WordPress 3.0 this week?

On the 25th of december 2009, Jenifer Wells, who works with automattic, published “Setting Scope” on WordPress.org. In her article she summarized how the development process had been before and how it was going to be for next release WordPress 3.0. To sum up the development cycle was going to be a lot more focused than previously and the core team were going to make a development plan before starting the process. As a part of the process they asked the WordPress community which features and enhancements they would like to see in WordPress 3.0. This resulted in 186 suggestions from the WordPress community, and some of the suggestions I found very interesting.

I have been following the development of WordPress 3.0 with excitement. It is evident from the developer site that developers are working hard to get WordPress 3.0 done.

When the feature freeze for development came 1086 tickets had been accepted into the next release of WordPress. (more…)

Tags: 3.0, features, Menu, Release, WordPress
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Google Wave – first impression

I was so lucky to get an invitation to try out Google Wave, so I thought I would share my impressions.

First of the layout looks very similar to any regular e-mail inbox. However, the difference quickly becomes evident as soon as I started navigating around this new idea of communication.

Google Wave is the first serious attempt to get ridge og the old fashion e-mail system.

My first thoughts on waveing was that it is quite cool. It seems to me that it combines different kinds of communication from which it brings the best. In a way waveing (when you send a mail using Google Wave) is at best comparable if you imagine you self to be sitting with whomever you communicate with but instead of talking you would be write on the same document. (more…)

Tags: features, Google, wave
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