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CMS Inquiry
Good day CyberGameZone and to the community.
We are reaching out to all the members regarding a CMS replacement perhaps.
If you are not aware, this site and many others hosted by the CyberGameZone business uses a CMS called e107. In the last 1-2 yrs- it appears the community is slowing down. And as stated, "appears". e107 has been used since about 2002. And we love e107. But in order to continue with new features and such an activate community needs an active or an attractive site.
We ask from you to post your comment here about some open source CMS's you may think would work for CyberGameZone.
For all the newer folks folks reading this...
What exactly is a CMS?
CMS is a multifunctional application. It is capable to create a powerful portal website in a matter of minutes and it has wide supporting community. The CMS portals offer intuitive administration and dispose of detailed tutorials. CMS consists of a content management application which enables the management and modification of content without advanced webmaster knowledge, and a content delivery application, that uses new information to update the website.
e107 for a long time had been listed in the top 2-5. Unfortunately that has slipped after doing some googling and finding the average of this-
#1 Joomla! 1.0 is an award-winning CMS. It is suitable for creating personal and business websites. To your Joomla CMS you can add many extra modules and components which will enhance the value of your website and will enrich your visitors' experience.
#2 Joomla! 1.5 is the new and improved version of the award-winning CMS. It provides refined and simplified menus and improved site and media management.
#3 Mambo is among the most powerful and commonly used Content Management Systems ever. With its help you can create simple as well as more complex corporate website. It provides a lot of wonderful functionalities, it has easy to manage control panel and is user-friendly
Ironic that the top 3 are for the most part from the same roots. *wink
#4 With Drupal you can easily build many different types of web pages - from simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal's design is not as fancy as those of Mambo or Joomla!, but it is very easy to customize, has built-in search tool and search-engine friendly URL's as an extra module, discussion capabilities and news aggregator.
#5 phpNuke is another powerful Open Source portal application. It can be used as a weblog or as a CMS. The webmaster can add a lot of new features and customize the appearance of the website. PHPNuke is suitable for game clan and guild sites. Each user can post articles and comments.
CyberGameZone has been originally on phpNuke and looks possibly the best solution for CyberGameZone.com if it were to move. Ugh- the database migration.
#6 PostNuke is both a weblog and a content management system. It also serves community-based web projects with its built-in discussion features. PostNuke is designed to offer more open development environment. It is very powerful and works in high-volume environments with ease.
#7 TYPO3 is suitable for enterprise websites and for intranets. There is a flexible basic Typo3 installation that can be extended through extra ready-made modules and interfaces. The design of TYPO3 is template-based and the webmaster can create own templates using the configuration language TypoScript.
#8 Stay at e107 With e107 the webmaster can create easy and quick business (intranet) or community websites. There is a powerful forums system as a built-in application and a high performance file-based caching in e107 CMS. It is released under the GNU General Public Licence.
Feel free to comment here on the news. And please vote on the poll to the right. Thank you.
Man shatters Asteroids game world record in Hillsboro, Oregon.
By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian April 06, 2010, 8:22AM
Attention all you gamers out there: Hillsboro may go down in the books as the spot where the world record for Asteroids was broken -- unofficially, at least.
John McAllister, 42, of Seattle, played the Atari arcade classic, Asteroids, for more than three days, racking up a record-breaking score of 41,338,740 points. How long did it take McAllister, who holds more than two dozen world records in gaming? Three days. McAllister streamed his feat on Justin.tv.
and events from the city of Hillsboro, Oregon Breaking News, Roundup, Washington County » Man shatters Asteroids game world record in Hillsboro By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian April 06, 2010, 8:22AM asteroids.jpgdefaultprime.comAttention all you gamers out there: Hillsboro may go down in the books as the spot where the world record for Asteroids was broken -- unofficially, at least.
John McAllister, 42, of Seattle, played the Atari arcade classic, Asteroids, for more than three days, racking up a record-breaking score of 41,338,740 points. How long did it take McAllister, who holds more than two dozen world records in gaming? Three days. McAllister streamed his feat on Justin.tv.
Reports Wired Magazine: At 10:18 p.m. Pacific, he scored 41,338,740 points, a new all-time high score. In doing so, he beat a record that has stood for over 27 years.
McAllister played the game at the home of a Hillsboro friend.
And for those of you wondering just how McAllister managed to go so long without a break, he slipped away at key moments.
Every few hours, once he had racked up enough extra lives, McAllister got up from his barstool, paced the room, ate a sandwich, then sits back down to play. A last-minute bathroom break Monday evening almost cost McAllister the title: He got down to only two ships remaining before rallying back.
McAllister's score will remain unofficial until it's verified by Twin Galaxies.
Army changes basic training to deal with gamer generation
Basic training is about to get more advanced. And recruits can thank games for that.
In an interview with Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, NPR reports that the U.S. Army is altering its basic training program for the first time in 20 years, in part to better train recruits weaned on video games.
"This isn't a decline in our recruits; this is a decline in our American society in terms of their physical capacity," Hertling told NPR. "It's just a softer generation."
Hertling goes on to explain that while new soldiers are "advanced in terms of their use of technology," they're perhaps "not as advanced in their physical capabilities or ability to go into a fight. So we're taking that into consideration as well in doing this holistic review of how we do training."
So what's in store for new recruits? Hertling says the new basic training regimen will focus more on teaching recruits essential combat skills, from the use of "weapons, knives, bayonets, [and] sticks" to hand-to-hand techniques like punching, kicking, and martial arts. His aim is to better prepare them for the potentially grueling physical experience of serving in unfriendly environments.
That includes an added emphasis on discipline, which Hertling contends just isn't what it used to be.
"We certainly have a generation that is not as disciplined when they enter the military," he said, adding that while the new generation has "what they believe is a form of courage or discipline, it's not what we expect of a soldier in very tense and difficult situations."
The news comes just weeks after the Pentagon announced plans to fund new research into using games to train soldiers. The Army in particular has had a healthy working relationship with the games industry; its freely-distributed first-person shooter America's Army has enjoyed great success as a recruitment tool.
While Hertling isn’t enamored with their physical prowess, he believes new soldiers with a background in games do offer one distinct advantage.
"They're different. They have a technology edge. I think they're smarter than any generation we've ever had before," he said. "They certainly ask a lot more difficult questions."
"It appears Valve has begun another ARG (Alternate Reality Game) similar to the one that led up to the release of the original Portal game. A recent Portal update unlocked a new achievement which has uncovered various hidden images and sounds containing references to the Portal and Half-Life universe. Many believe this to be part of the run-up to the announcement of Portal 2 and/or the next installment of the Half-Life series.
A thread on the Steam forums has already reached over 1 million views as people piece together the information. (Steampowered.com)
Based on clues from the ARG, some are speculating an announcement at the 2010 Game Developers Conference where Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell is to receive this year's Pioneer Award."
Over on the PC, The Sims and World of Warcraft franchises accounted for six of the ten spots. Twin behemoths Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard almost tied up the whole shebang, but Sega's historical strategy hit Empire: Total War snagged tenth.
1 PC The Sims 3 Electronic Arts 2 PC World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack Blizzard Entertainment (Activision Blizzard) 3 PC The Sims 2 Double Deluxe Electronic Arts 4 PC World of Warcraft: Battle Chest Blizzard Entertainment (Activision Blizzard) 5 PC Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Activision (Activision Blizzard) 6 PC World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment (Activision Blizzard) 7 PC The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack Electronic Arts 8 PC Spore Electronic Arts 9 PC Dragon Age: Origins Electronic Arts 10 PC Empire: Total War Sega of America
Although the video game retail sector ended the year with a record-breaking performance in December, the year's overall total fell 8% compared to 2008.
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