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Joomla! Community Workgroup Report – August 2010 –
The Community Workgroup Teams were busy as ever during the month of August. Below are the reports rounded up from the Community Workgroup Google Group. [Link]
As many of you know, in late 2009 it was decided by OSM and the project leadership to contract with Andrew Eddie and Louis Landry and to pay them for working on the Joomla! project. This was a very big step and was only undertaken after much discussion and careful consideration. There was strong agreement in the OSM and project … [Link]
Who said becoming a Registered JUG was easy? –
Who said becoming a Registered JUG was easy? WE DID! New, Easier Application Process for Joomla User Groups The JUG team is proud to present a new and improved system for JUG applications. After a short interim period using a temporary relief system, the entire process was restructured from the ground up to provide a more streamlined approach to all … [Link]
Punto Informatico
Una recente genia di codice malevolo si conquista le cronache per la sua virulenta capacita' di propagarsi via posta elettronica. Il worm ha colpito le corporation statunitensi ed e' al momento sotto stretta osservazione [Link]
eBay: contro Craigslist, per Craigslist –
Sentenza favorevole al sito di aste online che ritorna in possesso del 28 per cento delle azioni del sito di annunci. Con la possibilita' di riottenere un consigliere [Link]
Microsoft diffonde i dettagli dei fix che si prepara a rilasciare il prossimo 14 settembre. Il buon vecchio Windows XP ruba quasi tutta la scena al piu' giovane Seven [Link]
Slashdot
Mega-Volcanoes Might Be Detectable On Exoplanets –
astroengine writes "Could we detect a huge volcanic eruption on an exoplanet 30 light-years from Earth? Possibly, say scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. What's more, there may be an opportunity for us to spot the ashy pollution ejected into the exoplanetary atmosphere when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is launched in 2014. According to Discovery News, this would … [Link]
PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account –
epee1221 writes "Markus Persson, a.k.a. Notch, the developer of Minecraft, posted on his development blog today that PayPal limited his account with unspecified cause on August 25th. Since then, payments for the alpha version of Minecraft have continued accumulating while Notch has been unable to withdraw them, and the account now contains over €600,000. PayPal recently told him it may … [Link]
World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia –
An anonymous reader writes "Medical Daily reports: 'Video conferences may be known for putting people to sleep, but never like this. Dr. Thomas Hemmerling and his team of McGill's Department of Anesthesia achieved a world first on August 30, 2010, when they treated patients undergoing thyroid gland surgery in Italy remotely from Montreal. The approach is part of new technological … [Link]
Wired Top Stories
Nambu: New Twitter Client Rocks the Mac Desktop –
This free Twitter client for the Mac is a lot like its popular competitor, TweetDeck, except it lets you manage multiple accounts and it’s not based on Adobe AIR. Nambu also has nifty organizational features, persistent searches and support for groups. Still very much a beta, but we love it. [Link]
Zero Takes Electric Motorcycles to the Street –
Having proven its technology works in the dirt, Zero Motorcycles wants to show it works in the city, too. [Link]
Boxee Brings Back Hulu by Adding a New Browser –
A new alpha release of the broadband video software for AppleTV welcomes content from Hulu.com back into the mix. Boxee's developers add a new web browser based on Firefox, enabling it to show any web-based video content. There's also a new API so outside developers can add whatever services they'd like. [Link]
WordPress News
WordPress Trademark Changes Hands –
The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation. Moving forward, the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out if a resource is “official” … [Link]
After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress 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 … [Link]
PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement –
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now … [Link]
