Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.

Birmingham, UK (PRWEB) November 3, 2008 — Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.

Released as an Open Source project by founder Dries Buytaert in 2001, Drupal has grown substantially and has been downloaded almost 1.5 million times in the last 12 months. It is currently being applied by companies such as Warner Brothers Music, MTV UK, and the New York Observer amongst others.

“These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe” said Buytaert in response to the news. “Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites” he concluded.

With votes coming from a panel of industry experts and visitors to Packt’s website, this year’s Awards proved to be the most popular and also the highest quality. The task of selecting a top three from the finalists was a difficult one for the judges due to their high standards and myriad features.

Finishing in second place and receiving $3,000 was Joomla!, the youngest of the three finalists and a previous winner of the Overall Award. Judges were impressed with Joomla’s ease of installation and ability to get a website up-and-running in a short space of time. Particular praise was reserved for its sizeable and enthusiastic community, which has allowed the project to grow so quickly in such a short space of time.

In third place and receiving $2,000 was DotNetNuke, the only CMS in the final that is written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. DotNetNuke received positive feedback from judges who were impressed with its ease of development and security implementation features.

Alongside the Overall Award, Packt ran categories for best Open Source PHP Content Management System and best Open Source CMS that isn’t written in PHP. The final category was the Most Promising Open Source CMS, which was won by SilverStripe. Packt handed out a total of $20,000 in prize money to the winning Content Management Systems.

Winners in the other final categories include:
-   Most Promising: SilverStripe
-   Best Open Source PHP: Drupal
-   Best non PHP Open Source CMS: Plone

The Awards were designed to recognize and reward Open Source CMS’s for their consistently high standards in what is an extremely competitive field. The result of this year’s Award confirms this quality and also suggests that there isn’t necessarily one CMS that is the best, more that there is the best one to fit an individual user’s needs and requirements.

Full results of the 2008 Open Source CMS Award can be found at PacktPub.com/Award

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Packt’s books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today’s systems, applications, and frameworks. Their solutions-based books give readers the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies they’re using to get the job done.

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ITechInside.com is a website where you can discover different websites and share links to your friends. You can not get all websites here but you will get web links related to information technology as it is clear from its web address. You can get all stuffs like tutorials, tips, tricks, how to, manuals, information, technical news, etc. User can post websites here and they can save their favourite links. This website is based on social networking so user can add their friends in their friend list or can share links to new friends. All IT related links can be posted here in different categories like web design, web development, hardware, software, domain and web hosting, security, networking, graphics, downloads, etc. Check out your favourite stuffs today at itechinside.com.

Have you ever received a request to visit a link http://www.fanebook.com from your friend or unknown persons or through group messaging? If you visited that link and entered your facebook username and password in that website then change your facebook password immediately. This website fanebook.com is a exact replica of our very popular social networking website facebook.com. This type of phishing attack is increasing day by day in the world of web. Before also there were such several websites with fake facebook login screen. People use this technique to find out your password and get into your account. Most dangerous thing is that many people use same password for different accounts like bank account, paypal, etc. Therefore, these types of attacks can become extremely malicious. So beware of such kind of links.

OrangeHRM is a web-based PHP/MySQL app which I’m confident will be unknown to most readers but hopefully will pique your interest.

OrangeHRM is, as its name suggests, a human resource information system. The project team have a roadmap detailing where they want to head, with three major facilities available now. The first is fairly obvious, capturing personal details of staff members along with name, contact details, next of kin, salary and so forth. A photograph and any supporting documents like a resume or copies of licenses can be attached.

Secondly, reports can be constructed from a range of custom search criteria and fields. The report definition can be saved and re-executed at any time. This allows HR to quickly identify staff based on the requirement at hand, be it all members of a certain team, foreign nationals whose working visas are due to expire, all employees who have attained a specific educational qualification or any other circumstance that can be imagined.

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My another interest that I haven’t shared yet is video editing and mixing. I used to do video mixing and editing before 4/5 years when I was doing my +2. I did all these things only for fun. I tried different video editing softwares like Adobe Premiere, MGI Videowave, Ulead Videostudio, etc. One sample work that I have done is posted in my new video sharing website Video Sansar. It’s not so good, just mixed some video clips and audio using MGI Videowave. Just check it below!

In my previous post there was a tutorial about hosting website in your own home personal computer. But is it good or reliable to host your own website? There are some limitations in doing so. First you need a very high quality internet connection speed in your computer. There should not be down time. You have to give 24 hr/day to monitor your server. In case of professional web hosting companies, they have fully qualified full time staffs to monitor and maintain the server’s performance.

Next problem is with IP address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). They assign different IP addresses for your computer when you connect to the internet which is called Dynamic IP. This can be solved by using Dynamic IP Updater software in your computer but this method is not reliable. Or you have to pay extra amount to your ISP for dedicated Static or non-changing IP address. Next limitation may be your port number where your web server runs. Usually apache web server runs on port 80 of your computer. There may be the case that your ISP can block this port and this may cause the connection closed or you have to run the server in next port.

So the conclusion is that it is better to host your website in any professional web hosting providers which have very low down time with very high bandwidth internet connection, are secured with latest softwares and tools and are monitored and maintained all the time with qualified staffs. The hosting cost are also cheaper. There are some hosting companies which provide you unlimited disk space with unlimited bandwidth in just 3$ per month. If you just want to know that how the web server actually works then you can try it at home. Just click here to read step-by-step instructions.

Do you want to host your website in your own home computer and make it available to world? I am going to describe the simple steps to set up your own web hosting server in your computer.

Here I am using WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server which is fully configured and easy to install. The steps listed here do not provide explanations in depth. I assume that you have technical knowledge about how to do which is required.

Step 1: Installing Web Server in your computer

• Click here to download WampServer. [WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager to easily manage your databases.]
• Double click .EXE file and follow the instructions on the screen. The WampServer is installed automatically with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database.
• Now start WampServer from Start>All Programs>WampServer>Start WampServer if you did not select to start automatically while installation.
• You can put your web files inside www directory of WampServer installation directory. (Generally c:\wamp\www).
• To check your web server, type http://localhost in your web browser’s address bar. The hosted folders will be listed in your web browser. This shows that your web server is installed successfully and ready to run web files.

Step 2: Make Your Website Available to World

• Your new web server responses for incoming requests on port 80. If you have a software firewall or a NAT firewall (router), then these requests may be blocked. You will need to configure your firewall to allow incoming requests on port 80. If you’re having trouble configuring your firewall, check Software firewall configuration and Hardware firewall configuration.
• Now your web server is accessible from outside by browsing your IP address. You can know your IP address from WhatIsMyIP.com. But browsing your website using IP address is not reliable and practical. Next thing your IP address is always changing. So you have to get static IP for your webserver which is described in next point.
• Here I am using DynDNS.org which provides free URL that points to the IP address of your web server. Go to DynDNS.org and create your free account there.
• After creating your account, log in to their website and go to Dynamic DNS and click on Add Dynamic DNS. Choose your desired name (eg. MyWebServer) and select dyndns.org from the drop-down. Now your website URL will be http://mywebserver.dyndns.org.
• If the IP address field isn’t automatically filled in, enter your IP address. (Get your IP address at WhatIsMyIP.com) Then click on Add Host.
• After doing all these steps you have to install Dynamic DNS Updating Client which can be found in Support section of DynDNS.org. This will help to update your changing IP address to DynDNS.org.

Now you are done and ready to host your own website from your home computer. Did you find this tutorial helpful or useless? Have any comments and suggestions? Please do post them here.