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Release announcements, version previews, security advisories, and the occasional detour — written by the team building Blesta.
Blesta 2.1 is in development and adds Windows support, bringing the billing software's simplicity, productivity, and power to Windows machines for the first time.
Blesta 2.0 introduces two developer standards: no PHP short tags and XHTML Strict templates, plus template versioning that flags incompatible templates in the admin area.
A tongue-in-cheek take on GoDaddy's .mobi domain marketing, which claims mobile devices need .mobi to browse when phones have reached .com sites for years.
Blesta 1.4 preview: a dynamic integrated order system with clickable order forms, drop-in form templates, and per-user language selection for the interface and emails.
How to write custom Blesta import scripts: extend the AbstractImport class in PHP 5 and call import library functions, with a ModernBill invoice example.
Blesta's open-source import library moves data from any file or database into Blesta, including credit cards, so switching billing applications is fast and painless.
An introduction to SVG, the W3C's XML-based vector graphics standard: how it scales without quality loss, gzip compression as SVGZ, and CAPTCHA uses.
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