How BP Handles a Coffee Spill

Simulating how BP handled it's oil spill on a smaller scale scenario ... a coffee spill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM&feature=fvhr

Disclaimer: If you didn't follow the news then you wont get it.

A good Drupal alternative?

Frankly, I'm quite fedup with Drupal.

My plan is to find an alternative. And here's my research findings.


I bumped into the following excellent CMSs that I would like to try out:


1. Concrete 5 http://www.concrete5.org/ (PHP using Zend Framework)
2. BrowserCMS http://www.browsercms.org/ (Ruby on Rails)
3. Silver Stripe http://www.silverstripe.org/silverstripe-cms/ (PHP using Sapphire)
4. modx http://modxcms.com/download/ (PHP)
5. Frog CMS http://www.madebyfrog.com/ (PHP)
6. MiaCMS http://miacms.org/
7. CMS Made Simple http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/
8. TextPattern http://textpattern.com/
9. ImpressCMS http://www.impresscms.org/


Well, I think all of them are excellent. I really likes the Concrete 5 video preview though.


Also have a look at this top chart:
http://amplicate.com/rankings/475-top-ten-content-management-systems-cms/

In search for a User, Group, Role & Security Java Library

I've been longing for a Java library that would cover all the needs of authorization and authentication within an application in a sensible manner. The library shouldn't require huge EJB structures and should allow being used within a POJO context.

I've searched and found three useful libraries:

1. Apache Ki http://incubator.apache.org/ki/

2. java.security http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/security/

3. Spring Security http://www.acegisecurity.org/

The one that drives my curiosity the most is Apache Ki. Seems very promising.