New version of P4A (3.2.0) finally released!

Posted on December 31st, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

Wow, it’s been a while since the developers updated this framework.  I thought this project was about to die because it used to be very active.  We’re actually still using v2.0 at work (which is working very well) but with the changes in this release, I think it’s time to upgrade .

Here are the major changes (from the developer’s website, the one I’m most excited about is the P4A_Grid widget):

1. P4A is now released under LGPL 3. This means more flexibility for developers and customers.
2. A new widget, the P4A_Grid, has been added to fast table data editing.
3. P4A_Simple_Edit_Mask has been added to quickly create a simple mask to edit a database table.

You can view the entire changelog here.

Download P4A 3.2 from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98294&package_id=105252&release_id=647599

Internet Explorer Emergency Patch

Posted on December 17th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

Microsoft just released this patch early today.  It’s supposed to patch a very serious vulnerability in IE and some security analysts are even suggesting to use a different browser until the vulnerability is completely patched.

If you’re using WSUS it should already be available, we synchronized our WSUS server early this afternoon and set a deadline for it to get it installed on all our computers as soon as possible.

Read more about it here.

Should you switch to open source software?

Posted on December 8th, 2008 webmaster No comments          Print

Here’s an interesting article from CIO.com explaining the benefits of switching to open source solutions.

As IT costs grow and the economic crisis puts pressure on global IT budgets, open source becomes irresistibly attractive to developers and IT decision makers who are being asked to do more with a whole lot less. Meanwhile, proprietary vendors react by increasing license fees by 15 percent to 45 percent, they continue to lock-in their customers, and they take away independence regarding choice and flexibility across the enterprise technology infrastructure.