manager. This is wonderful stuff. This means no more single directory with timestamp prefixes on files, but rather a well thought out system with versions, permissions, meta data – all sorts of nice stuff.
Second, we’re building a major ecommerce implementation for a fun children’s book publisher that integrates concrete5 with Magento Commerce. Both are very powerful applications for what they do, and should behave well as one product in the future.
We’re also releasing some more add-ons to the marketplace, starting with the ad block today and with the calendar block right around the corner. The forums are going to be heading out to our beta team & user groups shortly – progress is being made on all fronts.
All of this means we’re quite busy, bringing on more help, and generally loving where we are with concrete5! We have to scale back our already limited involvement in the day-to-day postings of the forum. Andrew and I are going to try to get through all un-answered threads once a week if we can, but you’re going to have to continue to rely on the community experts that have already started to answer most stuff in there. If you would like an “official” view on something in a timely fashion, I would strongly encourage you to evaluate the worth of concrete5 to your business and join our Partnership Programs, where we promise your issue attention within 48 hours, typically 8.
So I hope you’re all having a great start of ’09 so far – it’s clearly going to be a very exciting year.
thanks for all your hard work! I’m really pleased to hear about the new developments! I recently discovered C5 and I’m going to be rolling it out for about 4-5 sites. Your hosting solution doesn’t quite work out for them but I’ll try to be kicking back a few hundred per site to help out and joining the Partner Program.
Mario
12 Mar 09 at 10:41 am
I greatly appreciate the work you all have done with C5. So far a very Wonderful product!
I am interested in the new developments you mentioned. I could see that that may make blogging easier to store and manage. Have you given much thought into the versioning backend tool? I would personally like to see you use something like GIT rather than some database. There are two quasi-CMS systems that I know that are using GIT. One being SMUG by Andrew McNabb, et al. The other is gitology.
Good luck!
Dutch Boy
23 Mar 09 at 10:53 am
interesting that someone has done a CMS based on version control software….
that’s not gonna be us though. Concrete5 makes extensive use of the database, and actually creates a version layer on top of it. We would get none of the benefits and it would essentially be a complete rebuild – really rethink- of how things works.. We’re not creating files in your c5 site, we’re creating data in a database we serve as needed..
that being said, we already have page versions, file versions, etc.. what would be the point of going to git?
Franz
29 Mar 09 at 9:25 pm