Date April 2008

Drupal to Wordpress springtime migration

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Apr 23, 2008 11:16 am
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If you’re reading this post, you’ve noticed that we recently migrated our blog system out of Drupal into Wordpress. This is the first step in our initiative to decentralize our various web properties and replace them with loosely coupled systems. Our aim is to make it easier to publish information and increase transparency into [...]

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Songbird singing on OpenSolaris

By stevel stevel Apr 18, 2008 1:25 pm
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updated: added links to SPARC builds!
Anyone who knows me knows that OpenSolaris is near and dear to my heart, so I was really psyched when Alfred Peng started porting Songbird over to OpenSolaris. For all the nitty gritty details, check out bug 7800 to see the code review, patches, and comments flying back and [...]

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Nightlies now come with… Nightly Tester Tools

By stevel stevel Apr 18, 2008 9:47 am
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For anyone running the 0.6pre nightlies or building from trunk and grabbing the first run bundle, you may have noticed we’ve started serving you fresh baked Nightly Tester Tools Add-on with ‘em (originally written by Mossop over at Mozilla with a few lines contributed by us to port it over to Songbird).
We thought it made [...]

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ars technica on ianloic on songbird

By stevel stevel Apr 16, 2008 10:07 am
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ryan over at ars technica blogged about ian’s talk @ LUG Radio Live this past weekend where ian talked about the need for a user agent (ahem, Songbird) for the media web.
ryan seemed to grok things spot-on with accurate critique as well as understanding the premise of what we’re shooting for. i like that [...]

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Blessed 0.6pre Builds are Rockin Da Nest!

By jleger jleger Apr 14, 2008 1:11 pm
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Songbird QA has blessed the first set of stable 0.6 builds with the latest nightly development code. A primary focus of the 0.6 release is improved performance when importing media and sorting large playlists. Some of these code updates have landed in these blessed builds.
We encourage any/all to download the build and send [...]

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