I just upgraded ocszone.com to MiaCMS 4.6.5 release, and now playing with a few things. If the site looks uglier and messier than before :), no worries I intend to fix it as soon as possible.
MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. Why a fork? We felt that the policies, processes, and priorities of the official Mambo Foundation were having a negative impact on the code and the community. Innovation, creativity, and team spirit have all but been eliminated. Thus the fork. Much of the same crew that built you Mambo 4.5.3+ through 4.6.3 are here now continuing development on the same award winning software base that everyone has come to know and love. Let us make clear we never gave up on the product or the community, but rather just the Foundation which controlled it.
The MiaCMS project was initiated by four individuals with profound knowledge of the Mambo CMS system. The founding team includes Al Warren (alwarren), Chad Auld (cauld), Ozgur Cem Sen (ocs), and Richard Ong (arpee). Together we have held the following roles within Mambo over the years; project leader, board member, steering committee member, core team leader, quality team leader, documentation team leader, and server administration. Those who know the project well will recognize those listed as what was the majority of the current core Mambo development team. Who is left to carry on Mambo development? The answer is not many. We plan to continue down the revolutionary path we laid out for Mambo before ultimately cut our ties to the Mambo Foundation. Just that we will be doing it as MiaCMS from this point forward. So again... this is a fork, we do give credit to Mambo for past work done, and we do aim to make MiaCMS even better (in fact we think it already is) !
We're currently in the process of rebranding our public domain application under a new umbrella. Brilaps will be the new and the forever home for moseasymedia, Easy Paypal, and more the come extentions; as well as many other interesting projects.
The Download Center in ocszone.com will be shutdown. Since all the projects are on SourceForge.net now, we don't really need it anymore. (Your user registration will not be sold, or shared with any other parties)
User registrations on ocszone.com will be turned off. You can signup on http://forum.brilaps.com to submit your questions (or simply use the Contact Us link on brilaps.com
Support Forum is moving to http://forum.brilaps.com . All the existing user accounts will remain the same. If you have any problems accessing the forum, please let us now. info @ ocssoftwaresolutions.com
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ocszone.com will still serve as a demo site we get all of our ducks in a row at brilaps.com . :)
We hope that this transition will be as seamless as possible.
So, here are some links for you to take a peek and let us know about what you think:
Easy Paypal Module (v.1.0.2) for Mambo and Joomla! released. Easy
Paypal Module comes in two flavours; Easy Pay Paypal (for Buy Now
purposes), and Easy Donate Paypal (for Donation purposes). Most of the time, we don't really need a full blown and complex
shopping cart solutions. It's an overkill to install and maintain a
shopping cart when all you need is to collect donations, sell a single
item, or charge service fees via Paypal.
Easy Paypal module implements 'Website Payments Standard Integration
Guide' specification by Paypal and makes them available as module
parameters. One of the neat things we like about Easy Paypal module is
that, it allows you to switch back and forth between your Paypal
Sandbox and actual Paypal account.
You can also use multiple instances of the module on different pages, for different products.
On top of that, each of those Paypal modules can be assigned different styling via CSS.
You can visually select which button to use for in your module, and
style each module independently by assigning a custom CSS file and
suffix to them.
The Mambo Team announces the final release of the Mambo 4.5.x series of releases. This marks the end of an era for one of the web's most popular Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS). The enormous success of Mambo 4.5.x led to many forks, some successful, some less so. "Mambo 4.5 has been a great CMS, a good framework, and a great school to many of us", says Ozgur Cem Sen, Core Team Leader of Mambo.
OCS Software Solutions launched StarvingEngineers.com as a job market place for many engineering disciplines, such as "Computer & Software", "Civil & Structural", "Mechanical" to name a few.
For the sake of clarity, the "Starving Engineer" name does not mean "engineers who starve of hunger or don't have money". If you'd like to know more please follow this link.....
Throughout 2007, job postings will be $5 for 30 days.
OCS Software Solutions launched http://SemanticWebFeeds.com . We hope that site to grow into a bigger rss, atom, rdf feeds repository for the folks who are interested in the semantic web (or web of data).
From a software developer’s perspective QA is the most boring and unnecessary part of software development. "How dare someone check my state-of-art code and tell me that it is not working? Tsk tsk tsk…" I cannot name one software developer, who never said that. I have known many, plus I am still one of them – been there, still doing it.
The following pages will demonstrate the capabilities of moseasymedia 1.0.4.
moseasymedia supports media plugins and media players that support wmv, wma, divx, midi, avi, mpg, mpeg, asf, asx, swf, flv, dcr, dir, mov, mp4, ram, rv, rpm, ra, mp3, playlist files (RSS, Atom, XSPF) extensions to name a few.That pretty much covers all the media formats that exist today. Under the circumstances when the media type cannot be determined from the extension, moseasymedia tries to match the media's host domain with it's supported players.
moseasymedia supports the following players out of the box.
Windows Media Player
Flash
Shockwave
Quicktime
Real Player
DivX
JW FLV Player
JW Media Player
JW MP3 Player
XSPF Web Player Extended & Slim
You may not be able to view some of the demo pages, possibly because of missing plugin or codec.
*the space between the "{" and "moseasymedia media=.........." is put in there to demostrate the moseasymedia tag to the reader. The actual video embedding tag must not have it.
Feel free to offer your videos and songs for the demo pages.
If you don't hear from me in 24 hours about your question, please send me another message. It's probably because, I missed it amongst other emails.
Unless there is an emergency on my side, you should at least receive a personal receipt of acknowlegement from me - not an automated email that says, thanks for contacting us, yada yada yada, blah blah blah..".
OCS Software Solutions is incorporated in 2005 as a personal venture, with the idea of providing well designed, robust software while keeping the simplicity and easy of use in mind. And most importantly excellent service and support to its clientèle and users.
ocszone.com was brought online in April 2007 as the web-front of OCS Software Solutions.
Our motto is to add a personal touch to the customer(client) communications. Instead of sending out uptight emails starting with "to whom it may concern", we say "hi", or we wouldn't mind emails that greet us with "what's up" even "wad up dude". The whole point is enjoying ourselves and smiling while we are doing what we are doing. This does not mean that we do not take our business seriously. Just a different approach. We enjoy it, hopefully you will too.
* ocs does NOT stand for "Office Communications Server", "Officer Candidate School", "Obsessive Compulsive Syndrome", "Online Consultation Service", "Overhead Contact System", "Oracle Collaboration Suite", "Observational Coding System" etc... It is simply the initials of one of the founders.
The MiaCMS project was initiated by four individuals with profound knowledge of the Mambo CMS system. The founding team includes Al Warren (alwarren), Chad Auld (cauld), Ozgur Cem Sen (ocs), and Richard Ong (arpee). Together we have held the following roles within Mambo over the years; project leader, board member, steering committee member, core team leader, quality team leader, documentation team leader, and server administration. Those who know the project well will recognize those listed as what was the majority of the current core Mambo development team. Who is left to carry on Mambo development? The answer is not many. We plan to continue down the revolutionary path we laid out for Mambo before ultimately cut our ties to the Mambo Foundation. Just that we will be doing it as MiaCMS from this point forward. So again... this is a fork, we do give credit to Mambo for past work done, and we do aim to make MiaCMS even better (in fact we think it already is) !
We're currently in the process of rebranding our public domain application under a new umbrella. 
