July 2011
2 posts
Meet us on IRC !
Great news! So many of you have been looking to connect in real time with the Locomotive team and community, we really wanted to create a centralized place for it. So, now we have the official IRC channel #locomotivecms at irc.freenode.net! Here’s a link to chat right now: http://webchat.freenode.net/ We’ll generally have someone in there to answer questions, and we encourage you to...
Jul 22nd
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Changelog #1
Here is a pretty exhaustive list of what the BIG MERGE includes: upgrade the list of gems: Rails 3.0.9, Devise 1.3.4, Rake 0.9.2, …etc  roles with the CanCan gem note: 3 kind of roles. Administrator (they can do everything), Designer (like Administrator but applied on a single website), Author (only edit pages and contents)  resizing images on the fly (ticket #79) tinyMCE enhancements...
Jul 19th
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May 2011
1 post
Introducing our modules platform
LocomotiveCMS is a very young open source project but it gets more and more users each week. More users also means that we have to deal with more work like answering questions, look into feature requests, fixing bugs of course, …etc. That’s the price of fame !  Unfortunately, all of these tasks take a lot of time. At the end, we spend more time on LocomotiveCMS than on our other...
May 4th
March 2011
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Locomotive status
First of all, I would to thank all of you who sent us very kind and encouraging messages, helped us to fix issues (a lot, let’s face the truth !) or developed new features. Actually, we were not expecting such a positive wave. For instance, the Locomotive back-office has been translated in German (thanks Bernd !), French and Brazilian Portuguese (thanks Raphael !). Believe me,...
Mar 16th
January 2011
1 post
Beta release out
Hi folks,  It’s been a long road to launch this beta. That was really tough to stop adding new features and to be focus to release something. Yes, I had to struggle against my nature but I managed at the end ! I spent a lot of time writing a good installation guide, especially for the Heroku part. I hope it is clear enough. If it is not, feel free to send me your suggestions at...
Jan 4th
October 2010
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Big thanks to Nicholas Young !
I’d like to thank Nicholas Young who gives us the domain name locomotivecms.com. We didn’t ask for anything, he just sent us an email and told us he wanted to help the project.  That’s very kind to him.
Oct 19th
August 2010
2 posts
A fresh coat of paint
When Didier first approached me to work on a user interface for Locomotive, his content management system (at the time still called NoCoffeeCMS), I thought it was a great opportunity to finally design my ideal CMS interface. I’ve worked with Joomla, Wordpress, Textpattern, and Expression Engine, and none of them had that perfect mix of features, flexibility, and good design (although Wordpress and...
Aug 2nd
Jacques Crocker got on board !
We are exciting to announce you that Jacques (aka Railsjedi in the Ruby on Rails community) joined us two weeks ago on Locomotive. He is a great developer and has a clear vision about how has to be managed an open source project. Want a proof ? Look at his amazing job on Mongoid ! The big first feature he is going to work on is the inline editing. But for now, his job is to clean the...
Aug 2nd
July 2010
2 posts
Jul 9th
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A new Rails CMS on board !
At last, I launched it, thanks to Sacha’s help ! Of course, it is not as perfect as I wish. But, I think it represents a good start and I have a ton of new features to add. There are so many things to say about the CMS and how I see its future… The documentation section looks empty but do not worry, I’m working hard on it. “First come, first serve”. My CMS has...
Jul 9th