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After a lengthy Beta cycle, Mozilla has made available the first Release Candidate for Firefox 3.  I’ve been on the beta for several months now, and with the RC1 release we can be reasonably certain to see a full release of Firefox 3 before the summer is out.
Download FF3Rc1 today!
Image Credit: nitot on Flickr

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Wordpress 2.5 is out, warts and all, for public consumption today.  Many users are opting to wait for a burn-in period to take place before taking the plunge.  Several major updates from Wordpress have had a point-release take place within days, usually to fix a security flaw.
I have installed it on the sandbox where I’m [...]

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Recently some of you may have noticed some instability with the theme on this blog. The theme on the blog seemed to reset to the WordPress default without any rhyme or reason. I assumed it was one of the many plugins I had installed to try to provide additional content or functionality [...]

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Well after a far more successful 2007 than I could have imagined, I’ve released the first significant feature update to the Admin Links Widget.
First, THANK YOU to everyone who has downloaded the widget.  It has been downloaded an astonishing 2300 times since the inaugural release on August 14th of last year.
The most significant changes for [...]

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After the post I did a couple of days back about FlickrFight using images and not attributing them to the photographers who took and own the images, I thought it might  help to actually point to some of the things that FlickrFight is doing.
First off, they’re not copying the images, they are getting them from [...]

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I’ve always been a bit of a stats monkey when it comes to… well pretty much everything.  I like to know how many there are, how long it takes, how much it costs.  I want the numbers.  But more than that, I want accurate numbers and often times in the past trying to get accurate [...]

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced yesterday that they have acquired the Open-Source database platform MySQL. This is a huge purchase and one of the largest acquisitions of an Open Source entity that we’ve ever seen.
The goal, says Schwartz, is to put a Fortune 500 vendor behind the innovative technology powering many next generation web-based [...]

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Bil Simser has posted an article on his blog about the release of the source code for the original SimCity under the GPL. The GPL’d version has been renamed under the original working title Micropolis to protect the trademarks of Electronic Arts who currently own the intellectual property for the Sim* franchise. If [...]

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I’ve just put the finishing touches on the latest version of the Random Image Plugin that I originally released in the summer.  This plugin will allow you to produce an <IMG> tag containing a randomly selected image from a folder of your choice on any wordpress page (or post if you allow php).
The two biggest [...]

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I’ve been running a Linux machine at the house for some time now, experimenting with trying to use it for a central file server where I can get at things like music and pictures from any of the computers in the house, and in some cases from over the Internet.
I’ve tried using various incarnations of [...]

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