Chromium Blog is released under
the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Published: 2006-12-12
Document Version: 1.2
The Chromium project is an Open-Source Blog/CMS being
developed for the ASP.NET platform in C#. Chromium will be a
data-driven
system which will make use of some of the newest and most exciting
Web 2.0 technologies and put them to use in a system which is easy and
fast to install and
configure.
Chromium, though based on a proprietary
technology in Microsoft's .NET
framework and not a true open-source capability like
PHP, will make use of, and
demonstrate some of the capabilities available in the
new free developer tools that
have been made available by Microsoft. Admitedly
these are not open-source
tools, but they provide more flexibility to hobbyist and
enthusiast developers than
ever before, and at no cost to them.
With the advent of the Express editions of the Microsoft Development
suite, it will be easier than ever for tools and applications to be
developed using this technology, and Chromium hopes to serve as an
example of this.
Though there has been many delays I'm hoping that we're going to get
this rolling over the next few weeks, and have something more concrete
of a download ready early in 2007.
- Installation Wizard -- Including DB
setup
- WYSIWYG Editor
- Multiple blog support
- Web-Based admin console
- Support for comments
- Support for trackbacks
- Support for .NET Master Pages & Skins
- Search Engine Safe (SES) permalink URLs
- XML/RSS Syndication
- Post by Email
- Images in Blogs
- File Repository
- Advanced Archiving
- Communal Bookmarking Integration
The initial releases
will target MS-Windows environments
running version 2.0+ of the .NET framework and capable of supporting a
SQL
Server type database (MSDE, SQL Server Express etc) or a MySQL
database.
Future plans do include support for Linux
environments with Apache 2.0+ and the Mono add-on -- but this is a
longer-term plan.
-
Programming Languages: C# (2.0), ASP.NET
(2.0)
- Web Platform: IIS, Apache w/ Mono support
- Target OS: Windows Pro (2000+), Windows
Server (2000+), Linux
- Supported Databases: MS SQL Server,
MySQL
Here are the proposed tables for the system. At some
point, a more detailed
layout including field lists will be made available.
For now, a list of the
applicable tables and a brief description of their
function.
- CR_Users - User table will contain all
the registered users, and
will also contain permission information for
administrative privileges etc.
- CR_UserGroups - Will contain the data
& metadata for individual
groups
- CR_GroupMembers - Will contain the user
: group mappings
- CR_PermissionList - Lists all of the
various permission classes
for the system
- CR_GroupPermissions - Maps permissions
to specific groups.
- CR_UserPermissions - Maps permissions
to specific users.
Will override group permissions.
- CR_Posts - Table will contain the data
and metadata for each post
or news entry. The posts & comments will be
stored in raw XHTML, but will
be filtered by a server-side call before posting to the
database. This will
allow the administrator to allow/deny content on a
tag-by-tag basis keeping the
system secure, but extensible.
- CR_PostTypes - Table will contain the
metadata for the different
types of posts. Keeping this separate allows for
easy extensibility
- CR_Comments - Will contain the comments
made to each post or news
entry
- CR_Categories - Table will contain
categories for the posts or
news entries
- CR_Links - Links to be displayed on the
site's pages
- CR_LinkCategories - Category metadata
for the links
Here are a list of the components and tools that
have been identified as pieces
to the Chromium puzzle. All components listed here are
either freely available
at no charge, are open-source projects, or have explicit
permission from the author(s).