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14Jun
2013
Brackets Sprint 26 Build Released

The Brackets team has announced the release of their Sprint 26 Build. This release includes a redesigned status bar, improved file management, and numerous community contributions.

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14Jun
2013
ColdFusion Position In FL

One this week:

  • CITM (Jacksonville, FL) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 3 years of ColdFusion experience (including using CFCs), familiarity with Fusebox or other frameworks, and strong relational database skills. Send resume to Aaron Birnbaum at CITM Services.

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12Jun
2013
Blast From The Distant Past

Someone just sent me this link they have discovered, the original spec for vCalendar, The Electronic Calendaring and Scheduling Exchange Format Version 1.0, circa 1996. Contributors include representatives from all sorts of organizations (many long gone) including AT&T, Attachmate, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Lotus, Novell, Netscape, ON Technology, Oracle, Starfish Software, and more, and contributor #14 on the list is yours truly.

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11Jun
2013
Geoff Dowd Shows Off Mighty And Napoleon

Geoff Dowd, Adobe XD's Design Lead, gave the Engadget folks a closer look at Projects Mighty and Napoleon which we debuted at MAX last month.

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10Jun
2013
Brackets Community Translated Into Japanese

Cool to see that the community translation of Brackets is going strong, and that the Japanese is marked as 100% complete. (I guess it helps that there were 379 strings to translate, compared to as many as tens of thousands in other products). Nice!

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