Server software provider, Wowza Media Systems, has made available its Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength solution.
The media server is designed to make it both ”painless” and cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to customers.
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A data breach at The University of Florida’s dental school last month has left the private information of 333,000 people in jeopardy, according to reports on ITBusiness.ca.
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IT management software developer CA has announced that its Data Center Automation Manager has new features that help enterprise IT organizations and cloud computing providers deliver, scale and manage dynamic computing resources.
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Subsidiary of Newtek Business Services and a provider of Windows-based web hosting, CrystalTech Web Hosting, will be attending the Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco, California, being held through November 19th.
CrystalTech, a long time Adobe partner and ColdFusion hosting provider’s representatives will attend many of the conference’s hands-on labs and sessions, covering design and development topics relating to Adobe products such as Creative Suite and ColdFusion.
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Technology firm and web hosting provider, Sun Microsystems, Inc., has introduced the new GlassFish Enterprise Server V3 Prelude solution, as well as a preview of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 application.
According to the company, GlassFish has surpassed 14 Million downloads and 225,000 registrations worldwidem becoming one of the most popular open source application servers. The Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, was developed as a lightweight web application server based on a modular OSGi architecture. A new preview of the upcoming Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE) features, is also available.
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The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from the profile screen. As we prepare for RC1, Ben and Verena will be revising a couple of their icons so that both sets will use the same metaphors, creating the colored “on” states, and creating the larger size of each icon for use in the h2 screen headers. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to select from so many great options, and would like to express again our appreciation for all the designers who participated in the contest. Thanks also to the more than 3700 people who completed the voting survey and took the time to weigh on on the individual icon sets.
| Q.18 Which one of the sets do you think we should use as a basis for the 2.7 icons? | ||
| Icon Set | # of votes | % of votes |
| BD | 1285 | 35% |
| VS | 1080 | 29% |
| GB2 | 424 | 11% |
| OSD | 376 | 10% |
| LS | 300 | 8% |
| GB1 | 235 | 6% |
The wide lead of BD and VS made it clear that voters had a clear preference for these sets.
| Q.20 If you could choose a runner-up, which would you choose? | ||
| Icon Set | # of votes | % of votes |
| VS | 916 | 27% |
| BD | 647 | 19% |
| LS | 522 | 16% |
| OSD | 488 | 14% |
| GB2 | 462 | 14% |
| GB1 | 331 | 10% |
WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total):
If you have already installed Beta 1 or Beta 2, you can update to Beta 3 via the Tools -> Update menu. If you have problems, or if this is your first time in the 2.7 beta ring, you can download and upgrade the old fashioned way.
Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface. Over a dozen icon designers from around the world responded, so rather than choose just one, we decided to turn the icon design assignment into a contest so that more people could participate and the community could have a vote in what the new icons should look like.
Once we decided to go with a contest format instead of a single-designer gig, about half the original volunteers changed their minds. The remaining designers each submitted two icons (Posts, Links) in their proposed style. At this stage a couple of designers were thanked for their submissions but eliminated from the competition because their icons were considered too far afield from the WordPress visual style. The remaining designers were given feedback on the icons they had submitted and given about a week to complete the icon set for the menu as well as the list/excerpt icons that are shown on the Edit Posts screen. All but one of these designers finished a complete set, giving us five sets in total.
So now we need to choose a direction. For each of the icon sets, we’ll show you the set itself, the designer’s introduction, and some feedback from the lead developers. After you’ve reviewed all five, place your vote for the set you think has the visual style that is the most suitable for WordPress 2.7. This will be followed by additional votes on specific icons, so if you like the specific image used in one set but like the style of another, you can vote to change the metaphor for a given icon. You’ll also be able to leave general feedback throughout the voting process. When voting has concluded, we’ll review the comments and the votes, and will declare a winner.
Things to bear in mind when making your selections:
A week is not a long time to create 13 icons. The winning set will undergo a revision to be refined, and some icons may be substituted. We asked for all icons in grayscale for the contest. An “on” state and a larger size for screen headers will be designed by the winner. It seemed like too much work to have everyone do multiple states for so many icons.
Ready? Go and take the icon survey. Voting will remain open for 48 hours from the time of this post to allow people from all time zones a chance to participate before we close the survey and make a decision (since we’d like to include the new icons in Beta 3).
A Note Regarding the 2.7 Release Date:
As we approach Beta 3, bug tickets continue to be added to Trac, the pain of making things look good in IE6 continues to be felt, and the need to improve accessibility looms. If you love WordPress, are a decent coder, and want to contribute like these icon designers contributed, please consider contributing a patch to help with one of these efforts. Jump right in on current Trac tickets, or pop into the #wordpress-dev IRC channel to ask what to do.
WordPress 2.7 Beta 2 is ready. Here is a quick rundown of changes since beta 1.
If you have already installed beta 1, you can update to beta 2 via the Tools -> Update menu. Beta 1 does have a bug in the automatic upgrade that breaks certain setups, so be prepared to download and install Beta 2 manually if you experience problems.
There have been a lot of posts and twitter announcements by people checking out the WordPress 2.7 Beta since it was announced yesterday. What’s your favorite thing about 2.7 so far? Or if you haven’t made the leap yet, to which feature are you most looking forward? Tell us in the poll below.
What is your favorite feature in WordPress 2.7?
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If you have a extra minute or two, we’ve also put together a survey that lists all the new features and allows you to rate them, as well as give additional feedback if you’re so inclined. If you want to participate, take the 2.7 Beta Favorite Features survey.
