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The new release of WordPress 3.0-RC3 is bringing some cool improvements to the most popular blogging platform. This includes UI changes, addition of a new default theme – Twenty Ten, and most of all – custom post types and custom taxonomies.

Here is a complete set of major improvements.

• Choose your Username and Password
• New Default Theme!
• Custom Post Types
• Multi-site Capabilities and WPMU Codebase Merge
• Custom Taxonomies
• Easy Menu Management
• Custom Author Templates

Remember the old age (not far behind… just few years ago) where you had to type a whole bunch of codes just to add a new row to your HTML table ? I’ve almost forgotten that era with the convenience added through some of these libraries.

The Javascript Libraries That Shape The New Web

Bad news for web designers and developers.

According to the most recent data from California-based Web metrics company Net Applications, 27.2% of all Internet users are still running IE6, making it the most popular version of IE. By comparison, IE7 accounted for 23.1% of all browsers in action last month, while the newest edition, IE8, had a usage share of 12.5%.

Friends don’t let friends use IE6

Earlier this week, Google posted on how to make PHP performance better as step of their campaign to “make the web faster”, but has given some noteworthy tips (such as avoiding SQL querying within a loop) as well as some insignificant ideas.

This may have been ignored if it was published in some other source, but since it’s endorsed by Google, PHP community has taken a special interest and rebuffed some of these so called tips.

A Note on Google’s So-called Best Practices

Make the Web Faster – Google groups

PHP performance tips from Google

The new WordPress version 2.8 “Baker” represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements would seem to be the ability to,

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets

There’s a popular misconception when it comes to Rails development that it can’t scale. However, in reality you could perfectly scale any Rails app, if you apply the correct techniques. Identifying these best practices have been tricky, since it involved lot of trials and errors.

Today Greg Pollack, of RailsEnvy fame, has done a great favor to Rails community by releasing free 13 part screencast series (currently 5 episodes are out) on Scaling Rails. So next time when someone tells “Rails can’t scale” you know the answer.

Michael Ivey blogs his workflow of using Git, could be useful for any
team using Git. -
http://gweezlebur.com/2009/01/19/my-git-workflow.html