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2011
Going Open Source
Composite C1 - 1½ years after leaving the closed world
2010September
Switching to Free Open Source
Composite C1 2.0 released with source code and all
- All the features of a 3 year old commercial product
- Live tested by partners and customers, stable, productive
- Source code on CodePlex
- Mozilla Public License 1.1
- Starter site: bare bones, omnicorp demo
- A user and developer friendly CMS
- Most important packages
- Decent documentation online
- A site dedicated to user guides
2010October
New C1 Packages
Galleries, navigation, social media and sharing
- jQuery based AD Gallery, presenting images from the media archive
- Facebook Gallery, presenting images from Facebook albums
- Twitter feeds
- More navigation features
- A "Package Server" so anyone can publish and share C1 Packages
2010October
SP1 released
Filling holes in the web developer experience
- Bug fixes, speed improvements
- New source code editor (SkyWriter/Bespin, was later replaced)
- Inline C# Functions (code c# via the browser and run on the fly)
- Ready for C1 Console localization (the UI in other languages)
- Page Cache control to XSLT devs
- More …
2010November
New C1 Packages
Google search and SQL Server
- Google Site Search integration (commercial Google service)
- Wizard based migration from XML data files to SQL Server
2011January
CompositeC1Contrib Initial Commit
A community heart beat!
- Started by Pauli Østerø, a Faroes working as a web dev in Greenland
- ASP.NET providers and MasterPage support, short URLs
2011February
New C1 Packages
Google maps, Silverlight and admin tools
- Google Maps integration
- Silverlight Player
- Easy "print page" from the C1 Console
- Verbose Logging for the developers
2011March
Composite C1 2.1
Broadening the reach
- IE,Chrome, Firefox run the C1 Console with access to all features
- The SqlDataProvider is made free open source after community demand
- Package for fast migration from XML to SQL
- Commercial packages available as fully functional 30 day trials
- Support for hosting Composite C1 on Windows Azure
- New source code editor (CodeMirror), works in IE and Chrome also
- Page profiler –add “?c1mode=perf” to get a report on function execution times
- I/O Layer enabling easy On Premise to/from Windows Azure migration
- Data type CRUD to XSLT devs
2011April
Composite C1 2.1.1
Like 2.1, just really stable and nice
- A stable and bug free 2.1 that lived for 8 months
- Better HTML 5 support
- Best rated CMS on CodePlex, 6th best rated app of all 25.000+
2011April
New C1 Packages
More Google search, Azure, Translators, html tools
- Microsoft Translator integration, letting visitors translate your content on the fly
- Google Custom Search integration (free Google service)
- jQuery Slimbox Gallery, integrating with the media archive
- AddThis - easy access to social media share buttons
- Windows Azure tool for verifying correct I/O API use
2011May
Starter sites in HTML, ASP.NET and XSLT
A better starting point when building sites
- A starting point for developing Composite C1 websites
- Mobile friendly clean CSS and HTML
- Layouts, menus, sitemap and meta tags in place
- Available in three flavors: ASP.NET Master Pages, HTML and XSLT
2011May
The C1 Console in three new languages
Dutch, Russian and Ukrainian
- Languages auto installed at setup, available as packages also
- Users can select UI language independent of each other
2011June
Across Windows Azure data centers
"Composite Start" served worldwide
- "Dog fooding" our Windows Azure Publisher
- Serving the "Composite Start" screen you see in the C1 Console
- Served from Europe, North America and South East Asia
- Using the Windows Azure Traffic Manager to direct traffic to the closest host
2011July
New C1 Packages
Social media and community features
- Facebook Comments on pages
- Facebook Like buttons and feeds
- Google +1
- Contact Form
- Google Picasa integration (image gallery)
- Raty for user ratings on content
- Simple wiki turning page content into a wiki
- Windows Identity Foundation integration
2011August
Windows Azure Publisher
Scale your Composite C1 site across the globe
- Easy and cheap mass hosting for your existing Composite C1 website
- Maintain your website locally, like on a company server, an ISP or WebMatrix
- Move your website updates to Windows Azure with a “Publish” click
- Publish to any number of Web Roles ("hosts")
- Publish to one or more regions (Europe, US, Asia)
- Use Windows Azure Traffic Manager to route traffic to nearest Web Role
2011August
New C1 Packages
Forum, Flickr and more jQuery
- Flickr integration
- Nabble Forum integration
- jQuery NivoSlider gallery integrated with the media archive
2011September
CompositeC1Contrib keeps giving
Favorite features from the community
- Making end-user life easier with "Favorite Functions"
- Drag-and-drop sorting for pages and data items
- Change history features for data types
- E-mail API for better queuing, logging and testing
2011September
www.composite.net gets an overhaul
No more pink?!
- “Reference” showing a lot more featured websites with screenshots
- “Buzz and press” area showing all the positive feedback we got
- Refactoring with new colors, richer home pages, omnipresent social buttons
- Improved product presentation
2011October
Razor Functions
A complete smash hit from CompositeC1Contrib
- Superb markup control; a crisp syntax let you mix HTML and C# with ease
- ASP.NET Razor combine what is great about XSLT and ASP.NET
- Razor Functions automatically turn a Razor web page into a C1 Function
- Public properties become C1 Parameters end-users can easily control
"Wow, another Open Source CMS adds support for Razor
in a really cool way!"
Erik Porter, PM on ASP.NET Razor.
2011October
Handling massive traffic
Running Copenhagen’s “Culture Night” on Windows Azure
- Website presenting hundreds of cultural events with personalized content (login, personalized programs), developed by 2Mind.dk
- Moved from single server on-premise to Windows Azure very fast
- Handled a day with 75.000 visitors
- Peaking at 12 servers, total cost around $100
2011October
First organic community event
WebUG Zagreb gets a one hour intro to Composite C1
- Miljenko Cvjetko (HolisticWare) talks about Composite C1 at a user group presentation in Zagreb, Croatia
- HolisticWare have contributed a Silverlight Player packages to Composite C1 , spearheaded a German translation of the C1 Console and are working on a number of other projects
2011November
3.0 Release Candidates available
Community driven testing
- A total of 4 release candidates are released
- End result is a very stable release in December
2011November
Razor based starter site
Templates and navigation done with Razor
- New starter site option based on Razor Functions
- Templates an navigation widgets are cshtml files
- A fourth templating alternative to ASP.NET Master Page, XSLT and HTML
2011November
New C1 Packages
User feedback, Facebook and LESS
- Open Graph Protocol support via page meta data. Control how you look on Facebook.
- Disqus integration, social media intensive comment feature
- UserEcho integration, a "give us your feedback" widget with a back-end
- LESS CSS support, for writing way smarter CSS
2011December
Composite C1 3.0
A rock solid user experience
- Key user experience improvements - a lot less clicking
- Instant image and file upload from all “select file” dialogs
- Seamless paste from Word
- Page URL’s are now “spot on” and customizable
- ASP.NET Razor support: starter site and C1 Functions
- Refactored “Build Manager” – eliminating instability and performance issues
- Visual Editor support HTML 5, iframe and script tags
- API for commercial packages
- Runs seamlessly on SQL Server and SQL Azure
2011December
ASP.NET Web Forms alive and well
User Controls can be C1 Functions too!
- Yet a cool CompositeC1Contribution project
- User Control Functions automatically turn a ascx file into a C1 Function
- Public properties become C1 Parameters end-users can easily control
2012January
Composite C1 3.1
A stable, long lasting release
- Spell Check features for Mozilla Firefox users
- Support for LESS CSS on websites and .less file editing in the C1 Console
- Calibrating the “Build Manager”, improving performance and stability.
- Fixing issues reported on the 3.0 release
2012January
Hackathon 2012.1
Biggest gathering of 1'ers ever
- Community initiated event in Copenhagen about Composite C1 for developers
- Biggest gathering of Composite C1 power developers ever – from Denmark, Ukraine and Germany
2012March
A quick status on Composite C1
What did Open Soucre do for us?
- Composite's last fiscal result was the best in four years
- Best rated open source CMS on CodePlex, ahead of other .Net based brands
- 50.000 downloads, 10-15 sites going online daily
- Runs on both Windows Server and Windows Azure
- Support ASP.NET Razor, Web Forms, MVC and XSLT
- A living CompositeC1Contrib project giving advance access to features
- Massive positive feedback, code contributions and a growing community
- Now used by high-end agencies and companies, including Fortune 500