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It might be interesting to look at the different techniques to improve responsiveness, even if the book dates from 2007.
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Today the OpenSuSE project unleashes its latest offspring to the world. OpenSuSE 11.3 is finally officially available.
During my last installation, 11.2 at the time, more than a month after the release, I bumped into some serious errors (older AMD graphics cards had issues in a vanilla 11.2 install, the so-called black screen error – here and here) I decided I wouldn’t be a beta tester this time and give it some time.
It all looks nice and shiny, and one can see immediately that the linux world is growing up. Many distributions are making deals with companies to bundle various services.
Every organisation should have a clear vision on what it wants to accomplish. Many organisations (companies, open source projects) make a written statement of that vision, to be used as the ultimate test when discussions arise.
The benefit of such a document is clear : every decision can be tested against it, to verify compliance with the end goal. After some internal discussion and fine-tuning, the ImpressCMS is proud to present its Compass to the world. This should give you an idea of what the project stands for, in case it wasn’t clear enough until now.
Blendernation has a video with Big Buck Bunny ‘Outtakes’ -- Bloopers. Quite hilarious, and much too short. This reminds me a bit of the Jacky Chan movies, where all the failed shots get added to the end. In some movies, that was the most entertaining part (sorry Jacky).
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Blender project Durian (what happened to the fruit names?) has just released its teaser. This should give you a good idea of what will be in this short movie produced by the Blender Institute.
The team now has just about 2 months left to finish this ambitious project, and the tension is mounting. Deadlines ahead!
After getting increasingly dissatisfied with the service from Codesion, ImpressCMS decided to switch to another provider. We had few requirements, and so we started searching for a solution based upon those:
We also thought of the possibility of doing the hosting ourselves, but that would mean an investment of time and effort, which would be unavailable for other tasks. Overall, we thought it was best to let specialized service providers handle that kind of non-core activity. read more »
Thunderbird has gotten some more visible momentum now that Thunderbird 3 has seen the light. Project lead David Asher has some more details on organisational topics for the year 2010:
Just like Matt, I would love to see an official Gravatar plugin this year.
Recently, jQuery 1.4 was released, with a maintenance release 1.4.2 a few days ago. In a move comparable to what we are doing with ImpressCMS release 1.3, the jQuery developers chose the jQuery 1.4 release to be a release focused on speed and cleanup of the codebase. Mostly, just cleaning up the codebase results in quite some speed advancements, so those two efforts are frequently combined.
The changelog for this latest release of the Javascript library mentions performance improvements in many areas : CSS methods, Attributes and many of the most-used functions. However, the changelog also details some backward incompatible changes with previous versions. These incompatibilities can be countered by installing this specific plugin. read more »
