Small Tip:Remove all hyperlinks from Microsoft Word document

We all have had headaches when you have copied content from the webpage into the word,
Because Microsoft Word retains all the hyperlinks in the document, even if you dont need any, then its a painstaking process to remove each and every hyperlink.

If you want to remove all the hyperlinks?
Then select the text. Press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to covert all the hypelinks to text.

Cool.

Courtesy this blog

Flat File based Content Management Systems

I don't know whether any of you people out there have ever had this problem where your friend asks you to make changes to their websites once and too often(of course assuming you know web scripting languages and he doesn't) and sometimes you are just too busy or the changes they need are bit too many and at the same time too trivial, or just both. 

So, when this happened to me i decided to deploy a simple CMS(content management system for the uninitiated) for my friend and let him edit his content himself (and also to avoid feeling guilty if i had to say NO ).

Hence, i set off on the task to find a simple Open Source CMS which i could setup immediately and wherein i can incorporate the layout of the friends website quickly and efficiently. Well i would say it was a taxing job to say the least, there are thousands of CMS's available out there it just makes you completely confused over which one to use, Oh and yeah did i mention i couldn't use any of the CMS which uses any kind of database(mainly MySQL) because my friend had no access to his web server's database server (yes don't ask, i know in this age and century its hard to believe servers without database or at least a client account without the access to one). So, this effectively meant all the popular and tried and tested and good CMS's like Joomla, Silverstripe, Drupal, Wordpress were directly out of question, and i had to find out a CMS which used flat files. 

Finally, i zeroed down on two which i liked named Sapid and Flatpress. well since not being from the world of CMS's so i virtually did not know of their existence, but the more i found out about them the more i loved them.

1) Sapid: I loved it mainly because I'm generally biased towards anything which uses XML and Ajax(dont ask why) and i used it immediately, and it didn't let it down with the features it provided. Here is what Official Sapid description says:

SAPID is a tool for site creation and management. SAPID is distinguished through the comfortable Ajax-based site structure management interface and high flexibility of design, content and functionality integration. SAPID does not need DB (file-flat CMS). SAPID is inline CMS. It means that site documents are editable in a way “what you see is what you get” a document in delivery phase looks the same as in administrative phase. 

and it is what is described, but sadly the latest version i downloaded didn't work at all due to one or more errors, so i downloaded a one version lower than latest and got it running. It worked but the code just broke down here and there throughout the control panel and just became messy with lot of errors and warnings. i wanted to use this one but i just couldn't because i had no time to do all the debugging and then again i also had to implement the layout of the existing website hence making it mandatory for me to study how templates worked in sapid. So i just let it go thinking i would figure it out later. I still want to try sapid out as soon as i find time. if you out there have done it do leave me a comment.

2) Flatpress: This is the other one i implemented after trying out few others and i must say i just completely loved it. It is a very well made, small,lightweight and sweet CMS. i could understand with a very little effort, how it worked when i went through the code. The  installation was very easy and simple plus it has a very good community and active forum. Here is the official description and features:

FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work.

Features

• Standard-compliant (XHTML valid)
• Plugin support
• Widget system
• Easy to customize with themes(powered by Smarty)

The good part was i could easily customize the theme template to one i wanted, i couldn't have asked for a better CMS.

So, all you guys out there in search of a flat file Content Management System, do try out the two i have mentioned.Also if you think you have used a better CMS then these then post it into the comment and let me know.

Well The First One..

Hello there,

Well this is not a new concept there are tremendous other blogs which are exactly doing the same things, but hey, who cares its what i want to do, plus its fun.

Anyways i will periodically post small "how to" of things on PC or Linux(No Mac yet), related to well anything that i want from programming to trouble shooting. :-) where most people stumbles or atleast where i stumbled.

I'll obviously be stating my sources if somone else has already posted it.