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It’s been 15 years since the “Design Patterns” were highlighted, including the acceleration was driven with the book “Design Patterns – Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Design Pattern is a design engineering software to solve recurring problems. This concept is widely used throughout the Web languages like PHP.
The site InformIT conducted an interview with the authors of the book above: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm and Ralph Johnson. The interview will cover these last 15 years of current use on various existing platforms

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Wordpress.com’s blog announced that now the plugin VideoPress supports Ogg movie format. You can now embed HD-Quality videos.

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As technology advances, mobile devices are playing a bigger role in our lives. Thousands of you have been using the iPhone and Blackberry applications to post and edit content for your blog, and over 60 million page views a month of WordPress.com blogs have been on mobile devices. New smartphones do a great job with most web sites, but older phones have many problems and may not display anything at all.

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As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible.

The WordPress team as released the 2.8.5 version of WordPress 2.8 branch. They recommend you to scan your full site with the WordPress Exploit Scanner, because an exploit may be on your site.

The headline changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
• Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
• Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

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Display Your Photos In Style

The Wordpress.com’s team loves photos, and they decided to update the Wordpress.com’s blogs photos template.

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The CRON tasks allows you to execute scripts automatically. Many ways exists to do that but this can make some server’s low performances, especialy connections to the mySQL server.

However some rules exists to elimintate some basics errors.
The blog MySQL Perfomances shows an optimised approach to avoid to surcharge it with an exemple in PHP.

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Today I was looking for a client’s bug when I found a very cool plug-in for WordPress. The plugin’s called TinyMCE Advanced adds a lot of new feature in the WordPress’s TinyMCE.

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The blogs under WordPress.com have now a new feature they can enable. You can now automatically publish your wp posts on your Twitter account.

To enable this, go to “Dashboard -> My blogs admin page”

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The Wordpress team has worked hard for a few months on the verison 2.9 of Wordpress. The beta is now available for testing. They’re requesting help for finding bugs and debuging the new features.

The wp-testers mailing list
Wordpress Beta Tester (plugin)
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Just a few days after the onset of a demo version of Gentoo 2010 (the date of the tenth anniversary of the Linux distribution), developers of the program made the final version available (which is very close to the incomplete milling submitted last week).

The main updates to this edition:
Système :

• Kernel Linux 2.6.30
• Support de l’accessibilité dans Speakup 3.1.3
• BASH 4.0
• GLIBC 2.9
• GCC 4.3.2
• Binutils 2.18
• Python 2.6.2
• Perl 5.8.8

Environnements de bureau :

• KDE 4.3.1
• GNOME 2.26.3
• Xfce 4.6.1
• Enlightment 0.16.8.15
• OpenBox 3.4.7.2
• Fluxbox 1.1.1
• TWM 1.0.4

Navigateurs :

• Firefox 3.5.3
• Arora 0.7.11
• Opera 10
• Epiphany 2.26.3
• Galeon 2.0.4
• Seamonkey 1.1.17

Bureautique et graphique :

• OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
• G/Vim 7.2.182
• Abiword 2.6.4
• GNUCash 2.2.9
• Scribus 1.3.3.11
• GIMP 2.6.4
• Inkscape 0.46
• Blender 2.49a
• XSane 0.996

Communications :

• Pidgin 2.5.9
• Quassel 0.5
• Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.23
• Claws Mail 3.7.2
• Ekiga 2.0.1
• Qtwitter 0.7.1
• irssi 0.8.13

Multimédia :

• Amarok 2.1.1
• MPlayer 1.0_rc4
• DvdAuthor 0.6.1
• LAME 3.98.2
• FFMPEG 0.5_p19928
• GNOME-MPlayer 0.9.7
• SMPlayer 0.6.6

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