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Yesterday the Habari folks released the second developer release. So I downloaded it and set it up on my localhost.

One of the things that really bothers me about WordPress is polls. Now there are a couple of really good poll plugins for WordPress, but if you want to make the poll as part of the blog hierarchy, as part of the normal chronology of the site, you have to create the poll in one screen then add the tags to your post. Not really a friendly way to go.

In Drupal, you create the poll, and if you have the polls content type set to appear on the front page, it'll be there after you submit it.

Follow the conversation on Habari Dev's Google Groups.

Here's the reason I feel that Habari should be using categories in addition to tags:

Structure.

Categories, as archaic as some may think they are, are useful in giving sites a basic structure to build on, to navigate by, and to design around. And, I believe most importantly, gives users the ability to extend Habari better than with tags alone.

So you've created a content management system or script. You've spent countless hours drinking warm beer and eating cold pizza while coding your content management system and now you're ready to unleash it to the world. The thousands and thousand of lines of code that you and your friends have sweated and swore over is done. So what do you do now?

You may have heard about the goPHP5 website, which is an organization that wanted to get web hosts and open source projects to phase out PHP4 (what many hosts use by default now) and focus on PHP5. (Since the project started, PHP.net announced that it focus would be on PHP5 at the end of the year, with only security updates to PHP4 after that time.

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com.

I guess it's that time again! Nominations are open until August 31st and systems can be nominated in the following categories:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS

A genealogy content management system? Seriously? For those who are into this...

PHPGedView:

As a moderator at OpenSourceCMS.com I read a lot of messages that ask which content management system a particular site uses. As I look into the answer, I find myself doing the same things over and over. And that's what this post is about. I'll detail for you what I do when I want to find out what a particular site uses.

With Google, you can do most anything computer related. You can get your email and write love poems; you can search the web, you can search your computer. You can look at your house, find a bar in the seedy part of town, and compose spreadsheets, all at the same time. You can build web pages (although I think their blogging mechanism sucks.) There's really not a lot of computer activities you can't do with Google.

So if Google ever decides to build a robot, my money is on the robot taking over the world.

bbPress finally gets children forums.

Forums can now be grouped hierarchically (that is, forums can have “children”). To organize your forums, go to Content -> Forums in your bbPress’ admin panels, click “Edit Forum Order” and drag the rows around: up, down, left and right.