Development by Davis: “Doing government websites right” plus 4 more

Doing government websites right
Education for the real world: Open course on open source noSQL databases
WordPress 3.5 Beta 3
AMD Receives HPCwire Readers’ Choice and Editors’ Choice Awards
AMD Delivers Massive Compute Performance for World’s Top Ranked Supercomputer

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 03:00 AM PST

Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website—Gov.uk—does a lot of things right.

I'd love to see more governments invest two of the key ingredients that made the website work—good design and better analytics.

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Education for the real world: Open course on open source noSQL databases

Posted: 13 Nov 2012 01:00 AM PST

Back in March of this year, the University of Albany Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) organized its second Open Source Festival. The event brought together enthusiasts of open source from industry, government, and academia in the New York-Albany area. There, I shared my experience of teaching an open source class at RPI and the work that OSEHRA was doing on further promoting the use of open source software in healthcare. Among other topics of discussion was the need to educate college students on the basic concepts of NoSQL databases.

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WordPress 3.5 Beta 3

Posted: 12 Nov 2012 08:26 PM PST

The third beta release of WordPress 3.5 is now available for download and testing.

Hey, developers! We expect to WordPress 3.5 to be ready in just a few short weeks. Please, please test your plugins and themes against beta 3. Media management has been rewritten, and we've taken great pains to ensure most plugins will work the same as before, but we're not perfect. We would like to hear about any incompatibilities we've caused so we can work with you to address them before release, rather than after. I think you'll agree it's much better that way. :-)

To test WordPress 3.5, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you'll want "bleeding edge nightlies"). Or you can download the beta here (zip). For more on 3.5, check out the extensive Beta 1 blog post, which covers what's new in version 3.5 and how you can help. We made more than 300 changes since beta 2. At this point, the Add Media dialog is complete, and we're now just working on fixing up inserting images into the editor. We've also updated to jQuery UI 1.9.1, SimplePie 1.3.1, and TinyMCE 3.5.7.

The usual warnings apply: We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but this is software still in development, so we don't recommend that you run it on a production site. Set up a test site to play with the new version.

As always, if you think you've found a bug, you can post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. Or, if you're comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on the WordPress Trac. There, you can also find a list of known bugs and everything we've fixed so far.

Beta three is out
Soon, a release candidate
Three point five is near

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AMD Receives HPCwire Readers’ Choice and Editors’ Choice Awards

Posted: 12 Nov 2012 12:00 AM PST

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today it has been recognized as a leader in high performance computing (HPC), receiving two awards from HPCwire: a Readers' Choice Award for 'Best HPC Collaboration between Governmen...

AMD Delivers Massive Compute Performance for World’s Top Ranked Supercomputer

Posted: 12 Nov 2012 12:00 AM PST

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today demonstrated its ongoing support for high performance computing by providing massive compute capability, performance and flexibility for the world's number one ranked supercomp...

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