This method of web design is becoming increasingly popular, and for good reasons. For those who don't see the technical beauty of the solution as good enough reason, there are significant business benefits as well.We've worked on migrating our projects to standards-based design since last December, and the results look quite good. The only major issue is the mark-up produced...

We discussed this trend some days ago with Torben, and came up with several points:Midgard 1.x is starting to show age. The framework was designed back in 1998Code quality in 1.6.0 alphas and in some major modules like Aegir is really badThe competition is getting tougherInstallation is still horribly difficultHowever, even despite of these, we decided there is no reason...

New default theme for Mac OS X, Pinstripe looks quite nice, as does the new Thunderbird logo.The Mac OS X downloadable required some manual renaming before it worked, but it seems to be fixed now.What remains to be seen is if the new version fixes the broken Offline extension.

This Vappu went according to tradition: we watched Havis Amanda get the student hat together with some Austrian exchange students, had a sunny picnic in Kaivopuisto and Vappu herring lunch in Ateljé.What we did first time this year was to outsource the picnic food production to a local Subway, so we could concentrate on more important (and usually Koff-branded) affairs.The...

This is a semi-public beta, in the way that the package can be downloaded by anyone, but we've invited some organizations to try it out. The software is available under GNU GPL.We're mostly interested in the following beta testing areas:Installation hurdlesConfusion with how to get startedPossibly new translationsTo get started with the OpenPSA beta test,Install MidgardInstall OpenPSALog into OpenPSA ManagerCreate...

Motiva is using the yamp-based staging/live scripts and the filesystem cache engine from MidCOM 1.2.x. The site is available in three languages: Finnish, English and Swedish.The server signature is also quite interesting:Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) Midgard/1.6.0/Repository/MultiLang PHP/4.2.3 MidCOM provides many nice new features for the site, including: Clean, pronounceable URLs"Edit this page" functionalityRSS news feedsNew site componentsThe site conversion from the old...

Daniel Carrera from the OOo team has posted a very good summary on the stories.IRC log: How open source projects can improve their PRGetting good PR for your Open Source projectThe Care and Feeding of the PressThis is very topical now that OpenPSA is going public on May 8th.

B2B websites must support a more complex buying process than B2C sites. Three key goals are to make a buyer's shortlist, offer a downloadable advocacy kit, and build a reputation for great service.

The solution was to use the convert utility from ImageMagick to automatically force all images to RGB color space. However, even after this the thumbnails I generated were ridiculously big (500KB instead of 4KB). After some investigation I noticed that some color profiles had been included to the image files. Again, convert was able to fix this.The options used here...

While many pieces of web software already support unicode and other character-encoding standards theoretically, their way of interoperating using them might be disfunctional.Freedesktop.org runs the Project UTF-8, a resource for advocating unicode support in Open Source software. Maybe OSCOM should also do something in this space.Joel Spolsky has published a short how-to on what every programmer should know about unicode....