Matt from AutoMattic announced on the WordPress.org blog today that they are spotlighting some of the theme creators that have decided to move their companies inline with the GPL:
To celebrate a few folks creating 100% GPL themes and providing support and other services around them, we have a new page listing GPL commercially supported themes.
As Jeffro points out over at WPTavern:
The links do not contain affiliate code and as Ptah Dunbar pointed out on Twitter, the links and images are randomly generated upon page load as to not give any individual site more credence over the other which is a great move.
Kudos to Matt for recognizing these great companies that have realized the benefit of GPL and how it can work in the business world.
Posted in WordPress.
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.
Further details about the PHP 5.3.0 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.
[from PHP.net]
http://php.net/namespaces
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Piding 2.5.8 Released
More fixes for Pidgin this weekend, here is a breakdown of what is new:
- ICQ
- Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
- MSN
- Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!
- MySpace
- Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
- Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM’s web client.
- Yahoo
- Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
- Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
- Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
- Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
- The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.
- XMPP
- Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
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Head on over to http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ and get a copy of the new Microsoft Security Essentials. It is still in Beta and you are required to register and take a short survey before being able to download the exe. If the exe is not protected in any way I am sure it will show up for download through the torrents later today.
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Tagged with anitvirus, Microsoft, security essentials.
Hey TMobile users with G1s, hit up the Market and you can download Qik, the video streaming app! It instantly streams your videos from your phone to the internet!
Hopefully you have 3G, I just tested in SLC where we only have EDGE and the refresh is super slow, pretty much unusable, but I hear on 3G things are smooth.
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Tagged with 3g, qik, tmobile, video streaming.
Pidgin.im
Pidgin 2.5.6 had a few bugs, most notably the Yahoo! Protocol 16 support bug. So the folks at Pidgin rallied this one and brought out version 2.5.7 this weekend.
Here are the changes:
- Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up.
- Only display the AIM “Unable to Retrieve Buddy List” message once per connection.
- Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
- When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don’t get network ID’s for them.
Happy IMing!
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It’s been kind of busy over with the PHP teams, releasing back to back versions of PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x.
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Posted in Code, PHP.
Tagged with PHP 5.2, PHP 5.2.10, PHP 5.3, PHP 5.3.0, PHP 5.3.0RC4, PHP.net.
Songbird 1.2 has finally released and it is looking great! New features, and performance enhancements are really bringing Songbird into it’s own category when we talk about Open Source Media Players.
Songbird 1.2 focuses on improving library management and provides full integration with iTunes, in case you want to live in both worlds. Here is a list of the new features:
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The folks over at HP have really set out to impress with the new HP Pavillion Elite m9600t. This machine screams with power. Intel core-i7 920 processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, a 750GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive , and Blu-ray writer & Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner, 1GB ATI Radeon 4850 video card, Vista with SP1, wireless networking, what isn’t to love about this system?
HP Pavilion Elite m9600t
We ran a battery of tests including Cinebench, 3DMark06, and OpenSourceMark. In each of the tests the machine ran remarkably well. You can read the numbers yourself below. One thing we do around here at Utahcon.com is that we actually sit down and use the machines we are sent as if they were our workstation for the time we have them. This gives us a chance to really use the machine and make sure we find any little quarks the machine might display. This really is the big difference between our review and say the review at CNet. So let me share with you the experience I had with the m9600t.
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Posted in ATI, Desktops, HP, Hardware, Intel, Manufacturers, Monitors.
Tagged with ATI, Blu-ray, core-i7, Desktop, Elite, HP, Intel, m9600t, monitor, Pavilion, Radeon, RAID, Vista, w2338h.
Pidgin.im
Our good friends over at Pidgin have dropped a new version, 2.5.6 go get it now! Here is a list of the changes:
- libpurple
- Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
- Fix various crashes on exit.
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