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3fév/100

Joomla.org Down !

At this time, if you want to go to joomla.org, you get this :

Hope this'll be ok soon

25jan/101

WordPress Foundation

It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site. Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I’m excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010.
Go check it out for yourself.

22jan/100

Firefox 3.6 delivered !

Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support for a wide variety of Web standards, and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customize their browser to their liking.

What’s new in Firefox 3.6:

Below are some of the coolest features of Firefox 3.6:

  • Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
  • Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
  • Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software – all without sacrificing our extensibility in any way
  • Form Complete: When filling out an online form, Firefox suggests information for fields based on your common answers in similar field
  • Performance: Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time
  • Open Video and Audio: With the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 audio and video support, now video can be displayed full screen and supports poster frames

Source : Firefox's blog
Download link

22déc/090

TYPO3 v4.4 – “the last 20%”

The development of TYPO3 v4.4 has begun. Starting with TYPO3 v4.4 there will be fixed releases every six months. For this next version, the TYPO3 development will be focused on "the last 20%".

The development of TYPO3 v4.4 has now begun. For the next release, which is scheduled to be released in May 2010, the TYPO3 development will be focused on the "the last 20%" of the current feature-set to shape the rough edges around the package.

More details about release dates and up-to-date infos about the tasks can be found in the wiki page on the TYPO3 Forge.

The complete news

22déc/090

WP.com – 2010: A Theme Odyssey

After the video from the core team meetup was posted, the topic that seemed to get the most attention on Twitter and various community sites was Matt’s announcement that there would be a new default theme in 2010, so I thought I’d start with that as the first of the meetup summaries.

When Kubrick was bundled with core back in 2005, it was a cutting edge theme. Custom header, rounded corners, clean design… if you were using WordPress back then, let’s face it, you were impressed. Time moves on, though, fashions change, new styles become old standards, and what was once cutting edge suddenly seems old-fashioned and out of date.

Read the rest here

1déc/090

Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices

You're a mySQL developper, you should read this. Very interesting and usefull little tips to ehance your applications.

This post is written by Burak Guzel.

Read the post

30nov/090

cURL : 10 way to use it

cURL is a PHP extension to communicate easily with other web sites. Libcurl extension will allow you to perform operations that you do not always have to think like submitting forms.

Jean-Baptiste Jung suggests in an article 10 ways to use the cURL extension.
The issues addressed are:

  • Updating Facebook status
  • Getting server's loading speed
  • Connection with mySpace
  • Post something on your WordPress blog
  • Checking url availability
  • Post on Twitter
  • And many more...

Read the article

30sept/090

TYPO3 4.2.9 released

The TYPO3 Core Team announces version 4.2.9 of the TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System.

The official post

27août/090

Opera 10 Release Candidate available

The norwegian browser is back !
Although his breakthrough on the market of mobile surfing is more honorable, Opera barely beat out Internet Explorer and Firefox rival free (just 2% market share).

But Opera dont miss qualities, and its respect for the W3C RFC is very appreciated by the developers.

Download it : here
The press review : here

24août/090

Learning Javascript from PHP – Comparison

Nate Haug has published an interesting post on his blog.

It is a basic comparison between PHP and JavaScript. It's intended for users familiar with PHP and looking for JavaScript equivalents.

Read the full post.