Fabrizio Balliano

I haven’t seen any news out there so I think it’s really useful to make you all know that a new Ubuntu Desktop Course has been released, it’s written on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, here’s some link you may like:

• Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 – for students
• Ubuntu Desktop Course 8.04 – for instructors

I can imagine what you’re thinking… Ubuntu 9.04 is already out, why this course is about 8.04? I actuallly don’t have an answer but having a course for a LTS is really important and anyway training structures cannot handle the effort of updating all the materials and instructors every 6 months, just my 2 cents.

Enjoy :-)

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We’re approaching P4A 3.4.0 release, we need your help making P4A a little more famous, you can do a lot for our project, click the following banner and nominate P4A for the “best tool or utility for developers” category.

Thank you so much!

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Magento announced today an Enterprise Edition, reading the “compare editions” page I see that all these features will be included only in the Enterprise Edition:

• Advanced Administrator Roles and Permission Restriction per Site (Website and Store View)
• Logging of Administrator Actions
• Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)
• Customer Store Credits
• Content Staging and Merging. Support for both on-demand and scheduled merges and rollbacks of content
• Category View and Purchase permissions per on customer group (limited catalog access)
• Private (Club) Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions
• Strong Data Encryption

So I assume that Magento community edition won’t ever have all of them.

Can we still call it a platform for growth? Sure, but not in the free software ecosystem.

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Changelog:

- P4A_Table’s image cols are now centered horizontally
- P4A_Button::setTooltip() and getTooltip() methods were added
- afterupload event typo was fixed
- P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::renderToFile() method was added
- P4A_Mask::getSource() method was added
- Zend Framework was updated to 1.7.7
- a bug with P4A_Fieldset theme was fixed (thanks to Mario Spada)
- P4A_DB::singleton() DB type verification is now case insensitive (bug #2643785) (thanks to BES)
- a few modifications were done on screen.css file for a better theme result (thanks to pbond81)
- The way we managed P4A_Validate translations was rewritten to fit the new rules by Zend Framework (we need your help translating the new messages)
- a bug with P4A_DB_Source::setWhere() method was fixed
- translations were synchronized
- auto file inclusion system was updated to avoid reading Mac hidden files
- a bug with P4A_DB_Source::addGroup() method was solved (internal syntax change due to a Zend Framework change)
- p4a_load_js() javascript function was updated to avoid errors if no callback function is passed

Download P4A 3.2.2

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Changelog:

• Zend Framework was updated to 1.7.4
• PEAR::Net_Useragent_Detect was updated to 2.5.0
• jQuery::form was updated to 2.19
• P4A_DB_Source::setQuery() now strips out final semicolon from the passed SQL query (if present) (bug #2557215)
• P4A_DB_Source::setWhere() now calls a firstRow() if the DB_Source isn’t in the “new row” state (bug #2316271)
• P4A_Filename2File() now uses the fileinfo module if no mime type is detected otherways (bug #2121565)
• a bug with P4A_Field::getAsDate() and Internet Explorer was fixed (thanks to Mario Spada)
• P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::setWidth() now resets the max_width to avoid conflicts
• P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::setHeight() now resets the max_height to avoid conflicts
• P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::setMaxWidth() now resets the width to avoid conflicts
• P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::setMaxHeight() now resets the height to avoid conflicts
• P4A_Thumbnail_Generator::processFile() height/width calculation was
  rewritten in order to fix bug #2270922

Download P4A 3.2.1 now!

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* Package:
* every uck-* binary file now has a man page (docs/man)
* no need to remove the debian/ dir from upstream tarball
* uck-* binaries moved from /usr/share/uck to /usr/bin

Download it

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Today is a great day for our beloved project Ubuntu Customization Kit reaches the 2.0.7 version (there are only a few minor changes to the packaging so you can leave the update behind) but, most of all, thanks to the work of Alessio Treglia, UCK has been uploaded to the Ubuntu’s Universe repository for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04!

This is a great leap ahead for UCK, we’re about to reach millions of Ubuntu users who’ll be able to install UCK directly from their package manager, without having to download it from UCK’s website!

go go go!

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I know, I’m a little bit late with this post, hope you’ll excuse me but I’m really out of time in these weeks :-)

Last week we rolled out the new version of the Ubuntu Customization Kit, named 2.0.6, containing some bugfixes, hey we’re about to enter Ubuntu’s Universe repository, that’s a big step for our beloved project and we’re working with the Ubuntu team and Alessio Treglia to make it happen!

So step into the official UCK 2.0.6 release announcement to know the changes and download it!

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Do you want to remaster the Ubuntu ISOs? Here you have the tool you’ve ever wanted :-)

In this release you’ll find a few minor bugfix but we’ve been working with a great guy (Alessio Treglia) to make UCK enter Ubuntu’s “universe” repository, we’ll keep you up to date about this wonderful goal!

Changelog:

* GUI:
* UCK version number fix

* Backend:
* uck-remaster script now outputs UCK version
for a better debugging
* minor fix to download-gfxboot-theme-ubuntu
(thanks to Alessio Treglia)

* Package:
* minor fixes to uck.desktop (thanks to Alessio Treglia)
* some license/copyright issues were fixed (thanks to Alessio Treglia)

Download Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.5.

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Kevin and I released the new fantastic version of the UI Layout plugin for jQuery, changelog:

* RENAMED raisePaneZindexOnHover ==> showOverflowOnHover
* REMOVED "overflow: auto" from base-styles. Overflow must now be set by
CSS - unless applyDefaultStyles==true. No longer need "!important" to
set pane overflow in your stylesheet.
* CHANGED minSize default from 50 to 0 (still auto-limited to 'css size')
* FIXED bug in allowOverflow - now works with 'custom paneClass'
* EXPOSED two CSS utility methods
o myLayout.cssWidth( elem )
o myLayout.cssHeight( elem )
* NEW auto-resize for ALL layouts on windows.resize
* UPDATED auto-resizing of panes after a container-resize
* NEW flow-code to prevent simultaneous pane animations
* NEW options to add text inside toggler-buttons
* NEW options for hotkeys - standard (cursors) and user-defined


Hungry for new capabilities demos? check the powerful nesting and the droppable portlets demo

So now go directly to jQuery UI Layout official website for documentation, download and DEMOS!

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