Content Management Interoperability Services announced

EMC, IBM and Microsoft have announced the creation of a jointly developed interface specification called Content Management Interoperability Services, or CMIS.

Building a barebones CMS

The article Building a Barebones Content Management System: An Introduction is the start of a tutorial that explains how to put a barebones CMS together with PHP and MySQL using three available APIs:

• yaapi: a programming interface that makes displaying articles on your webpage easy.
• patTemplate: a versatile templating engine that supports a wide range of features.
• patUser: a user management class that helps you with authentication, group and permission management, statistics and more.