Here’s some exciting news on the Orlando Coworking front. CoLab Orlando is on the verge of opening in the historic Angebilt building at Orange and Wall St. Etan Horowitz at the Orlando Sentinel got a tour of it today and posted a pretty thorough piece on it. They plan to open it to the general public in September and looks like it might be $250 per month to set up permanent shop in the space. Day passes will likely be $25, but all the prices are still up in the air.
Now this is cool. Media Temple, in partnership with Parallels, is going to soon be offering XServe virtual hosting with the ability to scale up to a full XServe’s worth of power and server resources. Offering everything an XServe has, including serving multiple web sites (including built-in wikis and blogs, whatever that means), iCal Server, Directory, and Time Machine backups - I’m hoping that it will prove to be useful for small group ware work and personal site hosting.
Bonnier Corp, my current employer, allows us to host the Orlando PHP Meet-Up group at our offices. It was recently resurrected after a year or so of lying dormant.
For the month of June we are going to be staging a ‘Code Shoot Out’ between 4 of the most popular development frameworks for PHP: CakePHP, Zend Framework, Symfony, and Code Igniter.
The idea is simple: Each developer, who is already familiar with the framework they are using (in order to remove the learning curve all frameworks have from the equation), will take the same MySQL schema and create the same application with it. This way we the strengths and weaknesses of each framework could be compared in a relative way, instead of absolutely.
If you’re interested in attending, sign up and RSVP as soon as possible, as it is filling up quickly.
This may be the biggest upgrade to WordPress since the jump from 1.5 to 2.0. There are numerous changes on the front-end and the back-end. The admin panel has probably seen the most radical changes, as it has been completely redesigned from the ground up. And they redesigned wordpress.org to boot! So that’s why it took 6 months for v2.5 to come out…
A quick round up of the new features:
Multi-File Uploading
Upgrade Plugins with a single click
Photo Galleries
A Dashboard you can Customize
Salted Passwords and Encrypted Cookies to increase the security of the project
A Media Library of all your uploaded assets
A WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess up your code (zomg!)
Protection against Concurrent Post Editing
Writing in Full Screen Mode
And a search engine that covers both posts AND pages (long the domain of a plugin)
You can read all about it in the official announcement.
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