Here’s a nice post by Jane Wells (yes, the one of WordPress fame) about the requirements for WordPress 3.2 and some rationale about the system changes being implemented for the latest version of the blogging software. The big news is actually not that big: the version of Oracle’s [ORCL] MySQL database and the PHP engine [...]
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A new security/fix version of WordPress, 3.0.5, has been released today, as mentioned by Andrew Nacin. While it may seem like a small release, it provides some useful security patches that all WordPress systems should have.
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The situation concerning the open source projects previously maintained by Sun Microsystems has been slowly degenerating since the company’s acquisition by Oracle [ORCL], and it would be nice for a better understanding about what is still “what” after this past year of consolidation… especially when it comes to the vast array of Java-related projects. If [...]
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Oracle,
Sun
As mentioned by Matt on his blog, Automattic has taken the big leap into domain-registrarhood. Since WordPress.com and Automattic are inexorably tied to the blogging experience, as witnessed by the myriad of blog and blog-like sites built using the WordPress software and also hosted at the eponymous WordPress.com service, it is natural that Automattic eventually [...]
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If you have been following along about the upcoming PHP and MySQL upgrade requirements for WordPress, you may have wondered, “Hey, is my WordPress site ready for the upgrade?” There is a way to tell (more-or-less conveniently): try the Health Check plugin for WordPress. While the description for the plugin declares that there will be [...]
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As many of you know, WordPress depends upon a variety of software packages to do the things that it does, as a weblog product (and some of you have extended it even further…). Two of these things are foundational items: PHP, the language and operational runtime for WordPress, and MySQL, the persistence datastore that WordPress [...]
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PHP,
programming,
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words would a video (and even one that is available in HD format, too) be worth? Resolve this quandary for yourself, and watch this video on the new features in WordPress 3.0, which is now available.
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Buying games, playing games, doing good– all at the same time? Is it true that gamers can be the Ones to Save the World? Well, if the Humble Indie Bundle ignites a whole flood of gamer-initiated philanthropy, then maybe so… But for now, there are certainly some impressive statistics gleaned from the Humble Indie Bundle [...]
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A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join the ASF [...]
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ClearCase,
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CVS,
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SCCS,
StarTeam,
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