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Sites using bytespring CMS

Just testing out http://www.searchme.com/ and I thought I'd try a search for bytespring... Besides being a cool new search interface, it turned up a heap of sites I wasn't aware of that are using Bytespring CMS. Here's a list of the ones I found.

http://anglicantv.org/
http://www.gonz.net.nz/
http://www.ulseth.no/
http://www.bestwode.org/
http://www.tagit.co.nz/
http://www.cvalleycorvettes.com/
http://caralarm.co.nz/
http://www.ekk.org/

I thought it was worth making a note of them here for future reference... For anyone else that's using it, please feel free to leave a note in the comments. :)

 

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Yeah someone should write a Firefox plugin that makes the same thing happen in Google.
# Posted By Sean Bannister | 9/3/08 12:59 AM
Hey Jason. Way cool to find those hidden gems. I'm not sure why it seems so difficult to get people to admit they're using some open source project... maybe it has something to do with corporate cultures and the fear that a boss might not approve of a public announcement... At any rate, it's always cool to find out that folks are using something you've contributed to. A few years ago I gave a presentation to the Austin TX CFUG and met a guy there working for the city or maybe the state who said he recognized some of the code in my presentation from an application they had in the office, but never knew where it had come from until I presented. :P
# Posted By ike | 9/15/08 6:13 PM
Hi Ike, yeah .. it's good to see your stuff being used. ;)
# Posted By Jason | 9/15/08 6:52 PM
Jason,

I am anglicantv.org, ekk.org, cvalleycorvettes.org, and now anglicansunited.com. I love your open source platform and it works perfectly for my (we just need a presence) customers. you missed the best one imtiusa.com that I setup last month.

I would move about 40 more projects over to bytespring, but I need to have different user levels. admin, editor, etc. Do you plan to do this in the future?
# Posted By kevin kalsen | 10/28/08 10:24 AM
Hi Kevin,
internally the system has support for role based permissions, but because it's so simple, there's not really too much you'd need to split up in the existing feature set. The idea was that it would enable developers to extend it with additional functionality and use the permissions system for that if needed. Feel free to dig into it and let me know if you have any questions.

- Jason
# Posted By jason | 10/31/08 7:49 AM
Hey Jason, just thought I'd drop you a brief note to let you know that I'm thinking about creating a ByteSpring plugin for the onTap framework. I'd love if you maintained the code ultimately, but of course I won't make any demands. :) Thanks for taking the time to publish and maintain BS (which I think has the best acronym of all the CF CMS projects). ;)
# Posted By ike | 11/25/08 10:43 AM
Hi Ike,
sorry i haven't had a chance to check out onTap .. I haven't been doing much CF work over the past year or so .. mainly flex / java stuff at the moment. Whatever it is you do with "BS", I'd be keen to have look at it once you're done. Not really sure what you mean by plugin ???
# Posted By jason | 11/25/08 6:38 PM
Thanks Jason. Re: what's a plugin? That's a good question. :) I think all the popular frameworks for CF include some architecture they refer to as "plugins", at least I know ColdBox, Fusebox and Mach-II all do. But they generally mean something a bit different than what is meant in the context of the onTap framework. There are a few paragraphs about the difference (not long) on the wiki here: http://ontap.wikispaces.com/Plugins+Guide
# Posted By ike | 11/26/08 5:28 AM