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Global Moxie is the hypertext laboratory of Josh Clark, a designer, developer, and author who offers workshops and consulting for iPhone app design. He’s also creator of Big Medium, a web content management system. Josh spins words and code from multimedia studios in Providence, RI, and Paris, France.

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Big Medium is flexible, easy-to-use server software for creating and editing websites directly from your browser. Check out the features or download now.

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Books by Josh Clark

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders

iWork ’09: The Mising Manual

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Big Medium 2.0b10: "Grandma's Cookies"

Posted Sep 1, 2006

Today's "Grandma's Cookies" beta update addresses a crashing bug in servers running older versions of Perl (specifically 5.6.0) and a cookie problem on Windows IIS servers.

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

A Note About Theme Changes

If you're upgrading from a version prior to 2.0b9, see the notes on the 2.0b7 announcement page about the update to the "Cup o' Joe" theme.

The New Files

If you're upgrading from v2.0b9, you can upgrade by uploading only the following files and directories listed below.

When uploading, make sure that your FTP client is set to "plain text" or "ASCII" mode when you upload the files).

  • bmadmin/js/bigmedium_cp.js
  • bmadmin/js/bm-editor.js
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/App.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/App/Web.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/App/Web/Editor.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/App/Web/Login.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Content.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Language/en_us.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Plugin.pm
  • moxiedata/templates/site_templates/HTML/wi_htmlhead.tmpl

The Nitty Gritty

Here's what's new in this update:

  • Fixed crashing bug on servers running Perl 5.6.0 that occurred when saving "add-ons" like pullquotes, images, documents etc to an existing page. Thanks to Sander Feinberg.
  • Fixed bug that prevented session cookies from being saved correctly on Windows IIS servers.
  • Added missing type="text/css" tag to the stylesheet link in the <%htmlhead%> widget. Thanks to Patrick Sneyers.
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"Man do I love this script. My entire site is now all Big Medium top-to-bottom. I have used many, many scripts in my time... This one has me hooked and is the best I have ever used for a news site. Josh, you're the man."
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