Posted: 23 Nov 2012 01:00 AM PST

Collaboration is changing. Gone are the days of excuses for not collaborating, like "we work better in person," or "we're in different time zones." Technology makes it easy to work together. It's simple and it's free (assuming you have a computer, webcam, and internet connection).

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WordPress 3.5 Release Candidate

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 05:35 AM PST

The first release candidate for WordPress 3.5 is now available.

We hope to ship WordPress 3.5 in two weeks. But to do that, we need your help! If you haven't tested 3.5 yet, there's no time like the present. (The oft-repeated warning: Please, not on a live site, unless you're adventurous.)

Think you've found a bug? Please post to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. If any known issues come up, you'll be able to find them here. Developers, please test your plugins and themes, so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release.

To test WordPress 3.5, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you'll want "bleeding edge nightlies"). Or you can download the release candidate here (zip).

If you'd like to know what to ~~break~~ test, visit the About page ( → About in the toolbar) and check out the list of features! Trust me, you want to try out media.

Release candidate
Three point five in two weeks time
Please test all the things

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Teaching students to work on state of the art NoSQL databases

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 02:00 AM PST

In a recent post, I introduced an initiative, along with Dima Kassab, for teaching open source NoSQL databases. We collaborated to prepare course materials for three NoSQL databases to 22 students at the Informatics Department of SUNY Albany, and we made all those material available under a Creative Commons by Attribution License.