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What's Global Moxie?

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.

What's Big Medium?

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.

On Shelves

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 v2.0b5: "Respect Your Elders"

Posted Sep 1, 2006

Today's "respect your elders" beta update offers a little help for servers running older versions of Perl (I'm looking at you, Perl 5.6). Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

The New Files

If you're upgrading from v2.0b4, you need to upload only six files from the new version (make sure that your FTP client is set to "plain text" or "ASCII" mode when you upload the files).

  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/DefaultTmpl.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/App/Web.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/BigMed/Driver/File.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/Class/ISA.pm
  • moxiebin/Modules/HTML/Template.pm

Change Log

If you care to know the nitty-gritty details, here's the complete list of changes:

  • Added Class::ISA to the Modules directory to ease installation for pre-5.8 versions of Perl.
  • Fixed a template-parsing bug under Perl 5.6.x in HTML::Template.
  • Removed some non-ascii chacaters from DefaultTmpl.pm, which caused some JavaScript-rendering problems in pre-5.8 versions of Perl.
  • Added Perl version number to crash reports.
  • Added smarter filehandle handling in the File driver.
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The Greatest

"This is the greatest CMS software I have ever seen. The execution of Big Medium is spot-on, particularly the administration sections."
—Clifford Smith

"Thanks so much, Josh. Big Medium is a HUGE hit with the school I'm working with."
—Karen Kaiser

"I have to say that Big Medium is one of the easiest web applications I have ever used. Once I realized how complete the admin panel is, it was hard to stop tweaking my site! I love this application!"
—Raymond Ringston

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