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Just recently the Bear has installed a couple of open source projects.

The first of which is MediaWiki, which is the wiki application that Wikipedia uses. For the moment, we are using this to catalog items the Bear has for dinner. The Bear likes to eat.

The second item is Simple Machines Forums (SMF). The Bear installed this software and formatted it to include the FYREBEAR website theme. Additionally, the theme includes a right column which contains a javascript code that uses Google’s API to import a Flickr RSS feed to output photo images as well as RSS-to-Javascript’s RSS parser to include a RSS feed.

Both of the open source applications run on PHP and are backended by a MySQL database.

• Check them out here at FYREBEAR.com! Wiki | Forums

While I was testing out some other open source applications, recently SMF Forums and MediaWiki, I thought I also would give WordPress a try.

I am enjoying exploring it’s templates and CSS. I applied the FYREBEAR wrapper around the templates and am looking forward to checking out all of the available plugins.

Already the plugins I have installed are the Leopard Admin skin and Thickbox.