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Straker to Showcase Shado On-Demand at Localization World

Updated Oct 10, 2009

Straker will be showcasing the latest release of its mutlilingual web content management platform at Localization World, Silicon Valley from the 20th to 23rd October 2009.



Shado 8.6.3 Released

Updated Oct 09, 2009

Shado 8.6.3 has been released with numerous bug fixes and some other great features added.



Straker and Qwentes Develop Closer Ties in Europe

Updated Sep 21, 2009

Qwentes, a member of the KANTOR Group of companies and Straker have deepened their commercial relationship with Qwentes being the partner of choice for supporting ShadoCMS within the European... more »



New Server Farm In Europe Launched

Updated Sep 21, 2009

Shado On-Demand has added a server farm in Europe for the ShadoCMS SaaS platform.



Why Railo kicks butt for ColdFusion based SaaS

Updated Sep 11, 2009

There is a lot of debate around the relative merits of Railo v Adobe ColdFusion and each to his own with that debate. There is however one area where Railo is a clear winner at the moment ( not to say... more »



JVM Perm Out of memory fix

Updated Sep 11, 2009

With Coldfusion and Railo applications making Java so easy it is not unusual that you can have 1,000''s of underlying java classes created and this can cause jvm OutOfMemoryError issues relating to... more »



See Straker at CFUnited - Leesburg Virginia

Updated Jul 13, 2009

Straker are proud to announce that we will again be sponsoring the CFUnited conference in LeesBurg Virginia this year which is on from August 12 - 17 at the Lansdowne Resort,



Shado8.6 Release Notes

Updated May 05, 2009

The ShadoCMS 8.6 point release is aimed at making the ShadoCMS interface easier to work with and providing a web 2.0 skin. The new skin is based on the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) libraries which will... more »



New Formbuilder Demo

Updated Apr 19, 2009

Building forms is one of our most requested features and whilst ShadoCMS has an existing form builder it is a few years old and in need off an update. Our engineers have been working on our new form... more »



Hong Kong ITC Expo

Updated Apr 12, 2009

Straker are exhibiting at the Hong Kong ITC expo in the Hong Kong convention and exhibition center this week from Monday 13th - Thursday 16th April.  Stand No. L508 for anyone wishing to stop by... more »



Debugging ZoomFlex Applications

Updated May 08, 2008

When you are developing and extending applications with ZoomFlex, you would need to use debugging to see the results of your changes to the code. As ZoomFlex applications have two components to it --... more »



How do I integrate my existing site templates into ShadoCMS?

Updated Aug 06, 2007

This is a question often asked by developers new to Shado and when someone is first trialling ShadoCMS so we feel it is worthy of a blog entry.



Building Idiot Proof Templates

Updated Jul 30, 2007

This article looks at how to build idiot proof templates. These are templates that have very basic controls and restrict the opportunities for less skilled users to make mistakes when editing... more »