Weekly Roundup - March 31st 2008

Posted March 31st, 2008 in Weekly Roundup

This is my weekly roundup for the week of March 24th to 30th 2008, where I look back at the posts I made over the past week as well as useful and interesting articles on other websites and blogs that I might have read. I was away on holiday over the last 10 days and didn't have any posts for the past week other than last week's weekly roundup.

Interesting articles found offsite

The list is a little shorter this week due to being on holiday. I quickly read through the masses of RSS feeds I am subscribed to on Sunday night and compiled a quick list of some interesting stuff from the past week, mostly software releases.

Adobe

Adobe released a beta version of Photoshop Express, an online version of Photoshop. Photoshop Express works with all major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari, requires an internet connection and Flash Player 9 to work and is based on Flex, Adobe's cross-browser plug-in technology for multimedia. Ars Technica has an article about this web based software, along with some screenshots, and in another article looks at issues with the EULA which Adobe needs to address.

Javascript

Kevin van Zonneveld posted a Javascript library containing 123 PHP equivilent to PHP Javascript functions.

Joomla

Joomla 1.5.2 was released and was a normal maintenance release.

Linux

Knoppix 5.3.1 was released and you can buy Knoppix from the Linux CD Mall.

Zenwalk Live 5.0 was released and you can buy Zenwalk Linux from the Linux CD Mall.

The head of the airline Virgin America was interviewed about using Linux to power their inflight entertainment system on CrunchGear.com.

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 was released containing a number of improvements.

PHP

phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.1 was released containing a security fix. Information about the security issue can be found here.

WordPress

WordPress 2.5 was released containing many new features and improvements.

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