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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Two new Google Mail announcements - contacts and security

August 14, 2008 – 12:32 pm

Now you can click on the [TO:] link in GMail to get your contacts. This was one of the most annoying missing features in GMail. Nice work.
Gmail supports easier access to contacts when composing a message
Google is also improving their Postini offerings with some very robust security features. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/web.html
This is great news for Google [...]

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Getting Ready for Ruby 1.9

August 12, 2008 – 10:37 pm

Ruby 1.9: What to Expect goes into some interesting language changes for the 1.9 release.   It is still in development, however there are changes and new features abound. I wonder how much adoption we’ll see, as I assume this is going to break a ton of popular gems and plugins out there.
My favorite bit:

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Google Apps adoption on the rise for colleges and universities

August 1, 2008 – 12:59 am

Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers
Back in May, Microsoft began offering hosted Exchange on college campuses through its Live@edu service — a move some saw as a direct response to Google’s success in the higher education market. Yahoo is also pushing to entrench its Zimbra email and collaboration desktop in higher ed. It’s [...]

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