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26août/100

Xmarks available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Xmarks LogoI'm sure that you know  Firefox's addon called Xmarks. It allow you to synchronize your bookmarks with other browsers (as Safari, etc.).
Now you can use it on you Apple mobile device to get your bookmarks and use them with Safari Mobile.

Available on the AppStore for $0,99.
I got it and I'm a fan !!

Source  : Xmarks official site

19août/101

HipHop for PHP – what now ?

6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.

The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.

Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.

Download HipHop

Source : Facebook's Engineering Note

19août/100

Facebook launches location-based service-shared “Places”

In a press conference organized by invitation in the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new geolocation service Facebook.
Dubbed "Places", it will enable users to share their social networking sites more easily and discover which of their "friends" are in the same region.

This service will focus on mobile devices from which the members can post and update their geolocation.

The social networking giant has played the cautious this time and included from the outset, control over the visibility of this information adjusted default to "friends only".Users can include friends with whom they are, and the information will be published following the same system used for tagging photos. Once a place "tagged", it becomes permanent on Facebook, although it may be deleted by the user who posted first.

If a trade or business, its owner can reclaim his property.
Zuckerberg did not specify how to control or planned administration in this case.

Facebook officials have explained that a comprehensive API for reading and writing research will be offered to developers.

This service can be integrated with third party applications.

The logo of the service, representing a "4" in a square (in English and Four Square), puts the rumors about the future of the Foursquare between acquisition, partnership or single glance.

Source : Facebook's blog

18août/100

Bye bye TYPO3 4.1 !

TYPO3 4.1 is officialy announced as dead.

So you're invited to upgrade to a newer version.

6août/101

TYPO3 4.1.15, 4.2.14, 4.3.5 and 4.4.2 announced

A small post only to say that 4 new versions of TYPO3 are available for download:

  • 4.1.15
  • 4.2.14
  • 4.3.5
  • 4.4.2

You can download packages here
Read the detailled post

5août/100

JavaFX 1.3.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1 for JavaFX available

There is not a lot of major features but a large package of bugfixes.

Read the release notes
Available on javafx.com

4août/100

Joomla! Community Magazine

The Joomla! Project proudly announces the August 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system.

Joomla! Community Magazine website

3août/100

Convert file to utf-8 on Unix based OS

A little snippet that I needed today. I didn't found what I needed so I wrote it.

  1. cp originalFile backupFile
  2. iconv -f fromEncoding -t utf-8 originalFile > originalFile

Cheers :)

2août/100

AndroidMarket rise above the 100’000 applications

The figure is more symbolic than historical. But it still reflects, among other signs, the success of Google's mobile OS, especially among the developer community.
According AndroLib, a company that has made a specialty of analyzing the Android Market, the gallery of the OS just to rise above the 100,000 applications.

The second is that the company includes in its assessment of applications (about 18,000) who have subsequently been withdrawn (including malicious applications that used the Android flaws revealed at Black Hat Conference for the last?).

The number of downloadable applications has substantially exceeded one billion.

An impressive figure which does not suffer him, no comment.

Source : AndroLib Report

30juil/100

WordPress 3.0.1 available

This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.

Download WordPress 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

Source : WordPress announce