I admit it. Hieraki didn’t get the attention it deserved. Ever since I agreed to make typo public its momentum prevented me from putting any considerable effort into Hierkai. A share really because there are several high-profile Hieraki users out there.

My name is Alexander Horn, student at Truman State University. Several months ago, I adopted parts of Hieraki to add on new features that we needed for a learning object repository. Some of those features are:

• attachments for documents
• version control for documents and attachments
• security model (a simple one but it does the job)
• some tweaks to the navigation and the look-and-feel in general
• finding dead links
• and several other new concepts or improvements… If you want to download the source (which still needs a make-up and much more testing) go to here

I was blown away. Alexander took Hieraki exactly where I wanted it to go. And not only that, he agreed to overtake stewardship of the project and merge back Noc as Hieraki2.

Its really great to see that Hieraki is again moving forward. Its a great project and extremely useful. Now we just need to make rails apps easier to install. Stay tuned for more on that after the 1.0 release :)