Stendhal is a multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system. It features a rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves, and dungeons. You will meet NPCs and acquire…

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The eZ Components team is proud to announce the release of the 2008.2.2 version.

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OpenCms Days 2009 will take place from Monday, June 15 to Tuesday, June 16 in Cologne, Germany.

The complete conference program for OpenCms Days 2009 is now available at the conference website. The program features 19 sessions with numerous high-profile speakers from all over the world. OpenCms Days 2009 will be the largest event for the OpenCms community this year.

Update: The complete conference program is now available for download as a PDF file.

Register your ticket now – only a limited number of seats are available!

Regular conference registration price: 200,- Euro

Using OpenCms to cut costs in times of recession

This year’s OpenCms Days motto is "Using OpenCms to cut costs in times of recession". Analysts agree that a way to reduce IT costs is using Open Source Software. OpenCms certainly is a viable option to reduce IT and web marketing costs, and the 2009 conference will focus on this issue.

Be there to meet and mingle with leading OpenCms experts such as core developers, experienced consultants, executive decision makers and other OpenCms users.

OpenCms Days 2009 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Business and Technical sessions:

• Business track sessions will emphasize on cost saving opportunities using OpenCms, as well as best practices, industry discussions and management decision making insights to OpenCms projects.
• Technical sessions will be targeted towards developers and show cutting edge OpenCms developments that can be included as "ready made" components in your next project.

At the OpenCms Days 2009 conference expo, OpenCms solution providers will exhibit their OpenCms business solutions and enhancements.

OpenCms Days 2009 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.

OpenCms Days 2009 conference and expo is an event organized by Alkacon Software GmbH. The goal of the event is to promote OpenCms and strengthen the OpenCms community.

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This is the third prerelease for ELinks 0.12. It fixes several
crashes and other bugs. There are no real new features here.

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We are nearing the end of March which has been a very eventful month. In this edition of the eZ Community Newsletter we will discuss the release of eZ Publish 4.1, the eZ Publish Webinar, the eZ Publish French Community, and an article about object states. As always, this newsletter includes the regular Forum Watch, a summary of bug reports, and some interesting new contributions.

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A book about OpenCms 7 is now available in stores. The book has been published by Packt Publishing.

Titled OpenCms 7 Development the book has been written by Dan Liliedahl. Dan is a well known member of the OpenCms community and has been activly developing OpenCms solutions for many years now.

From the book description on the Packt Website:

OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions.

Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.

Starting by showing how to set up a development environment for OpenCms work, the book moves you through various tasks of increasing complexity. Some of the common tasks covered are building OpenCms, XML asset type development, templating, module development, user and role setup, and search integration. In addition to these common tasks some more advanced topics are covered such as self-registering users, RSS support, developing custom widgets and extending the administrative interface. All the topics include examples and are presented while building a sample blog site.

OpenCms 7 Development by Dan Liliedahl is now available in bookstores everywhere.

The book can also be ordered as an eBook from the website of Packt Publishing.

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May 8th 1999:

The Midgard Project has finally released the first public version of Midgard Application Server Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a PHP3-based web application server for the Apache platform and the needed web-based administration tools.

May 8th 2009:

It’s time for celebration – Midgard CMS turns ten in May! The decade of Midgard will be celebrated with a guest gala that is to be held at restaurant Ostrobotnia in Helsinki, Finland.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you in the party as possible! Please register ASAP as we need to tell the restaurant how many tables are needed.

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After a nice 2008 in France for eZ Publish where several Developer Days have been organized, the french community keeps growing and initiatives like
www.ezpublish-france.fr or
www.planet-ezpublish.fr ("ze french corner") demonstrate vibrant and good momentum in France. An half-day meeting will be organized April 9th for the french community of users and developers.

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Trying to stick to our seasonal release schedule, we have put out NEW 09-APR-2009 bitweaver2.6_RC2.zip. To see what’s new, see the ReleaseTwoChangeLog. Please download the zip, or at least beat on the test server and let us know of any issues.

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This version of Midori has a focus on optimizations below the hood. The most important point here is that from now on, you need at least WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1, GTK+ 2.10, Glib 2.16 and libsoup 2.25.2. Lots of tricks to maintain compatibility were dropp…

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