http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/section-11-releases fr 2002-2008, Paxer Conseil bernard.paques@bigfoot.com bernard.paques@bigfoot.com 40.32 -111.68 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:18:31 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4907-yacs-8.4-user-profiles-group-messages-tabs-overlays http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4907-yacs-8.4-user-profiles-group-messages-tabs-overlays This month the user interface of YACS has been extensively reviewed, for end surfers, for power members, and for site associates. Review your own record, it's probably good time to expose more of yourself to other community members. Tabbed panels have been introduced almost everywhere, since we believe they help to locate things and to make the software more user-friendly. And the ability to send messages to editors of a section, or to category members, is our answer to the strong requirements you had on group messaging. Many changes have been made to the code, yet most of them are ... more» Bernard Releases Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:33:49 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4907-yacs-8.4-user-profiles-group-messages-tabs-overlays#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4907 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4746-yacs-8.3-time-forms-usability-seo-and-performance-profiling http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4746-yacs-8.3-time-forms-usability-seo-and-performance-profiling This month we have tackled time zones, which management has been quite painful for a while. Generally speaking, this release does not bring too many new things. Our focus has been on code quality, on bug troubleshooting, and on all these small enhacements that, at the end of the day, will make you more happy with YACS. It is time to add a dynamic calendar of events for your site, if not done yet. Add the overlay 'date' to a section created for this purpose, then add one page per event, and see by yourself how easy this can be ... more» Bernard Releases Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:17:34 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4746-yacs-8.3-time-forms-usability-seo-and-performance-profiling#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4746 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4746 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4746 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4658-yacs-8.2-forms-calendars-shaped-mails http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4658-yacs-8.2-forms-calendars-shaped-mails The interactive support of forms has been a long-lasting request, and starting with version 8.2 it is becoming a native feature of YACS. As usual, we have started with rock-solid building blocks, and you will find in this version an easy-to-use form editor that leverages the AJAX technology. This will be expanded over time with next monthly releases, thank you to test YACS forms and to provide feed-back to the development team. Support of on-line calendars has been streamlined as well, and the addition of the overlay 'day' to a section is the only configuration step required to ... more» Bernard Releases Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:29:54 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4658-yacs-8.2-forms-calendars-shaped-mails#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/4658 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/4658 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4658 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3871-yacs-8.1-ajax-photo-gallery-json-rpc-seo-performance-enhancements http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3871-yacs-8.1-ajax-photo-gallery-json-rpc-seo-performance-enhancements YACS is quite a flexible system to publish photos and images. It resizes uploaded files automatically, to ensure that they will fit nicely into page design. Thumbnail images are generated automatically as well. The new version of YACS adds a dynamic AJAX gallery, to enhance the experience of surfers navigating all these photos. YACS version 8.1 leverages AJAX development efforts started during Summer 2007. The JSON-RPC specification has been implemented this month, since we believe AJAX developers are looking for such a standard approach of interacting with back-end services. On the SEO side, this version also brings ... more» Bernard Releases Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:06:27 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3871-yacs-8.1-ajax-photo-gallery-json-rpc-seo-performance-enhancements#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3871 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3871 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3871 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3644-yacs-7.11-ajax-on-line-chats-page-templates-freemind-security-and-performance http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3644-yacs-7.11-ajax-on-line-chats-page-templates-freemind-security-and-performance AJAX has been fully integrated into YACS, including the prototype.js and scripta.culo.us.js famous libraries. These have been completed with our own Javascript library, named shared/yacs.js. Auto-completion has been integrated into several forms. For example, this is used to guide folksonomies while editing tags, and to select among users when assigning people to sections. Page templates have been added to YACS to ease content management. You have to create one page first, and then to configure sections to use it as a template for every new article. Combine page templates with some WYSIWYG editor, such ... more» Bernard Releases Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:46:17 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3644-yacs-7.11-ajax-on-line-chats-page-templates-freemind-security-and-performance#comments 5 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3644 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3644 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3644 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2358-patch-to-enable-software-update http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2358-patch-to-enable-software-update If your server runs YACS 6.6, and if you have not been able to move to a more recent version, then try this patch Bernard Releases Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:43:05 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2358-patch-to-enable-software-update#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2358 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2358 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2358 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3085-yacs-7.6-pretty-urls-tag-cloud-google-maps-digg-invitations http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3085-yacs-7.6-pretty-urls-tag-cloud-google-maps-digg-invitations At the beginning of 2007 we promised you to move towards web 2.0, and it took only about three months to deliver a comprehensive implementation of this. YACS automatically build a cloud of tags like del.icio.us, features Google maps, and order pages after ranking, like Digg. Integration with Wikipedia and with popular RSS aggregators has been improved as well. YACS also extends collaboration capability to any recipient of a mail message, which will help to leverage your community. And URL rewriting will help to better match SEO standards and to achieve high ranking for your site. Enjoy! ... more» Bernard Releases Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:47:12 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-3085-yacs-7.6-pretty-urls-tag-cloud-google-maps-digg-invitations#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/3085 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/3085 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3085 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2777-yacs-7.4-blogging-interface-file-detach-tinymce-fckeditor-jscalendar http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2777-yacs-7.4-blogging-interface-file-detach-tinymce-fckeditor-jscalendar The blogging interface has been considerably extended, and YACS now supports major available tools, such as Microsoft Windows Live Writer, ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox), Flock, BlogDesk, Post2Blog, Zoundry Blog Writer, not mentioning w.bloggar. Images can be uploaded while blogging, and free-text tags can be added as well. Also, with the support of the RSD standard, YACS allows for the auto-discovery of its blogging interface. A bare document management system has been added to YACS. A file can now be detached by an authenticated member, to let other members know that someone is working on it. The intent ... more» Bernard Releases Wed, 02 May 2007 22:39:03 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2777-yacs-7.4-blogging-interface-file-detach-tinymce-fckeditor-jscalendar#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2777 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2777 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2777 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2639-yacs-7.3-dewplayer-page-locks-ldap-hooks-backup-cron http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2639-yacs-7.3-dewplayer-page-locks-ldap-hooks-backup-cron 549 files have been modified or added since the previous release. The new release is available for immediate download. If you are already running a YACS server we highly recommend you to upgrade your server. Here is a list of new or updated features coming with this release:  dewplayer - This little Flash player is all you need to play live music or podcast. All you have to do is to attach .mp3 files to pages, and to let YACS do the job. Insertion of the dewplayer is automatic in layout, as shown in files/layout_files.php ... more» Bernard Releases Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:28:36 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2639-yacs-7.3-dewplayer-page-locks-ldap-hooks-backup-cron#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2639 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2639 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2639 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2503-yacs-7.2-free-tags-twin-pages-content-language-graphical-setup http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2503-yacs-7.2-free-tags-twin-pages-content-language-graphical-setup 339 files have been modified or introduced to the previous version (7.1). The new release is available for immediate download. If you are already running a YACS server we highly recommend you to smoothly upgrade your server. Here is a list of new or updated features coming with this release:  YACS adds tags to articles, and transform them to permanent categories in the taxonomy tree.  The main category 'keywords' hosts tags and search terms as well.  The page selector now offers to create a new page if an unknown ... more» Bernard Releases Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:58:40 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2503-yacs-7.2-free-tags-twin-pages-content-language-graphical-setup#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2503 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2503 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2503 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2396-yacs-7.1-full-internationalization-and-many-goodies http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2396-yacs-7.1-full-internationalization-and-many-goodies Internationalization bulk effort has been completed in a few amount of weeks, and the team has to be congratulated for this huge achievement. GnapZ, Agnès, you are the best! On top of that, a full set of new features have been introduced in this release, and web designers will appreciate the introduction of customized layout, the capability to rotate images in page headers, etc. Keep posted ! The new 7.2 is on its way, the www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com web site has a new skin, its content is reshuffled, and we have tons of idea for 2007 Bernard Releases Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:18:10 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2396-yacs-7.1-full-internationalization-and-many-goodies#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2396 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2396 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2396 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2103-yacs-6.12-gettext-anonymous-interactions-user-interface-overlays http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2103-yacs-6.12-gettext-anonymous-interactions-user-interface-overlays A huge effort has been made with this release to enable internationalization and localization. YACS fully supports the gettext approach, which is the de-facto standard for such a thing. Moreover, YACS has a built-in parser for .mo files, meaning it is able to read translated strings without the help of some external library. Some modules have been fully internationalized, and we are now ready to move forward for the whole software. It is now more easy for anonymous surfers to interact with a YACS server. For example, a random number is associated with any ... more» Bernard Releases Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:15:45 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-2103-yacs-6.12-gettext-anonymous-interactions-user-interface-overlays#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/2103 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/2103 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2103 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1792-yacs-6.9-safety-community-wiki-contextual-menu-nicetitle-behaviors-internationalization http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1792-yacs-6.9-safety-community-wiki-contextual-menu-nicetitle-behaviors-internationalization Safety is often linked to security, but it is more than that. Safety relates to the overall experience you will have, as a webmaster, of your web management system. Our community has learnt in past months how diverse and tough the Internet universe could be. This new version is a revisited masterpiece of PHP code, streamlined for ease of use, that supports versions 4 and 5 of PHP/MySQL run times, and that has been hardened against hackers. YACS already supported public and private web spaces. In the first case anyone, including anonymous surfers, can contribute. In the second case ... more» Bernard Releases Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:10:28 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1792-yacs-6.9-safety-community-wiki-contextual-menu-nicetitle-behaviors-internationalization#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1792 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1792 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1792 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1664-security-patch-for-yacs-6.6.1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1664-security-patch-for-yacs-6.6.1 This patch is aiming to protect your server against some PHP attacks Bernard Releases Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:06:58 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1664-security-patch-for-yacs-6.6.1#comments 1 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1664 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1664 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1664 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1507-yacs-6.6-dates-votes-and-petitions-digest-newsletters-flash-videos http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1507-yacs-6.6-dates-votes-and-petitions-digest-newsletters-flash-videos A new module and one overlay have been added to better handle the time dimension. Add events to any of your sections, and YACS will list all of them in views for one month, one year, etc. The index for dates always introduces forthcoming events. All companies that are looking for a straightforward way to present their future events will appreciate. Another module has been added to record decisions. Also, two overlays are provided to handle votes and petitions. The aim is to support on-line communities to take objective and collective decisions. YACS offers: polls for fast and dirty ... more» Bernard Releases Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:35:52 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1507-yacs-6.6-dates-votes-and-petitions-digest-newsletters-flash-videos#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1507 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1507 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1507 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1222-yacs-6.4-subscriptors-centralised-user-database-aggregation-usability http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1222-yacs-6.4-subscriptors-centralised-user-database-aggregation-usability The basic YACS security scheme relies on following roles: associates, members, subscriptors, and anonymous surfers. Basically, subscriptors are community members with no right to contribute. In previous versions members could be made editors of selected sections. This month we have added the capability to make subscriptors readers of protected sections. Webmasters can use this feature to better control people who are allowed to access content of their site. YACS now supports the sharing of user information among several sites. All you have to do is to add new database settings for users in the configuration panel for system parameters ... more» Bernard Releases Mon, 08 May 2006 21:24:38 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-1222-yacs-6.4-subscriptors-centralised-user-database-aggregation-usability#comments 2 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/1222 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/1222 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1222 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-998-yacs-6.3-has-been-released-fckeditor-user-support-php5-mysql5 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-998-yacs-6.3-has-been-released-fckeditor-user-support-php5-mysql5 FCKEditor, the famous WYSIWYG tool, has been integrated into the YACS archive, and every member can select to use it, or to stick to the legacy textarea panel. YACS codes and smileys are still available under FCKEditor, anyway. This new version improves on user support, through confirmation messages and improvement of the login page. Confirmation messages are sent after registration for adequate storage of credentials. Additional messages are sent on password change. Also, members e-mail addresses may be validated if associates require to do so. In that case applicants are only subscribers. On reception of confirmation message they will ... more» Bernard Releases Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:34:08 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-998-yacs-6.3-has-been-released-fckeditor-user-support-php5-mysql5#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/998 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/998 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A998 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-819-the-archive-you-need-to-render-s5-presentations http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-819-the-archive-you-need-to-render-s5-presentations YACS version 6.2 includes everything that is needed to deliver S5 interactive presentations, but this is limited to reference skins. You should download the attached archive to add S5 capability to the private skin used at your site Bernard Releases Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:18:58 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-819-the-archive-you-need-to-render-s5-presentations#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/819 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/819 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A819 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-807-yacs-6.2-has-been-released-supports-s5-freemind-matroska-multimedia-formats-and-enhances-web-space-management http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-807-yacs-6.2-has-been-released-supports-s5-freemind-matroska-multimedia-formats-and-enhances-web-space-management YACS now integrates the famous S5 library from Eric Meyer, and lets you create interactive on-line presentations out of ordinary web pages. YACS supports mind maps and the related Freemind open-source software. Not only can you post a map to a YACS server to share it throughout a community. You can also view it directly from within the browser window through the provided Freemind Java applet. This architecture allows for a rich graphical interface to any complex topic or web content. YACS also supports the Matroska format for video and audio files. Do you know that Matroska files ... more» Bernard Releases Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:25:21 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-807-yacs-6.2-has-been-released-supports-s5-freemind-matroska-multimedia-formats-and-enhances-web-space-management#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/807 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/807 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A807 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-683-yacs-6.1-has-been-released-and-enhance-on-audio-and-video-delivery http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-683-yacs-6.1-has-been-released-and-enhance-on-audio-and-video-delivery YACS now integrates the excellent library getid3 to provide more information on file content before and during streaming. This means that singer names and song titles are displayed instead of cryptic file names. Likely, VLC and Winamp nicely display the same information, plus song duration --no more complex web links Bernard Releases Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:53:37 GMT http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-683-yacs-6.1-has-been-released-and-enhance-on-audio-and-video-delivery#comments 0 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/post.php/article/683 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/comments/feed.php/article/683 http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A683