They are everywhere: protopage, pageflakes, netvibes et al are free, easy to use -as long as you have a powerful browser- and moderatly eye-pleasing.

SO?

A couple months ago, I wondered how long it would take me to build my own ‘WebTop’ (You can play with it here). The challenge would be to get it to a satisfactory state over a week-end.
Of course, I decided to use existing open-source code for the applications’ primary needs.

While in the process of making sure that the web host integrity is maintained when using nBBS in multi mode, I realized that Smarty, beloved php templating engine, offers so many configuration options that it’s hard to tell what’s really secure and what isn’t. Here is how I have implemented our security model: ?View Code PHP// BEGIN Template system require [...]

Well, after spending quite some time cleaning up the code, making sure that no ‘dangerous’ Admin CP operation is available in multi-boards mode, and identifying which settings need to be made immutable, we are almost there. I am currently working on the automatic setup script. Remaining to do: mkdir servers/SERVERID servers/SERVERID/attachments servers/SERVERID/avatars servers/SERVERID/emoticons servers/SERVERID/lang servers/SERVERID/lang/en servers/SERVERID/uploads servers/SERVERID/templates servers/SERVERID/templates/* servers/SERVERID/templates/*_c cp [...]

Not much to say. It’s open! var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://nexus.zteo.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “y”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL25leHVzLnp0ZW8uY29tL2Jsb2cvMjAwNi8xMi8wNy9vcGVuaW5nLW9mLXRoaXMtZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQtYmxvZy88d3B0Yj5PcGVuaW5nIG9mIHRoaXMgZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQgYmxvZzx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9uZXh1cy56dGVvLmNvbTx3cHRiPlRoZSBOZXh1cw%3D%3D”;