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Ning allows you to create your own web 2.0 widgets. Cool. I think. Or at least, fun to say. PHP developers can customise the internals as much as they like, whereas everyone else can clone other peoples' projects and customise the externals to suit their needs. Apparently this
What is Web 2.0? A very good article (brought to my attention by Sven Edge), which lays out the essence of new-style web applications.
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We've released Elgg v0.301 in order to fix the bugs causing problems at the start of the week and add a couple of usability features. Our internationalisation isn't quite complete - it's been pointed out that on some systems the dates don'
Have a big, pink bunny.
Writely is a cross-browser (except Safari for some reason), AJAX, collaborative, tag-enabled wordprocessor. It's pretty fantastic from what I've seen so far, and opens the door for a pile of similar products. I would imagine we'll see a browser-based Microsoft Office within a year.
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... Seb Paquet's icon cracks me up every time. "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!" happy sigh Thank you. The technical director will now return to his hole.
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I love using the admin panel. There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing exactly how many users and communities you have on a system, finding out who's pottering about (although it won't tell me what you're doing, privacy fans), checking out how
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Inevitably for such a large release, there have been a number of bugs spotted. These are all very minor, but put together may affect your Elgg experience - therefore an improved Elgg v0.301 will leave the building before the end of the week.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present for your delectation and enjoyment: {{file:1459}} Elgg 0.3 final release This is still undergoing testing prior to a proper upload on Eduforge, but I'm uploading it in the hope that a few people will download it and give us their feedback.
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These rainy autumn (is it really autumn already?) days are really conducive to sitting down and doing some serious work - which is just as well, because I've had not a small amount to do. I've got these great overhead desk lights, and my room feels
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One of the problems with the RSS feeds is that, for security reasons, they only syndicate public objects. We'd love to change this, but an issue is how do you authenticate an RSS reader into Elgg? It won't remember a set of cookies, and I'
Dave and I have now been collaborating on Elgg for what seems like forever - unbelievably, it's only been around 18 months. However, the amount of work we've put into it, the thought and time, designs and redesigns, ideas and conversations have basically been our worlds