Calendars serve to illustrate the basic usage and the real time nature of eZ Publish.
When somebody calls in to schedule a resource, locate the calendar for the resource, create a new event, the calendar updates immediately for all to see.
1. If not already logged in, log in and browse to the resource, the "Snaggin" calendar in this case.
Login and browse to location of new content creation
2. Article is the default content creation type in the drop down selector, drop it down, select "Event"
Select Content Type to Create Here
3. With the "Event" content type displayed in the content type selector, click the "Plus" icon to create new content.
Clicking a Plus icon Creates New Content
4. Adding an "Event" content type entails filling in information specific to an "Event", like dates and times.
Content fields are specific to type of Content to create
5. Click "Send for Publishing" button and resource is sheduled, visible for all to see in real time.
Click Send For Publishing To Commit the Resource
6. As people call in, schedule the resource. Simple and real-time, minimizes effort, prevents confusion and double-booking.
April is Booking Fast
7. More powerful calendaring is available for those with Snow Leopard Server via Wiki style collaboration. Click the image for more details.
Another Powerful Option for Resource Scheduling on Snow Leopard Server
Filed under random thoughts.
Organizations strike gold when they serving 90 percent of people in a given market, with 100 percent of what they actually need.
Easiest to sneak in there when the 90 percent do not even understand the core functionality, or that they need it. Best to be sure dedicated newbies can pick it up and use it over a long week-end. Be sure everyone in the target group can easily afford the price of admission.
- DOS
- Apache
- MySQL
- PHP
- iTunes and iPod
- Apple iPad
Then be willing to say this is it.
While continuously improving, incrementally, regularly, in ways that the vast majority of users understand, so they do not get lost. (Vista, too long, not incremental).
Besides that, an idea only has to survive long enough in the target market to make enough connections while people adapt to change. People are extraordinarily resistant to change, so that will not be overnight. The more complex, the more time required.
Except for the iPad. Relative to any of the rest, it is a true overnight sensation. All it required was a few years and tens of millions of satisfied iPhone and Touch users to seed the market. Stark simplicity in a field dominated by complexity didn't hurt.
Generally, the more parameters involved, the more complex the design, the longer time to market domination or the more impossible to dominate.
DOS, twitter, Google, almost instant market domination. Very simple, yet great ideas that few initially understood.
Apache started out with 100 percent market domination and 100 percent of the mindset, so they had nowhere to go but down.
Not sure where that leaves PHP and MySQL.
PHP was easy for a dedicated hobbyist programmer to pick up over a long weekend and hack something together. The popular alternative of the day, perl was relatively incomprehensible as was the code it generated.
MySQL was both easy and cheap. Likely that is why it did not take it long to dominate a market ruled by costly and complex.
Next up in user level operating systems, OS X orUbuntu? Much more likely it will be ios and Android. Easy, cheap, do 100 percent of what 90 percent need.
For small business server systems, OS X on the Mini Server is perfectly positioned, easy, cheap, 100 percent for 90 percent.
Content management on the Web, eZ Publish, easy, cheap, 100 percent for 90 percent. After install and setup that is. Then anyone can use it. Importantly, if everyday users with a little web development experience want to get in and tweak, they can find their "tweak point" and attack it over a long weekend.
Now I understand why I like the iPad, the Mini Server, and eZ Publish so well! They embody the future of technology. The three together are practically a self-sufficient technology ecosystem, that is oh so simple to setup and use, yet can be tweaked to easily serve 100 percent of the info tech needs for 90 percent of the users.
Google translate for fast simple Web page translations -- http://translate.google.com/
In this case, an Apple-eZ Publish conference in Norway.
Before..
Apple and eZ Publish in Norway
After plugging the url into google translate..
Apple and eZ Publish in Norway - English Translation
Just that simple.
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US Government Language Courses in the Public Domain -- http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php