As I’m new in Radiant I will not explain every thing I don’t know about it, only the few first steps to create your pages. If you want more information please refer to the links at the bottom of the page.

please follow the guide

I use Typo for my blog for some month now and before for other blogs. For its purpose of blogging it is a good tool, and written with Rails :). As Mephisto I think both inherit of the Rails’ fashion. The past week I tried to implement inside Typo a small poll system I have developed in standalone application. I really got surprised by the complexity of Typo, and the lack of interface for extension, then I tried quickly its brother and it was maybe better, but so complex. We are far from the 20’ blog’s demo. These two blogs are made by great people knowing very well Rails then I guess the code is good and can handle every situation, but can’t we do simpler ?

Radiant 0.6.0

Radiant 0.6.0 is going out today. Don’t look at the version number (last stable was 0.5.2), this new version is a big change. I have tried it before but was not happy with the behavior system. Why add another concept to MVC? Why the basic content should be a page?

In this new version the concept of behavior disappears, I let you check on the website what is different. “Instead” there is a great extension system. You have an interface between radiant and extension to declare it (that is IMO a minimum to make a good system) and then you can access the Radiant API to easily extend it, by example, add a new tab in admin interface (try this in Typo ;) ).

I like:

• a clear and simple coding
• a neat admin interface
• a great extension system!

I don’t like:

• the concept of Page, website is not only pages but many kind of contents as files, folders (or node). Even if extensions bring Assets, the top class should be Content instead of Page.
• the single level of snippets and layouts (only to complain about something :p)

Link

• RadiantCMS website

Yet another Google tool

I’ve just discovered about the notebook tool in google. Why I didn’t know this earlier? it’s exactly what I need to grab and store information from Internet, with the firefox extension you can clip, comment what ever page you want. I know about Clip it! or other page grabber but this one is just simple, and well integrated.

A very good tool to share your clips from a computer to another, try it !

google notebook

To celebrate my new poll sidebar, I would like to ask everybody which authentication system do you use for your projects?

Please feel free to comment your answer :)

survey on the right side =>