A release candidate is out for WordPress 2.3.1. It seems like only yesterday that I installed Wordpress 2.3. These type of updates for bug fixes are typical and, in my opinion, actually a good things to see. WordPress 2.3.1 will be fixing over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:
Last weekend, both Linux Today and Linux.com provided links and excerpts to an article I posted here at CMS Report. You can see some of the stats on my newly quantified site at quantcast.com.
This story from InfoWorld shows that crime doesn't pay.
After a thief stole a printer for making driver's licenses, his call to the manufacturer's tech support line requesting driver software lead to his arrest.
The story then goes on to say that although the thief had stolen the computer connected to the printer, the computer "was locked with a key". I wonder if that was a key for a physical lock on the case which prevented the computer to boot up or an authentication key card? The latter, of course, would have been much more difficult to bypass.
I was really surprised not only find out that Joomla! 1.5 is going through a third release candidate, but will likely be followed with more release candidates. In most projects, the release candidate is a nearly-done final product where the only thing left is to make sure all the i's are dotted and all the t's are crossed. Not so with Joomla! 1.5.
Johan Janssens's writes in his post, "Is Joomla! 1.5 RC3 really a release candidate?":
Another Generation Y (Generation Next) in the workforce has been written. This time the article is at Infoworld and titled, The Generation Gap Challenges IT Managers.
The gap is widening, with more workers stacked at both ends of the age spectrum. There are approximately 80 million Baby Boomers, those born roughly between the years of 1946 and 1964, and 70 million in Generation Y, born 1978 through the present, but only 60 million in the middle in Generation X, those born 1965 to 1977.
There is only one week left to vote for the CMS finalists in Packt Publishing's Open Source Content Management System Award. If you haven't voted for what you think is the best open source CMS, I would encourage you to vote. In my opinion, you should vote even in those categories where your favorite CMS may not have made it through the public nomination process. Remember, not everyone is that sold on open source content management systems. In other words this award, and those like it, is a chance to help newcomers find the best of the best in open source CMS.
The voting results should really be very interesting this year with five finalists to choose from in each of the five categories. The five categories in the Packt award are Most Promising, Best PHP CMS, Best Other (Non-PHP) CMS, Best Social Networking CMS, and Overall Winner. The five finalists in the Overall category include CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla!, and PHP-Fusion.
Since I'm needing some time to figure out how best to use the Drupal contributed Advertisement module, I've decided to promote via banners each of the five CMS finalists in the Overall CMS Winner category.
Last week, I mentioned that Mozilla is planning to give the Firefox browser a makeover. Alex Faaborg had mentioned that they plan to integrate the look of Firefox with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X. The problem was Alex had failed to mention anything about the Linux operating system. Linux users, of course, then replied by comment that they were unhappy that there was no mention of Linux in the post.
CMS Made Simple 1.2 has been released. In their announcement, the project indicated being pleased at the number of people that participated in the beta cycle participated in the beta cycle helping to help make CMSMS 1.2 a stable released.
Last month, we reported some of the improvements and new features we thought you could expect in CMSMS 1.2. Below is list listing of changes as worded in the official announcement of the 1.2 release.