Finally, after nine years of intense development, the Perl community has something to be happy about. Patrick Michaud, lead developer for the Perl 6 implementation on Rakudo, announced in a journal entry for use Perl the release of an intermediate version for Perl 6 in the spring of 2010.Even if it is not a complete implementation of all the initial language specifications, this release has been log awaited by a community that has endured a development marathon, seeing this problem bounce around from Larry Wall (the creator of Perl), the Parrot project and now the Rakudo development team.A common name into all these stages has been Patrick ... [read more >>] The developers of WordPress, the popular open-source blogging platform, have just announced the release of their latest stable version, WordPress 2.8, codenamed “Baker,” which is now available for download right here. This is an evolutionary release but it does bring a number of new features and updates. Visually there aren't too many changes, which actually may be welcomed by many as the dev team has been known to make big modifications especially to the admin panel between releases. Many improvements are under the hood and WordPress is now faster than ever, with changes to the way it handles style and scripting. One of t... [read more >>] There was a time when webmail struggled to gain users' attention, but no more. It has become a standard and everybody has at least one inbox to check periodically. The undisputed leaders of the market, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, have shared the market leaving little room to a new competitor. And yet GMX managed to sneak in offering its users a bunch of options unavailable in the aforementioned webmail titans.Global Mail Exchange (GMX) brings a lovely AJAX interface and ease of use to satisfy any home-users' needs. According to the holders of the service 11 million members enjoy the benefits and functionality of the webmail. And jud... [read more >>] Adobe announced today the availability of a Photoshop upgrade, Lightroom 2, which offers some new features that make photo post-processing and working with pictures easier. One of the enhancements Lightroom 2 brings is the dual-monitor support, which makes manipulation and management of photographs much more convenient. Moreover, this is Adobe Photoshop's first application to run on a 64-bit platform.Another feature related to the handiness of the new product is the Library Filter Bar, which allows an efficient display of the searched images. Suggested Keywords, another feature that comes with Lightroom 2, offers suggestions on what th... [read more >>] | 
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