WordPress 2.7 codename “Coltrane” has been officially released. If you already using 2.7 RC1 or RC2, upgrade to official release is a breeze… just go to Tools>Upgrade. If you are still in 2.6.5 or older, just using previous method, the “Three Step Upgrade” which can be found at codex.wordpress.org.
WordPress 2.7 Screenshot
As usual, before upgrade, please back-up your blog and don’t forget to go to WordPress.org to check compatibility of your theme & plugins. While you are there, also please go to blog post writen by Matt to read more about the story behind WordPress 2.7.
WordPress 2.7 almost come to live. With release of Release Candidate 1, this new version is now in final development stage before official release. For those who try the 2.7 Beta version, they should already know about new UI admin panel, especially vertical navigation vs horizontal navigation in current 2.6.x version.
In This RC1, admin panel even come with new menu icons created by winners of recently WordPress icon design contest. And of course there are bugs fixed for all known bugs from last Beta 3 version.
As this is not official release version, I advise you to use it only for testing or for your wordpress themes/plugins developtment purpose. For the production use, you should use the stable version, currently version 2.6.5. If you have already installed beta 3, you can update to RC1 via the Tools -> Update menu. Previous Beta version does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install RC1 manually if you experience problems.
Habari is another free, opensource blogging platform. Like WordPress, it’s written on PHP and supports by various database system like MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL. Current Version is 0.5.2 which was released on October 17, 2008. Claimed by it community as “next-generation blogging”, Habari require latest version for most of it’s component like Apache 1.3x or higher where v2.x is recommended, MySQL 4.1.x or greater and PHP 5.2 or above.
If you’re a web designer or graphics designer, reference sheets or cheat sheets are very useful to make your jobs done smoothly and faster. These days, with a rapid development of softwares/applications and web technologies, we have to use many applications to make great design. Thus, there are impossible for us to remember all the commands, code syntax or shotcut keys for each applications or softwares.
So, here comes the cheat sheets to rescue us. While browsing the net searching for some tutorial to make my own WordPress theme, I came across to a blog posted about this useful cheat sheets. There are two post, one is about cheat sheets for front-end web designer which includes 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).
Another one is, 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics.
Take a look at these posts and I’m sure either you’re newbie or seasoned web designer, you’ll thankful for those beautiful & very useful cheat sheets.
This Tuesday, T-Mobile will launch Dream, a phone made by HTC which is first Google phone or to be exact the phone that running on Google’s Android software. Android is the first complete, open-source, and free mobile platform. It is develop by a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies called The Open Handset Alliance.
Eventhough the launch will end the long-awaited introduction of Android base phone, some experts said it not likely won’t be accompanied by the mad rush that surrounded Apple’s introduction of the iPhone. Researchers from Strategy Analytics are predicting that 0.4 million Android phones will sell in the fourth quarter this year, making up 4 percent of the smartphone market share in the U.S. In comparison, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones in the first quarter the phone was on the market, although the iPhone was for sale for a full three months and the Android phone will only likely sell for two months before the end of the year. While T-Mobile is planning a launch event on Tuesday, the phone is not expected to become available until as late as the end of October.
The 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exclusive “Executive & Entrepreneur” conference beginning September 19th. The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld features the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business. If you are currently blogging, vlogging, podcasting, producing other forms of new media content, entering the new media industry, or just want to know what the blogosphere is all about, then you need to be at the most comprehensive blogging convention–BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109.
WordPress 2.6.2 was released today and contains few bug fixes. Ryan from WordPress Blog explained,
“If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.”
Even though I’m not enable open registration on my blog, I already upgraded to this latest release to keep my wordpress blog up-to-date cause there are also contains a handful of bug fixes. To see the detail, check out at http://wordpress.org/development/.
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