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It seems that the standard WordPress 2.7 release will occur sometime around December 10, 2008, according to a comment that Lorelle tracked along a post over at the Blog Herald with a comment from Jane Wells about the eventual FCS date.
Remember Jane? No? Okay, check out her lil’ blog hosted at WordPress.com. You’ll notice something [...]

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False Alarm on WordPress 2.7

December 3, 2008 at 8:37 PM · 0 comments

in Social Software

Well, sort of…
Ryan remarks on his blog that, while WordPress 2.7 has actually been somewhat operating at WordPress.com already, the admin console will not be available until tomorrow (which is what Jane had said yesterday). Even worse, Ryan says that the FCS release for everybody won’t be available until “sometime next week”:
The final release of [...]

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WordPress 2.7 Release Imminent?

December 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM · 1 comment

in Social Software

Jane posted earlier today that WordPress 2.7 will be “coming to WordPress.com” in two days. Here’s an excerpt of the beginning portion of her post that will clear up some of the confusion:
As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 [...]

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WordPress 2.7 RC1 Now Available

December 1, 2008 at 10:02 PM · 1 comment

in Social Software

True, it’s not the FCS release of the product.
But WordPress 2.7 RC1 may now be downloaded, for intrepid WordPressers to try… to help test it before its official release as a finalized product.
This is encouraging news, especially given the recent coverage (like here and here) about its tardiness.

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WordPress 2.6.5 was released yesterday to address one critical security exploit and three additional bugs.
The major security issue: there appears to be an interesting quirk that manifests as a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that impacts Apache 2.x IP-based virtual hosts.
As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.6.5 once they learned of [...]

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Jane says that WordPress 2.7 development is rolling along fine, but the original November 10, 2008 release date has been pushed back toward the “end of November” (2008).
In light of the upcoming (and there’s no reason at this time to believe otherwise) WordPress 2.7 release, Javamancy will not be undergoing any vast middleware or back-end [...]

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Now that I’ve been bouncing around the NXE for awhile now, what’s the ballyhoo about?
Last month, I mentioned the major points that were expected from NXE. And yes, those points are present in the release. But are these items the end-all, be-all of gaming console updates?
Er… no.
Microsoft Agent Technology
The Xbox avatar subsystem is a decent [...]

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Xbox LIVE’s NXE Now!

November 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM · 2 comments

in Gaming, Services, Social Software

Lo and behold!

Firing up the Xbox 360 this afternoon caused the immediate downloading of the install package for the New Xbox Experience (NXE) that we’ve been covering, followed by the updating of the system…

The new UI is, as previously mentioned, extremely reminiscent of the now-famous Windows Media Center. And, if you’re like me, you can [...]

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NetBeans 6.5

November 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM · 0 comments

in Java, Software

It’s been awhile in coming, but it’s finally here: NetBeans 6.5.
Like many of you, I’ve been itching to have a plethora of development capabilities integrated into a single unified interface that does not require me to constantly scour the Internet, or several different vendors’ sites, or even just constantly ping around various different “repositories”, for [...]

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Where Art Thou, NXE?

November 15, 2008 at 6:36 PM · 2 comments

in Gaming, Services, Social Software

It’s coming.
That’s what’s being stated on the Xbox 360 Dashboard for several days now (actually, a few weeks).
The New Xbox Experience (NXE) is headed to connected Xbox 360 consoles on November 19, 2008. All things are pointing to an on-time launch; there has been quite a few announced outages (both big and small) that will [...]

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