Which .NET and PHP CMSs are able to run on Rackspace Cloud CloudSites (formerly Mosso)? - rackspace

I have scoured the internet to find which CMS's run on CloudSites and the only definitive information I have found is on RackspaceClouds knowledge base
http://help.rackspacecloud.com/article.php?id=383
Only BlogEngine, DotNetNuke & AspDotNetStoreFront are listed.
Does anyone know of any others?

Drupal runs on there OK

I know this is an older post, but wanted to give an update on this and provide some updated information. The below link has articles for installing the popular Content Management Systems i.e. Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and more.
CMS Install Articles
You can also visit Rackspace Knowledge Base for more information to any questions that might come up for Cloud Sites as well.

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How to insert coding and Maths formula into database

I am working on a project which contains the question with options and solution of that question. I want to display the Mats equations and some coding questions on webpage. So my query is what will the the procedure to insert those equation into Database and display it on my webpage.
for the reference I want to display like this following link :
http://www.indiabix.com/aptitude/compound-interest/
http://www.indiabix.com/c-programming/functions/
Thanks
Frankly speaking as far as I understood your problem you do not have Idea about coding (I may be wrong but as you are not suggesting any particular database and any technical stuff I'm assuming this.)
You can use prebuilt frameworks for this job you don't need to design application from scratch unless it is your some project.
Some suggested Links are this ...
Moodle
WordPress
You need to find plugin after installing these frameworks on your webserver bundle
For that you can use
WAMP on windows or LAMP if on Linux
But Again your question too general. Give some inputs first
Information About Moodle:
IF you go throught moodle webiste you will get to know that how powerful LMS( learning management system ).
You just need to know how to configure such websites
Go through this video tutorials if you want to
Infromation About WordPress:
Wordpress is general purpose Website so you can develop any service with it very easily and everything including database is taken care by it (same case with moodle but moodle is more focused on LMS )
You have to search for LMS plugin inside wordpress for your purpose.
KINDLY ACCEPT THIS ONE AS ANsWER if you find information usefule... (Points help me contribute more and allows me also to ask question)

Sitecore more for corporate users? [closed]

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First, I've looked at every other stack site and I can't seem to find an very appropriate place to ask this. It's a pretty general questions, but basically, I'm wondering if Sitecore is targeted mainly at corporate users?
I've done a bit with Drupal and because it's open source of course you can install it on any shared host (at least LAMP but I guess Windows as well). I can't seem to find a lot of sites that advertize hosting for Sitecore other than the limited number on the SiteCore hosting site.
The only ones I see prices for tend to be WAY more than what you get from a shared host. IE, $100+ per month vs. ~$10-20 for your typical LAMP Shared host.
I'm about to get some Sitecore work at my company, and wondering if I'm going to be able to do any playing on my own with Sitecore outside of work, but it seems this is something you don't play with unless you have an actual license and host, unless there's some test environment one can set up on your local box, or is this not feasible?
As you can see, these are fairly basic questions, but I could not find good immediate answers to them while searching, so any good basic primer or info would be great!
Sitecore is an enterprise level web content management system (or Customer Engagement Platform as they call it).
The license fees vary per country and setup, but start at around $20k.
If you want to play with Sitecore as a developer, you can ask them for the Sitecore Xpress edition.
It's a free, limited release for developers.
You need to contact Sitecore and they will give it to you.
For non-commercial use you can use Sitecore Express. You'll have to contact Sitecore to get this.
This is a scaled back version though.
From their site:
Xpress is a version of Sitecore’s CMS that has been seriously scaled
back, but is ideal for developers wanting a no cost version and are OK
with the restrictions. While the enterprise scalability and
performance power has been pulled out, as well as the business
user/marketing capabilities, the developer flexibility remains.
I don't know about the cost of hosting it.
As the others have mentioned, there are ways to get the software without a license, but traditionally developers work with this with a license.
At that point, you do not need to worry about hosting, as long as you can run a .NET web application on your machine. Sitecore runs in IIS with SQL Server or Oracle databases. This allows you to do all your development and playing around on your local machine without needing to have it hosted.
In my experience, your best bet for short term hosting of Sitecore is a service like Amazon EC2. A service like this gives to access to remote server space where you can install Sitecore and all the extras you may need.
This sounds like a good fit in your case since you can start and stop the service whenever you need. This will allow you to play around with Sitecore without a large upfront investment. Also, you can always start up a new server instance whenever you need an outward facing site to show clients.

DotNetNuke VS Drupal 7?

I am planning to build a website for courses online, teachers can create their courses and put their exams, students can enroll, view courses and apply for exams ..
I am a bit confused, to build it with DDN or Drupal ? which is easier and more powerful ?
I have no problem with .NET C# or PHP, although I see C# more easy to code with,
what I need to know, which CMS is better for my case ?
Which CMS is more robust & complete ?
Thanks in advance.
Of course, either platform has its pros and cons. What you're looking at building is essentially a Learning Management System, or LMS. There are a few existing LMS solutions built specifically for DotNetNuke. They include Engage: Campus, NetLearn, and Accord.
I would tell you to go with which ever platform offers you the most features for managing this kind of content for the best return on your investment, and offers you the best comfort level. If you're familiar with .Net and are comfortable in that arena, then stick with DotNetNuke. Otherwise go with another platform. However, having nearly 8 years of experience in developing solutions with DotNetNuke, and 13+ overall in developing software solutions (including PHP-based ones), if I have a choice, I always go with DotNetNuke. (And not just because I am an employee for a year now.)
I find that DotNetNuke has the most stable builds and releases overall. It's security team and features are second to none. It's community and ecosystem is unrivaled. If you're looking for a pre-built solution for any kind of business problem, chances are that the 10,000+ extensions in the Store or Forge will get you up and running with less development time and less expense. The forge has free (open source) extensions, and the median price of a store extension is $89 (LMS's are quite more expensive though).
The eco-system also boasts over 800 known ISV's out there. So chances are, if you're looking for support, not only is there an official company to provide it and back you up when something goes wrong, there are numerous other options out there in terms of companies that specialize in DotNetNuke.
One last thing on the releases... DotNetNuke has a known roadmap, a frequent release cycle, and an outstanding reputation for backwards compatibility. Your extensions will continue to work on the platform as you upgrade to take advantage of the latest and greatest features added to the platform, usability updates, bug fixes, and security updates.
As a Sales Engineer at DNN Corp, I hear all kinds of use cases, and I see DotNetNuke used a lot in educational institutions. They all use it to varying degrees as not only a CMS, but also a LMS, social platform (even in schools), and more. Most schools are also standardized in some way on the Microsoft stack too, so integration is much more straight-forward using DotNetNuke.
I could go on, but this is as much time as I have to give you an informed response.
Based on what you are trying to build DotNetNuke will only really give you authentication and basic page creation out of the box. All those other elements will have to be custom coded in .NET.
If you use Drupal 7 you can build majority of that using CCK, Views and workflow without really having to do a ton of programming if you don't want to.
I have been doing DotNetNuke since 2003 and have developed tons of modules for it, including some publicly available at www.dnnspot.com
If I was in your shoes I would do Drupal, but I know both pretty well.
ACTUALLY - If 'I' was in your shoes I would do Ruby on Rails now ;) but ... Drupal would work pretty well and you could get alot if not all of this done without slinging much code. Drupal is crazy.
DNN is now built on C# but has always been on .NET. I'm in a similar position as I code in PHP and .NET and have used Drupal and have been working on DNN for the last 4 years. I find that Module Development in DNN is wonderful.
i hope that helps.
Full featured Learning Management Systems (LMS) require substantial development (man decades), especially if you want to support SCORM eLearning content. Both DNN and Drupal will offer you most of the add on functionality that you will need in addition to the LMS features - the ability to build web pages, rich text editors, etc.
I would evaluate the different the LMS available for each platform and make your choice based on how robust the LMS are. In addition, evaluate how easily the LMS integrates with add on modules such as forums, wikis, etc. Most of our clients select our LMS without any knowledge of the portal framework beneath it.
Based on these evaluation metrics I am confident that you will find the Interzoic Accord LMS running on DNN to be a superior choice.
Chris

Dot Net Nuke 5.0 - Good pages with lots of examples of each modules

I am new to DotNetNuke 5.0 and want to find a good website with obvious examples of each of the standard modules and how to configure them. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I can suggest that you spend some time on the dotnetnuke site itself, including the forumns, also do take a good luck are dnncreative magazine site, it is excellent. The main bloggers on the dnn site also have excellent personal sites, no point in listing them here, just review the bloggers and you will find loads of info on their site.
Finally, the best and easiest way to learn DNN is to play with it yourself. Get your PC set up so that you aren trash and re-install in 5 minutes and the play with it, experiment with downloading and installing from free modules and read, read read. There is lots of info available and you just have to google and you will find.
Start and www.dotnetnuke.com and enjoy, I love it,
Mark Breen
Ireland

What database options do I have for the Blackberry?

I notice most of the discussions about Blackberry database options are old, and generally not too informative.
As of today, March 31st, 2010, what is the best, most universally supported, free database option available for Blackberry developers?
I heard SQLite is available for JDE v5, but last I checked, that was still in beta, and I didn't want to commit to developing on a system that is not supported by most of the phones in service.
Thing is, I don't see any dates on these claims. For all I know, the announcements I am reading are from 2008.
So, I am still on v 4.7. I need to use a relational DB for the app I am developing, but there aren't many resources for DB handling available - or at least resources that are useful to me. I find a lot of "tutorials" that assume you know everything there is to know about Blackberry development, or Java. But no complete classes or anything. Many of these examples don't even work. Eclipse gives warnings and errors from code copied and pasted from other people's examples.
I can answer any questions that may assist in this case. Hopefully, this thread will help many BB developers in the future.
Before v5 I don't think there is a native relational database that you can work with on the Blackberry, the closest thing is the Persistant Store API, however I think that there are 3rd party libraries that you can use, like SQL Anywhere.
Depending on the Java dialect supported on your Blackberry version, db4o could also work well for your usecase. It's an object database, quite similar to Perst.
Ok, in case anyone has had similar experiences with this, here is what I have done:
The JAR class path thing was resolved through no help at all from these sites.
What I did to get an outside JAR included in my package was to right click the package name in the navigation menu (Eclipse) - then select Build Path - then add libraries.
From this I was able to modify an existing library to include the JAR for the perst package.
Now I am able to import org.garret.perst.*
We'll see if there are any complications.
Forgive the number of posts, maybe it will help someone else down the way.

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