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MeshCMS is an online editing system written in Java. It provides a set of features usually included in a CMS, but it uses a more traditional approach: pages are stored in regular HTML files and all additional features are file-based, without needing a database.

MeshCMS has been thought as a quick tool to edit pages online, manage files and create some common components like menus, breadcrumbs, mail forms, image galleries and so on. It requires few resources: the default 64MB heap is enough to host a dozen of sites.

Main features are:

This page shows some screenshots taken from a default installation (with samples) and from this site.

To better evaluate what MeshCMS can do, take a look at some sites powered by it. Sites are ordered randomly and the order changes automatically from time to time.

If you have a website that uses MeshCMS and want to list it here, drop me a line with the URL. I won't list sites without owner's permission, so if you want to see more examples, just search the web for "meshcms".

The English part of my blog is mainly technical. If you can read Italian, check the Italian section for articles of other kind.

Flowers Ishido is a little game I wrote many years ago for Windows 3.1; fortunately it continues to run on more recent versions of Windows, so I'm happy to make it available for download.

Download Flowers Ishido

This game is distributed as freeware and is a porting of a game available for Unix platforms.

These are the rules of the game, as included with the X version.

There are 72 tiles, two of each combination of six colors and six shapes. At the start of the game, there are six tiles on the board representing each shape and color. To place an additional tile on the board, you must match at least one adjacent…