I was terribly anxious for the inaugural MODxpo event in Dallas. I had not given a presentation in front of anyone since 2000, when I was a Knowledge Management Analyst for an Enterprise Portal startup called Viador. Back then I did training sessions for the Technical Field Agents, and I remember how much I hated giving presentations. In fact, I think that's why I quit that job, because they had just informed me that would be my full time gig. But I digress.
Despite the anxiety, I was the one who needed to present xPDO, so I was going and I was presenting. Now, to even get to Dallas, I had to travel 11 hours from my home in Taos, New Mexico. I only recently moved to the Taos area, and my knowledge of the roads is, well, inadequate at best. And combined with Google Maps, life threatening at worst, as I found out Sunday morning shortly after 6am.
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MODx Revolution is a content management platform that I have been developing with Shaun McCormick, the MODx core team, and the MODx community for the past few years. It is now in Release Candidate phase and I have finally found a few moments to convert my personal site to this new platform.
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MODx Evolution's Snippet Parameters were reinvented in Revolution as Element Properties: any Element can now have them, not just Snippets. And in addition, Property Sets. Groups of properties that any number of Elements can share, in a variety of ways. Cool, huh!?
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Shaun and I are working hard to complete 2.0.0-RC2, making key optimizations and taking care of as many loose ends as possible. Everyone that is interested, please get involved; test, use, and create with RC1 (or the latest in SVN). The more feedback we get, the better chance we'll have of making this our last Release Candidate.
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