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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; CMS Software</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</description>
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		<title>Top 10 Popular Free Drupal themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you dare to look beyond the Wordpress themes, there is a good option in Drupal. Whether for business, travel, magazine or any other website, Drupal has an assortment of themes. More so Drupal.org after official redesigning has encouraged theme designers to create exciting drupal designs. Still it's no easy to find an ideal theme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-popular-free-drupal-themes/</link>
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		<title>Review: Doox CMS, an Open Source Content Management System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DooxCMS 3.0 is a flexible Web 2.0 Content Management System which was built with PHP Script and Ajax framework.  It can be used to create from simple website  to large corporate website. Installation was simple. The software has built-in SEO optimization to help your website rank better. Read the full review in Enterprise Blog.

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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/review-doox-cms-an-open-source-content-management-system/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Scaling &amp; Performance - A Picture Which Speaks Thousand Words and More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone and their dog talks about WordPress performance these days and also tells you how to scale WordPress (Read: How to really scale WordPress). When I grew up in Kharagpur (yes, the same Kharagpur which has the top IIT and yes I did my B.Tech there) everyone knew how to cure diabetes - you have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-scaling-performance-a-picture-which-speaks-thousand-words-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Top 15 Free Joomla Templates To Give Your Website a New Look in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joomla is a very popular open source content management system. It enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla one of the most popular Web site software available at present. Despite talking much about the CMS and ECMs, we haven't touched the beauty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-15-free-joomla-templates-to-give-your-website-a-new-look-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>MODx 0.9.6.3 Open Source Content Management System - A Detailed Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework with powerful features that help you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores. For example, it gives you a true system for registered web users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/modx-0963-open-source-content-management-system-a-detailed-overview/</link>
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		<title>A Detailed Review on Alfresco - An Open Source Enterprise Content Management System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we had comprehensively reviewed eZ publish- an open source enterprise content management system for you. We have another one today, Alfresco. Without going into much details about enterprise content management systems (which you can find out from eZ publish article), let's go straight into our topic today.
What is Alfresco
Alfresco offers an enterprise content management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-detailed-review-on-alfresco-an-open-source-enterprise-content-management-system/</link>
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		<title>A Comprehensive Review of eZ Publish - Open Source Enterprise Content Management System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[eZ publish is a commercially-supported, dual license web content management system by Norway-based eZ systems. eZ publish is one of the most popular enterprise content management system. So, those who are not familiar with Content Management System (or need a brush-up), lemme give you a brief introduction to CMS and ECM.
Content Management System
A content management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-comprehensive-review-of-ez-publish-open-source-enterprise-content-management-system/</link>
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		<title>Taragana Corporate Site Re-Design Doubles Site Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How effective is a site re-design? The final proof is in site traffic. When we started re-designing Taragana.com we had many apprehensions. One thing we knew for sure, the corporate site we had then sucked in three major ways:

1. The site content was not in any way reflective of all the cool things we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/taragana-corporate-site-re-design-doubles-site-traffic/</link>
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		<title>How To Remove Attribution Link / Link Back From Anaconda Theme for WordPress?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anaconda Theme for WordPress 2.x blogs is a next generation 3 column CSS based theme provided by us. Anaconda Theme requires an attribution link at the bottom of each page. That is all we ask for our hard work in developing and testing this theme. However you may not want to have this attribution link [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-remove-attribution-link-link-back-from-anaconda-theme-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>New Version of Taragana.Com Released Using MODx CMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs. We needed a solution to enable us to easily create microsites for our products with distinctive look, embed functionality with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-version-of-taraganacom-released-using-modx-cms/</link>
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		<title>Detailed Post-Mortem of a Website Hack Through WordPress &amp; How To Protect Your WordPress Blog From Hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This WordPress blog was hacked for few hours on 24th December (nice Christmas present!) from Russia. The hacker exploited several WordPress vulnerabilities in administrative scripts to gain full access to the website (as permitted to apache user), including the ability to upload &#038; run scripts, delete any file owned by apache user, view the file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/detailed-post-mortem-of-a-website-hack-through-wordpress-how-to-protect-your-wordpress-blog-from-hacking/</link>
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		<title>How To Truly Delete Pages in MODx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MODx is an excellent AJAX enabled content management system, which is leagues ahead of Joomla / Mambo. One of the features of MODx is that pages aren't fully deleted. They are marked as deleted (displayed as strike-through items) and they are not displayed on the web. However they still remain in the database. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-truly-delete-pages-in-modx/</link>
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		<title>CMS Talk: Goodbye Joomla, Hello Modx&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been an avid user of Mambo and now Joomla since 2001. taragana.com is designed using Joomla. Unfortunately we haven't been able to maintain the site very well, our fault not Joomla's.
I wanted to re-design the site to highlight our products and service, and to cope up with our plan for several micro-site development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cms-talk-goodbye-joomla-hello-modx/</link>
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		<title>The Other Fedora: Open Source Software Repository</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know about the other Fedora, the open source software repository?
Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects. Digital objects can encapsulate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-other-fedora-open-source-software-repository/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Comment Spam Protection: Comment Guard Plugin Beta Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: Comment Guard pro has been released. Please check the features here.
I am happy to announce the release of Comment Guard Plugin (0.2 Beta) for beta testing1.
Comment Guard plugin (for WordPress) unobtrusively prevents robotic spam2 (which accounts of over 99% of your spam) without causing any problem for humans. Humans will not feel any difference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying hard to update all of our existing customers with the latest version of Translator Plugin Pro. It is a hard and time consuming effort (and without any remuneration).
There are essentially two challenges to this. First of all the batch processing script used to create a customized version is doing something very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-updates-56-left/</link>
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		<title>WordPress (Blogging Software) Version 2.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress, a popular blogging software, has released version 2.1 with many exciting features and over 550 bug fixes.

The key features are:

Autosaving of posts - It has incorporated the features of tw_autosave plugin in the core.
Tabbed editor - Allows switching between WYSIWYG &#038; plain text mode editor. I am not too excited about this feature going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-blogging-software-version-21-released/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro Compatible With WordPress 2.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress just released version 2.1. We have tested Translator Plugin Pro with 2.1 release and it works perfectly out of the box.
Translator Plugin Pro is compatible with WordPress 2.0.4 and above, including but not limited to 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.1&#8230;
BTW: We have started shipping upgrades. Honk if you haven't received your upgrade copy by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-compatible-with-wordpress-21/</link>
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		<title>Alternative Flag Images for Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the frequent requests with Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro software is for alternative flag images for display. We have addressed this demand in two ways. First of all we have changed the flag images to better looking, at least I and my QA lead thinks, and slightly bigger, though smaller in size, flag images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/alternative-flag-images-for-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Managing and Customizing OpenCMS 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a review of the book Managing and Customizing OpenCms 6 by Matt Butcher and published by PACKT Publishing.

OpenCms Content Management System Overview
OpenCms is a popular CMS (Content Management System) software based on Java and XML technologies. The OpenCms site has a good description:
OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/book-review-managing-and-customizing-opencms-6/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin 4.0/4.1 Shipping Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We planned to ship most of the updates for existing customers on Sunday, yes we did work on Sunday too too get your updates in time.
However while trying to ship Translator 4.0 update we faced a small problem with the batch file. We stopped shipping the updates and focussed on fixing the problem. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-4041-shipping-update/</link>
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		<title>Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 - Architecture &amp; Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 is a significant step forward in terms of architecture of Translator plugin. I have re-architected the software to allow pluggable translation engines. No longer are we dependent on one or two translation engines. We can add more at will. Currently we are using three translation engines to give you 14 X [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-40-the-architecture-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>How To Get Older Versions of WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is a popular blogging software which is used in this blog and lot of blogs on the internet. One of the frequently asked questions was how can we get older versions of WordPress. Previously all we could get was the latest version using this link, which automatically links to the latest version of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-older-versions-of-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Simple Thoughts Upgraded To WordPress 2.0.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally took the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.7, the latest sparkling version of WordPress (till 2.1 comes out later this month). I am happy to say that the upgrade was uneventful for once and things looked fine after sanity checks. My biggest motivation was to install Translator Plugin 4.0, I didn't [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-thoughts-upgraded-to-wordpress-207/</link>
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		<title>On Comment Guard - WordPress Comment Spam Prevention Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I talked about developing a comment spam prevention plugin with zero false positives. I am currently using it on all of our blogs. Today I want to talk briefly about its origin and goals. 

But first here are the stats from my Simple Thoughts blog:
1095 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-comment-guard-wordpress-comment-spam-prevention-plugin/</link>
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		<title>Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/experimental-comment-spam-prevention-system-for-wordpress-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very happy to announce the long-awaited release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro version 4.0. This release contains several exciting new features:
Multi-Language Support
Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 supports blogs written in 14 different languages - English, German, Russian, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
In Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-40-released/</link>
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		<title>The Big Void In WordPress Comment Spam Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday. The key problem with all of these plugins is high rate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-big-void-in-wordpress-comment-spam-protection/</link>
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		<title>Critical WordPress Security Defect Found and Fixed in 2.0.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While WordPress 2.0.6 is still hot a serious security defect (SQL injection attack) was found and fixed in WordPress 2.0.7, which is currently available as RC1 (release candidate 1). The key defects fixed are:
Security defect
Worked around a PHP bug for PHP 4.x less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5.x less than 5.1.4 with  register_globals ON [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/critical-wordpress-security-defect-found-and-fixed-in-207/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro Performance Stats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We did a performance comparison of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro with our competitor. This is purely a performance comparison. For the purpose of this comparison we ignored glaring differences like we provide tons of additional features and functionality, full support, actively maintained, unlimited upgrades and that we support translation from each of 14 languages to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-performance-stats/</link>
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		<title>5 Things You Would See in Simple Thoughts Blog in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. More regular posting Sometimes I have posted too many and sometimes none. I aim to post more regularly in 2007
2. Improved layout of the blog I may not drastically change the look and feel but I will extensively tweak it in the coming months. It's going to be a year of experiments and changes.
3. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-things-you-would-see-in-simple-thoughts-blog-in-2007/</link>
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		<title>Meet The Top 10 Comment Spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of weeks I have been inundated with spam comments. I identified the culprits. Meet them, know them and block them.


1
Offence count
IP Address
Owned by


2
32715
82.137.247.131 &#038; 82.137.247.132
person:          Samer AL Nashef
address:         1 Mazza Autostrad Damascus, Syria. P.O.BOX [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meet-the-top-10-comment-spammers/</link>
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		<title>How Translator Plugin Pro Improves Performance By Dual Caching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator plugin Pro uses dual caching to speed up your access time. The first level cache doesn't use the WordPress object cache and will improve your performance even with standard caching disabled. It simply caches frequently used data.

The second level cache uses WordPress Object cache which allows us to serve your translated pages much faster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-translator-plugin-pro-improves-performance-by-dual-caching/</link>
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		<title>How To Increase Your WordPress Site Performance (Without Losing Functionality) by 10 Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress bloggers often engorge themselves with tons of plugins which are freely available (free wordpress plugins we provide). However quality is not assured with most of the free plugins out there in the wild and often they end up significantly slowing the site. How can you assure optimum performance without sacrificing functionality?

Note: We do extensive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-increase-your-wordpress-site-performance-without-losing-functionality-by-10-times-or-more/</link>
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		<title>Bigger And Better Flag Images For Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major additional languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Swedish and Chinese (features, testimonials and download). It comes with country flags representing the various languages it can translate to. One of the frequent requests we have is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bigger-and-better-flag-images-for-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-for-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>WordPress.com Copies Core Drupal Branding Theme Citing GPL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drupal is known to be geeky (read hard) for casual CMS users. Drupal was all set to change its geeky image with a super cool theme - Garland. WordPress.com's founder Matt Mullenweg asked for free help in porting this special theme to WordPress from the WordPress hacker's community. It was generally perceived as a bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpresscom-copies-core-drupal-branding-theme-citing-gpl/</link>
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		<title>Translator 4.0 Plugin Demo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can see the demo version of Translator 4.0 Plugin in our Law blog. Look at the wide array of languages supported.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-40-plugin-demo/</link>
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		<title>Translation Matrix of 14 Languages Supported in Translator Plugin Pro Version 4.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro now supports 14 languages (English, ) as base language of the blog in version 4.0 (currently in testing). Previously it supported only English as the base language of the blog. Not only that, in version 4.0, it also provides translation for each these 14 languages to 13 other languages and with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/matrix-of-languages-supported-in-translator-plugin-40/</link>
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		<title>Angsuman&#8217;s Translator Plugin Pro Increases Web Traffic by 400% in 3 Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke's Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400%  increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-explodes-web-traffic-and-links/</link>
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		<title>How To Properly Display Multi-Lingual Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have sites in multiple languages you may notice, depending on your server configuration, that particular languages may not be displayed properly in browsers. And yet when you save the file and view it they display fine. Here's what happens and how you can fix it.

This is a particularly perplexing problem and may affect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-properly-display-multi-lingual-sites/</link>
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