Wordpress in the Enterprise

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 08:05 Written by webguyatwork Tuesday, 24 February 2009 08:05

I downloaded Wordpress 2.7.1 today at work with the intention of using it as a collaborative tool for my team to track development plan items for discussion. We have our own renegade web server with a LAMP stack installed, so it only took me about 5 minutes to put the whole thing together. Wordpress is so stinking simple to install as long as you have easy access to your database.

So by the end of the day, I had a running copy working on our production portal and had user accounts assigned to the 5 of my team members along with a welcome post to kick off the conversation. I’ll update you later as to the success of this experiment. I have a feeling it will go over pretty well since the team is pretty tech savvy and really strive to get more Web 2.0 tools into the company.

We are also toying around with the notion of building a wiki to store all of our documents and processes. TWiki and MediaWiki are the two that we’re working with at the moment. Are there any others that we should be considering? Since we’re a small group, just about any tool will be easy for us to install. I’m interested in your feedback, so let me know your results from testing both blogs and wikis in the enterprise.

Dan’s Guardian Web Content Filtering

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2009 09:53 Written by webguyatwork Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:24

I’m currently working on a project to implement a LAMP stack of functions for the purpose of automatically configuring Dan’s Guardian, a web content filtering application from www.dansguardian.org.  The software itself is open source, which comes with a perfect price tag (FREE!!!), but you have to compile it yourself.  After messing with it for a good couple of hours, I finally found a version from 2007 that would compile without errors.  If you have more time on your hands, you may want to try compiling a newer version.  And if you get it to work, please let me know the secret.