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New Admin Bar Design
via WordPress.com Blog by Matt Thomas on May 05, 2008
Today we launched a redesigned admin bar, the handy toolbar you see at the top of every WordPress.com blog when you’re logged in. We’ve retired the old flat blue look in favor of something that better matches the swanky new WordPress.com dashboard.Here’s a before and after view:The new admin bar is designed to command less attention — the previous blue bar had a tendency to clash with...
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Yahoo’s Black Monday Begins With Shares Down 20 Percent.
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 05, 2008
How black will today be for Yahoo’s shares? Following Microsoft’s withdrawal of its takeover offer on Saturday, shares of Yahoo took a 20 percent hit after the market opened this morning, opening at $23.02 (from Friday’s close of $28.67) but then started to edge up. That’s still well above the $19 per share that Yahoo was trading at when Microsoft originally made its offer three months...
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Five knifed amid city 'disorder'
via BBC News | UK | UK Edition by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Five people are treated for knife wounds after a major disturbance in the centre of Leeds.
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Performance Considerations for Siebel Development
via Siebel Unleashed by neel on May 05, 2008
A really nice post contributed by a member of Siebel Unleashed forum. This can act a checklist while working on performance related problems. Here is excerpt from the postPerformance Considerations for Siebel DevelopmentIn custom configuration and scripting there are areas where performance can be an issue. It is common that these performance issues were not detected during build and unit test...
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Paul Gascoigne in hospital again
via BBC News | UK | UK Edition by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne is admitted to hospital after police are called to an incident at a hotel in west London.
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PHP 5.2.6 Released
via CMS Report by Bryan on May 03, 2008
The PHP development team started the month of May with the release of PHP 5.2.6. With over 120 bug fixes, this release is mainly focused on stability. There are however several security enhancements in PHP 5.2.6:Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.Fixed security issue...
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Twitter as a blog promotion tool
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on May 03, 2008
Back on April 26th I wrote a post outlining an experiment that I was going to try here at WinExtra. One of the parts of the experiment was to stop using Twitter as a way to announce new posts and rely strictly on them being announced automatically on FriendFeed.I wanted to see if indeed doing this would see any serious reduction in readers dropping by. I was more than willing to accept the cost...
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Google Reader Gets Serious About Shared Items
via Official ReadBurner Blog by adam on May 06, 2008
... to (1) a lot more people sharing (2) a lot more items being shared and (3) a greater diversity of sources and types of stories since you can now share any web page. We’re really glad to see the GReader team paying attention to users and what they want, and excited about the implications of these new features!A few more details and minor updates are available on the Google Reader team blog.
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Moving to Unicode 5.1
via Official Google Blog by Karen on May 05, 2008
Posted by Mark Davis, Senior International Software ArchitectGoogle has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1, less than one month after it was released. It's now available in search, so people speaking languages such as Malayalam can now search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1.Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows...
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Rockstar Bloggers Couldn't Save NewsAlloy
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 02, 2008
RSS development powerhouse Volodymyr Danylyuk emailed users of his nearly 3 year old AJAX feed reader NewsAlloy today to let them know that he's closing up shop. While offering to sell the property at a bargain basement price, Danylyuk told users of the once groundbreaking service that it was time to export their OPML files and go home.NewsAlloy is a story of one plucky engineer coming up...
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