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FrogCMS: a simple, clean CMS.

Dion Moult — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:28:50 +0000

The other day I was looking for a CMS to run E2-Productions on. People who exclaim “what? You’re not going to engineer your own solution?” clearly have their priorities in the wrong places. If there’s one thing I learned in programming, it’s never, ever to reinvent the wheel. (unless you don’t know how wheels work yet)

I wanted to make E2 easy to maintain, easy to update, and most of all easy to switch between different ideas of what the site should contain. A CMS was a clear solution to this problem. E2 is the site I plan to use to showcase my portfolio in greater detail. Wipup is free to host my works-in-progresses, and thinkMoult is and always should be just a blog.

Being such a simple site with mainly static pages (perhaps a contact form) it was clear that the big poisons like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal etc were clearly out of the picture. WordPress is a CMS but a pain when you look at the source, and is mainly targeted at blogs. Some poking around led me to discover FrogCMS.

I downloaded the tarball, and had it up and running on my localhost within seconds. A quick tour around the administrator backend was enough to tell me this had all my needs covered. It supported markdown, templating, page hierarchies, and I think I glimpsed at some out-of-the-box SEO. Browsing their website also unearthed some useful plugins, although I think I will code for my needs manually.

The next step is to come up with a design. However, that’s not stopping me from using WIPUP to start tracking the upcoming upgrades on E2-Productions!

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E2-Productions Services page updated

Dion Moult — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:19:57 +0000

Just a small update for today. The services page on E2-Productions.com has been updated. I’m up again for hire on some small jobs.

Some posts I have planned up that you can look forward to:

I made an animated presentation with some horrendous deadlines.
The “Perspective” magazine which I designed and compiled has been published, and it looks spankingly awesome.
As soon as Amarok 2 gets into the official tree in portage, I’m going to review it.
How to use your computer: part 2.
Going to review a wonderful collection of applications I’ve determined are vital for any (Linux) system.
I’m going to review a book on Blender.
More very secret stuff I have planned. (yes, that counts as another bullet point)

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Hackathon Release 2 is out!

Dion Moult — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:51:44 +0000

E2-Productions.com’s release 2 is out! Lots of oven-fresh updates ready for testing!

View updates here:

http://e2-productions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5

… and you shall go forth and post comments (on the forum thread, not here)!

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A Smart Registration

Dion Moult — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:00:31 +0000

E2-Productions has had the registration system down for a while to stop people registering whilst the portfolio system testing was going on. The portfolio system is about 99% finished so the registration system is up again. The project system will be undergoing testing at the end of this week (Saturday) so stay tuned for an update on that. Hopefully by next week the site can be released.

Meanwhile, E2 has upgraded its registration page in the process. No longer does it ask you for only your desired username, password and your email, it now guides you through an IQ test to make sure we don’t get stuck with a low-quality community. Also, it’s to keep our “personal” side whilst keeping the site professional.

To register, once on E2-Productions.com just click on My Account and click the Register link. You will see the test includes a grammar checker, so we don get pos leik funny u no. We also check your mathematical skills and your ability to follow instructions, as well as a simple test of common sense.

The original test was devised by The Kingdom Of Loathing, and found on their Altar of Literacy once joining. So credits go to them for their Literacy test and Common Sense test. Should you have any trouble, please post your comments here.

Upcoming schedule is as such: This Saturday – project system for testing. This Monday – BMR updated and maintained. This Wednesday – POSE2 latest version released.

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Hackathon Release 1 out!

Dion Moult — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:16:56 +0000

Check out more information here:

http://e2-productions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3

Comment. (Appreciate if you comment on the forums more than commenting here, but if you really love the updates feel free to comment here too)

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Almost!

Dion Moult — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:01:37 +0000

Well, 8 more exams. Two more weeks. Then bam on the 16th of June comes Mr. Update and his big bag of goodies! I cannot wait! I just started gathering items for my portfolio, and right now I have 10 webdesigns, and 2 artwork. This is not including the 100+ archived pictures I have for the progress of ThoughtScore, my NGT archives, my animations, traditional art, photos….and the list goes on! At this rate we’ll have a new update for every day of the year!

And Yes, I am actually working on stuff! Here’s a small screenie of my Vim window that I leave on Desktop 3.

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Schedule Up

Dion Moult — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:11:00 +0000

We’ve got a schedule up for viewing for what’s going to happen to E2 and what releases you should be expecting for after my exams. Ok, back to work for me now.

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kthxbai

Dion Moult — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Exams coming up not that much time for updates not even blog posts so they’ll be short and rare until the upcoming 16th of June 2008 see e2-productions.com for more details! kthxbai.

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Registration open.

Dion Moult — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:37:00 +0000

Useful information stuff:
Attempting 220-601 as well as 70-291 becomes easier for the students who have done their 646-204 and 70-649 and are preparing for their 70-620 or 642-901.

Enjoy :) – Comments welcome on how you like the system.

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I promised you an update:

Dion Moult — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:11:00 +0000

So, firstly, you can now visit http://e2-productions.com/ and see the awesome new work-in-progress. So far all that is up is a very simple website layout, a home page with some brief information, and a resources page. Upcoming soon in the world of Moult will be some awesome updates to Cobramilk.com, including a special edit in their voting system, a members module to allow you to register an e2-productions.com account, and a whole stack of documentation. I’m going to be going to Penang from tomorrow until Thursday, so I’ll be out of action. However, I’m showing you some pictures to keep you happy knowing that I’m actually doing stuff.Doesn’t he look cool, just like a grumpy, cranky, eccentric weird guy? (unfinished)
…and we’ve also got a little get-together with the Earth and my Space station:
Sorry for the small size, they’re only meant to be previews. When I feel like it I’ll post a much bigger update in the official ThoughtScore work-in-progress thread on BA.

Looking forward to your comments! Always remember you can catch me on the IRC server irc.freenode.net on the #e2-productions channel!

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