ebook promo ‘high performance websites’

Posted in Web on September 1st, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

O’Reilly is running an e-book promotion today, where you can get ‘High-performance websites’  for under $10.

Use code DDHPW at checkout to get the special price.

It might be interesting to look at the different techniques to improve responsiveness, even if the book dates from 2007.

O’reilly deal on Google Analytics ebook

Posted in Geen categorie on August 20th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Voor sporadische Google Analytics gebruikers heeft O’Reilly een interessant aanbod vandaag op hun “Deal of the Day” site : Google Analytics (1ste editie) . Voor €7,80 krijg je de eerste editie van dit book in eBook formaat, waar wordt uitgelegd hoe Google Analytics werkt. Voor de Deal of the Day prijs, gewoon code DDGAE invullen bij de checkout. read more »

OpenSuSE 11.3 released

Posted in Linux on July 15th, 2010 by Administrator – 2 Comments

Vandaag laat het OpenSuSE project zijn nieuwste telg officieel los op de wereld. OpenSuSE 11.3 is eindelijk beschikbaar.

Nadat mijn laatste installatie, toen nog van 11.2, meer dan een maand na de release nog altijd tegen een knoert van een fout aanliep (Oudere AMD grafische kaarten hadden kuren bij de originele 11.2 release installatie – zie hier en hier), zal ik eerst wat de kat uit de boom kijken en deze keer niet voor beta-tester spelen.

Het ziet er allemaal heel leuk uit, en je ziet duidelijk dat de linux wereld aan het opgroeien is. De distributies beginnen meer en meer deals af te sluiten met bedrijfjes om bepaalde services mee aan te bieden.

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ImpressCMS Vision Published in Compass

Posted in impresscms on July 13th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

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.

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Big Buck Bunny Bloopers

Posted in Blender on June 14th, 2010 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

Blendernation heeft een video met Big Buck Bunny ‘Outtakes’, oftewel bloopers. Redelijk hilarisch, en zeker veel te kort. Dit doet me denken aan Jacky Chan films, waar al het gepruts in sommige scenes aan het eind van de film wordt geplakt, tijdens de aftiteling. In sommige films is dat ook het grappigste deel (sorry Jacky)

Truebones Motions 300+ Pak discount

Posted in Blender, Game Development, promo on May 29th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

Truebones is very proud to present the brand new ” Truebones Motions 300+ Pak”

This brand new discount upgrade offer consists of the very latest BVH motion paks created by Truebones Motions including:

  • “The Sexybones Womens Motions Pak” (over 130 BVHmotions ) and
  • “The BoogieBones Dance Motions Xpansion Pak” (over 170 BVH motions)

Now you can own over 300+ brand new high quality Truebones BVH motion captures for the ultra low price of only $29.00!

Sexybones on YouTube

Also included is a FREE BVH file previewer and a .vns profile for converting BVH to Iclone format.

To order the brand new “Truebones Motions 300+ Pak!”.  Just click this link.

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This special discount offer expires tonight, so be sure to take advantage of this spectacular savings today!

Sintel teaser released

Posted in Blender on May 18th, 2010 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

Blender project Durian (waar zijn de fruitsoorten gebleven?) heeft net zijn teaser trailer beschikbaar gemaakt. Dit zou een goed idee moeten geven van wat we mogen verwachten van deze kortfilm geproduceerd door het Blender Institute.

Het team heeft nu ongeveer 2 maanden over om dit ambitieuze project tot een goed einde te brengen, en de spanning is volgens het blog aan het stijgen. Deadlines in zicht!

ImpressCMS Trac migration to Sourceforge

Posted in impresscms on May 9th, 2010 by Administrator – Be the first to comment

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:

  • free or affordable for our budgets
  • Subversion
  • Trac

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 in 2010

Posted in Web on February 25th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

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:

  • field-testing new functionalities in plugins
  • New upgrade options for users coming from TB2
  • making the organisation financially sustainable on its own

Just like Matt, I would love to see an official Gravatar plugin this year.

Should We Upgrade ImpressCMS Core to jQuery 1.4?

Posted in Web on February 24th, 2010 by David – Be the first to comment

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 »