Dario Borghino

Dario Borghino

Dario Borghino is a computer engineering student at Turin's Polytechnic, Italy. He started writing science and technology related articles in February 2008 and his articles have appeared on sites such as ISEdb.COM, eHow and Suite101.com. You can visit his personal Web site here.
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Drupal Fixes a Few Bugs

December 17th, 2008 | in CMS News, Drupal | No Comments

After announcing a “feature freeze” for their 5.x and 6.x versions while the team is working on the next major release, Drupal 7.x, several bug fixes have just been released for current versions of the software to address several security issues in the platform.
The new versions, Drupal 5.13 and 6.7, correct cross site forgery and [...]

Microsoft Unveils an Open Source CMS

December 17th, 2008 | in CMS News | No Comments

Microsoft recently unveiled Oxite, an open source blogging platform built on the new ASP.NET MVC framework that, according to the company, is however also able to host large websites as well.
The new CMS is a product that aims at competing with the industry leader WordPress, and represents an unexpected addition to SharePoint, the company’s own [...]

WordPress Chitika Ads Plugin Released

December 8th, 2008 | in Plugins, WordPress | No Comments

Web advertising company Chitika recently released a WordPress plugin, named “Chitika|Premium”, to make it even easier for webmasters to publish their ads on their blogs.
The startup company — whose name, according to their website, comes from the Telugu language and means “snap of the fingers”, referring to the speed at which webmasters would be able [...]

WordPress 2.7 Is Due to Be Released Today

December 4th, 2008 | in CMS News, WordPress | No Comments

After an almost one-month delay, the next version of WordPress has finally graduated from beta stage and will be available to download later today, as announced by Jane Wells from the WP team in a recent blog post on the WordPress.com website.
According to Wells, the much anticipated new version of the best known content management [...]

Expression Engine Announces Three Class Scholarships

December 1st, 2008 | in CMS News, Expression Engine | 1 Comment

In a blog post published just a few days ago Leslie Camacho, EllisLab VP, announced that thanks to the contribution of several sponsors the company will be able to offer three scholarships for its “Southern Fried ExpressionEngine” trainee class.
The class will take place from January 20-23 in San Antonio, Texas and will be lead by [...]

WordPress “Project Icon” Competition Announces Its Winners

December 1st, 2008 | in CMS News, WordPress | No Comments

In a recent post appeared on the WordPress.org Official Blog, the developer team announced the winner of the “Project Icon” competition to decide which set of icons will be featured in the menu of the upcoming 2.7 version of the software.
As revealed in an announcement on October 22nd, the menu icons that were being used [...]

WordPress Fixes XSS Vulnerability

December 1st, 2008 | in CMS News, WordPress | No Comments

Yesterday, WordPress released yet another update to its platform in order to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
As explained by the WP team its most recent blog post, the bug only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x versions: in those setups, it might be possible for hackers to affect systems so that they [...]

Why ExpressionEngine 2.0 is Being Delayed

December 1st, 2008 | in CMS News, Expression Engine | No Comments

A lengthy post on ExpressionEngine’s official blog explains the reason why the much-awaited version 2.0 of the platform, which should bring relevant architectural changes and provide the foundation for several years of development, has been delayed for several months in a row and is currently quite far from being completed.
Derek Jones, Chief Technology Officer for [...]

Tool Review: Tell-A-Friend from SocialTwist

November 21st, 2008 | in CMS News | No Comments

Internet company SocialTwist recently released “Tell-a-Friend”, a useful tool to share hot news, deals and other bits of information with your friends over instant messenger, email, blogs and social networks, all from a unified interface. While there already is a number of similar tools that get the job done, Tell-a-Friend is notable for both ease [...]