Archive for January, 2010

The End of an Era

Posted on: January 29th, 2010

Yesterday we announced the release of ePublisher 2009.4, the culmination of what has been an exciting year of product development here at WebWorks.

 

In keeping with our standard policy of a two year rolling support window , this means that ePublisher 9.3 is no longer a supported version and is now officially classified as a Legacy Product.

 

This marks the passing of an era as we have now moved from products based on an incremental release number to supporting products based on a quarterly release cycle and easily identified by the date in which they shipped.

 

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Is Your Online Help A Security Risk?

Posted on: January 8th, 2010

As you are probably aware, back on December 15th we issued a Security Advisory for our WebWorks Help online help product. The security advisory was the result of several weeks extensive investigation of a potential loophole that could possibly be exploited by malicious software.  This was a situation we took very seriously and ensured that our most recent product release (ePublisher 2009.3) included fixes and updates to remedy the situation and remove the vulnerability going forward.

During our investigations and research we quickly discovered that we were far from the first vendor of publishing software to be in this position. It appears that several other vendors have also been similarly affected in recent years.

But what really caught our attention was a comment from a member of the ePublisher community:

“I never considered that my online help could be a potential attack vector!”

Traditionally online help is something that gets generated once and is then delivered with a product, or pushed out to a website. In most cases it continues to just sit there as web technology changes around it, becoming more and more vulnerable to hackers and malicious software.

Over the next few weeks we are planning several events that will hopefully help you answer the question I posed in the title of this post.

“Is your online help a security risk?”

More information will be posted here and on our Twitter feed in the next few days.

WebWorks Completes its 2009 ePublisher Series with the Release of ePublisher 2009.4

Posted on: January 8th, 2010 No Comments

Latest Release of Industry-Leading Content Conversion and Deployment Platform Improves on Popular Features

AUSTIN, Texas — January 28, 2010 — WebWorks.com, a brand of Quadralay Corporation, the leading developer of content conversion and deployment solutions for single and multi-source delivery of online content, today announced the 2009.4 release of its industry-leading ePublisher platform.

The 2009.4 release represents the culmination of the 2009 development cycle and both incorporates and improves on features and functions launched over the last year, including such highlights as:

  • PDF XSL-FO support for tight control of print and online publishing
  • Support for FrameMaker 9.0 input
  • Publishing to the Confluence wiki platform
  • Documentation feedback
  • Innovative new licensing technology

2009.4 also includes full security patches for projects developed in all currently supported versions of ePublisher, and full backwards compatibility.

ePublisher supports input from all versions of FrameMaker from version 6 upwards as well as input from Microsoft Word (up to and including Word 2007), and any DITA-XML compliant editor. Output to over 15 different delivery formats is available.

Existing WebWorks customers with active maintenance or subscription contracts will be automatically shipped a copy of ePublisher 2009.4 at no additional cost.

About WebWorks ePublisher
WebWorks ePublisher offers the fastest and most efficient way to publish your technical documentation and other content. On average, we reduce the time it takes to modify and republish content from weeks to just a few hours. We are trusted by individuals, small and medium businesses, and Fortune 500 companies alike — enabling them to publish hundreds of thousands of sophisticated PDF, help, HTML, and other Web files each month. Our customers give us strong reviews because our product allows them to deliver the most reliable and efficient workflow for

Publishing in an Agile World

Posted on: January 4th, 2010

As I mentioned in my post on December 1st, here at WebWorks we are talking to more and more people who are adopting an Agile software development model and as a result wondering how they can adapt their content publishing model to suit.

To help answer that question I have put together a short white paper on “Publishing in an Agile World” that I hope will help answer some of those questions, and in particular show how using ePublisher three stage workflow, of DESIGN. CAPTURE and APPLY, can make the task even easier.

You can find a copy oif the white paper on SlideShare

Publishing in an Agile World

View more documents from WebWorks .

Or if you prefer just sens me an email at aporter@alanjporter.com and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.