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juli 28, 2012
By Eileen Filed under CiviCRM

Slow pages are annoying and they can cost $$$. But improving performance often means re-writing chunks of code and is often expensive. Bad performance hurts us all. So the question is how can we improve it.

 

The main mechanism we have used in the community so far for banding together to fund these things is the MIH - the tricky thing for performance is framing the MIH in a useful way.

 

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juli 25, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the third beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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juli 24, 2012
By SarahGladstone Filed under CiviEvent, Extensions, Schools

I blogged a while ago about "Putting the R back in CRM" about the limits on relationships in the self-service areas.   Well I am happy to have an update.  I  (Pogstone Inc) have sponsored the creation of a new extension ( along with JMA Consulting).  This extension is taking advantage of the CiviCRM exte

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juli 22, 2012
By totten Filed under Architecture, CiviCRM, Interface and design

Brian Shaughnessy (lcdweb), who has been working with the New York State Senate's CiviCRM project, recently raised the issue of simultaneous editing: What happens when two users simultaneously make changes to same contact record?  We've held a few discussions on IRC to examine the issue and draft some solutions.  We would appreciate further feedback and ideas on how to address the issue.

The Problem

As described by Brian:

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juli 18, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the second beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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juli 12, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the first beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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juli 11, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

This is a security release. We strongly recommend that all sites upgrade their CiviCRM code to this release.

The team is excited to announce the fifth stable release of version 4.1  - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

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juli 10, 2012
By seank Filed under CiviCon

Here in the UK we're busying ourselves with organising our second CiviCRM conference, at Westminster Hub on the 19th September. You can read lots more about it here - http://london2012.civicrm.org,  and book early to benefit from the Early bird discounts now available!

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juli 8, 2012
By reperry Filed under Case studies and user stories

 

The Progressive Technology Project has compiled a list of scenarios related to doing searches from our groups’  support requests. We would like to put these forward as suggestions/modifications for Advanced Search or custom searches. Perhaps some have already been solved and are lurking quietly as custom searches that we just don’t have on our radar yet. Please share comments and reactions to these - have any of your clients needed something similar?

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juli 5, 2012
By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the fourth alpha release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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