http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/category-16-what-is-yacs-about-anyway The features that, together, make YACS almost unique fr 2002-2008, Paxer Conseil bernard.paques@bigfoot.com bernard.paques@bigfoot.com 40.32 -111.68 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:35:10 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-14-features http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-14-features YACS is just aiming to raise the standard in Apache/mySQL/PHP environment for the support of web communities Bernard The vision Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:06:08 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-14-features#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/14 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/14 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A14 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-41-upgrades http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-41-upgrades Life is constantly requiring us to adapt, and software is no exception to this rule. Imagine the situation: you have discovered YACS, installed it, played a while with a number of interesting features. Then you have started to push some content, to structure your work, to tune a skin. Some weeks later, a brand new version of the software has been made available, and of course it is very appealing because of the new things that have been added. Can this change put your server at risk? And how much time will you have to burn in ... more » Bernard Software installation and upgrade Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:15:05 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-41-upgrades#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/41 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/41 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A41 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-167-yacs-as-a-news-aggregator http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-167-yacs-as-a-news-aggregator Gather and classify news from other sites. Make searchable and meaningful links out of these news Bernard The capability Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:37:27 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-167-yacs-as-a-news-aggregator#comments 5 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/167 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/167 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A167 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2806-how-to-use-windows-live-writer-with-yacs http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2806-how-to-use-windows-live-writer-with-yacs What is Windows Live Writer? This is a desktop tool to write and manage blogs asynchronously, like w.bloggar and others. Windows Live Writer is a very powerful tool, benefiting from Microsoft long track of experience on desktop software. For the end-user, Microsoft Windows Live Writer offers unique features such as: a full WYSIWYG approach for the easy authoring of sophisticated pages, the attachement of images and photos, which are automatically submitted to the server along posts, the computation of nice thumbnails, with several nice options, posts can be tagged, and assigned to categories as well, old posts can be browsed and retrieved for modification. ... more » Bernard Authoring Sun, 06 May 2007 23:02:56 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2806-how-to-use-windows-live-writer-with-yacs#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2806 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2806 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2806 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-362-how-to-develop-on-top-of-yacs http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-362-how-to-develop-on-top-of-yacs YACS, like many CMS packages, can be extended with additional pieces of software. Do you have to add a new feature to YACS? Would you like to integrate an existing set of PHP scripts into YACS? If you have answered Yes to any of these questions this page is for you. Here you will learn how to add any PHP script to a YACS system, and to integrate it to our lovely templating system Bernard Developer's guide Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:25:52 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-362-how-to-develop-on-top-of-yacs#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A362 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-493-how-to-podcast-with-yacs http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-493-how-to-podcast-with-yacs How to publish files? You have two methods to upload .mp3 files. Firstly, you can attach one or several files to any article, as shown here. Or you may prefer to click on the 'Share a file' link in your user menu, and to upload directly. In both cases public files are listed by YACS: at related articles (example) at the index page for files in the RSS feed for files, as demonstrated with the image below As a matter of fact, the only thing to do to podcast with YACS is to ... more » Bernard Syndication Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:02:13 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-493-how-to-podcast-with-yacs#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/493 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/493 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A493 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-413-the-manual-is-born http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-413-the-manual-is-born One of the very first items of The 2005 roadmap is the development of a comprehensive yet easy and task-oriented on-line electronic manual for YACS. Tonight I have rapidly shuffled some existing pages to produce section support. Not kidding. Of course this will be a continuous effort throughout the year. But at least we have a starting point. And, frankly speaking, I have been surprised by the so many things put on-line through blogging during the last 12 months. What do you think? This manual is still in its infancy so do not hesitate to contribute ... more » Bernard The capability Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:06:20 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-413-the-manual-is-born#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/413 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/413 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A413 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-403-the-2005-roadmap http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-403-the-2005-roadmap 2004 has been a very important year for YACS, because of the so many new features that have been added. Now my own mother has started to use a YACS system to report on family events, and she is new to Internet technologies. However, this powerful package is still a little baby compared to other PHP/MySQL solutions. In 2005 we will have to make it a mature solution -- together. Ideally, I would like my last boy (he's 7) to install his first YACS server on his own. And I am hoping to draw YACS to the attention to ... more » Bernard The capability Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:12:01 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-403-the-2005-roadmap#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/403 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/403 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A403 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-399-you-have-driven-yacs-development http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-399-you-have-driven-yacs-development Since we are closing the year it’s good to review what has been done so far. YACS has evolved tremendously over the last 12 months. And it is my very pleasure to admit that a lot of the new features have been suggested by one of you. Therefore, thank you for your positive input and directions Bernard The capability Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:42:35 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-399-you-have-driven-yacs-development#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/399 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/399 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A399 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-395-yacs-has-less-bugs-supposedly http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-395-yacs-has-less-bugs-supposedly Open-source advocates have stated for a long time that sharing source files had very good effects on program quality. This has been proven to be true for Linux. Moreover, while Stanford University computer science researchers have not looked at YACS yet, I'm pretty sure we are already doing better than usual commercial software Bernard The capability Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:33:57 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-395-yacs-has-less-bugs-supposedly#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A395 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-392-ten-things-your-web-sites-should-be-doing http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-392-ten-things-your-web-sites-should-be-doing Nick Finck wrote on Dec-15th: "Rather than posting about my web predictions for 2005 or rambling off a list of products or tools you must have, etc. I have decided that this year I will post a list of things you should have or be doing on your web site or Intranet. After all, we are living in a modern world, it's time your web sites start acting like it." Ok, lets see how this site -- and, more generally, any YACS server -- compares to Nick's wish list Bernard The capability Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:41:30 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-392-ten-things-your-web-sites-should-be-doing#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A392 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-368-how-to-send-a-newsletter http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-368-how-to-send-a-newsletter In this tutorial we will show you how simple it is to list most recent articles and to make an e-mail out of it Bernard Content management Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:22:03 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-368-how-to-send-a-newsletter#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/368 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/368 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A368 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-363-why-should-you-suggest-your-boss-to-switch-to-yacs http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-363-why-should-you-suggest-your-boss-to-switch-to-yacs Is your company looking for an open-source platform to support intranet web servers? Ok, you have checked all major solutions available today, from those recommended by CMSWatch to those listed at DMOZ. Can we suggest to consider YACS as well? You may be surprised by the number of features that do match corporate needs. Well, actually YACS has been used to support some intranet web sites for about 18 months, and therefore we do have the experience of such things Bernard The vision Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:55:42 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-363-why-should-you-suggest-your-boss-to-switch-to-yacs#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A363 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-327-yacs-adds-authentication-to-the-comment-api http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-327-yacs-adds-authentication-to-the-comment-api When posting a comment through a newsreader your web site will basically receive a mail address and a name. This may be enough to report on author information in the comment itself. But this is also an open door to comment spammers. Therefore, YACS extends this mechanism with true poster authentication Bernard The capability Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:09:13 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-327-yacs-adds-authentication-to-the-comment-api#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/327 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/327 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A327 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-328-what-is-the-difference-between-a-section-and-a-category http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-328-what-is-the-difference-between-a-section-and-a-category Sections feature security, overlays and rendering styles Bernard Content management Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:24:45 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-328-what-is-the-difference-between-a-section-and-a-category#comments 3 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/328 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/328 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A328 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-334-yacs-supports-distributed-authentication http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-334-yacs-supports-distributed-authentication Actually, YACS implements Drupal's authentication web service Bernard The capability Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:04:16 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-334-yacs-supports-distributed-authentication#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/334 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/334 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A334 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-324-how-to-monitor-a-yacs-server-using-rss http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-324-how-to-monitor-a-yacs-server-using-rss Actually it is almost as simple as the usual subscription to any RSS feed. We only have added some HTTP authentication to restrict access to associates Bernard Syndication Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:15:36 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-324-how-to-monitor-a-yacs-server-using-rss#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/324 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/324 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A324 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-322-yacs-fully-supports-the-comment-api http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-322-yacs-fully-supports-the-comment-api As proven by following screen captures, YACS RSS 2.0 feeds generate enough information to enable comments from within RSS Bandit Bernard The capability Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:21:54 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-322-yacs-fully-supports-the-comment-api#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/322 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/322 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A322 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-316-ssra http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-316-ssra I'm proud to announce the first public release of the Simple Search RSS API, the application programming interface to any YACS server and search engine Bernard The capability Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:54:13 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-316-ssra#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/316 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/316 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A316 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-286-this-page-including-images-and-attached-files-has-been-sent-as-a-single-multipart-e-mail-message http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-286-this-page-including-images-and-attached-files-has-been-sent-as-a-single-multipart-e-mail-message A lot of people are still more comfortable with messaging systems than with interactive web forms. This is a fact. Of course YACS has very powerful features to webify existing information. Most of time a simple cut and paste operation is enough to share legacy data with others. However we also have to recognize that such a thing may rapidly become very tedious. And at the same time we still have a lot of useful data in our mail boxes. This is why the messaging interface of YACS is so important. Previously you had to export data from your ... more » Bernard Bug tracker Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:15:44 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-286-this-page-including-images-and-attached-files-has-been-sent-as-a-single-multipart-e-mail-message#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/286 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/286 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A286