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Here we have it, our first month with all the new entries to the WordPress theme stage being designed responsive. That was faster than we had estimated. But, we won’t complain. Bootstrap is also continuing to go strong, while minimal design still rules. Administering theme options from a backend options panel is becopming more and more common. Theming is getting easier by the minute. For another month we went out into the wild to search for the newest and coolest WordPress themes available. In the following article, we introduce you to our findings.
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I was born and raised a Muslim in America, and nine years old when New York lost its Twin Towers. The next week, I started finding out that the men responsible for hijacking the four airplanes that marked that terrible day did it in the name of my religion. What happened that day changed the […]

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acidradio writes: "Somehow the SCCM application and image deployment server at Emory University in Atlanta accidentally started to repartition, reformat then install a new image of Windows 7 onto all university-managed computers. By the time this was discovered the SCCM server had managed to repartition and reformat itself. This was likely an accident. But what if it weren’t? Could this have shed light on a possibly huge vulnerability in large enterprise organizations that rely heavily on automated software deployment packages like SCCM?"

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Publisher Five Simple Steps seized to exist. Before they vanished, they took the friendly move to transfer all the rights on the books published back to their respective authors. Val Head, author of The CSS Animations Pocket Guide immediately put up a page on her personal blog and started to offer the guide along the lines of the "Pay what you want" model which includes getting it for free, too.
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The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.1.6 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.1.
MySQL Workbench 6.1.6 is a maintenance release and contains over 30
fixes and minor enhancements made since the original GA release.
MySQL Workbench 6.1
Introducing over 30 new features, this version has many significant
enhancements focusing on real-time performance assessment and analysis
from the SQL statement level to server internals and file IO. You can
see this from additions to the SQL Editor as well as new dashboard
visualization and reporting that take advantage of MySQL Server 5.6
and 5.7 Performance Schema, and enhancements to the MySQL Explain Plans.
Additionally Workbench 6.1 is leveraging work from various teammates in
MySQL Engineering by introducing a schema called "SYS" that provides
simplified views on Performance Schema, Information Schema, and other
areas.
Special thanks to the server optimizer team, server runtime team, and Mark
Leith.  For Oracle DBAs MySQL SYS is similar to the V$ catalog views, and
MSSQL folks its like DMVs (Dynamic Management Views).
MySQL Workbench 6.1 includes:
Improved drag and drop support in the Home screen and SQL Editor
Visual Explain 2. The Visual Explain feature was revamped and is now
easier to read and interpret. You can also get the traditional tabular
explain output from within the same interface.
Performance Dashboard. A graphical representation of some key statistics
from the server status, gives you a bird’s eye view of the status of key
server subsystems.
For advanced users, Performance Schema Instrumentation. A GUI for
configuring the Performance Schema in detail, for advanced users.
Performance Schema based reporting. Gives insight into the operation
of the server through many high-level reports.
New query result view. Get more information about queries you execute,
such as information about the fields in your result set and key performance
statistics from your query (timing, index usage, number of rows scanned,
joins etc).
Form Editor for resultsets. In addition to the result grid, you can now
edit records row by row in a form style editor.
Table Inspector. Similar to the Schema Inspector, view detailed
information from tables. A streamlined interface for creating indexes is also included.
Support for the Windows accessibility API and Windows high contrast
color schemes. A new high contrast theme has been introduced.
And more.
More than 60 enhancement requests and bugs reported by users have also been
addressed, providing performance, usability and stability improvements
across the board.
For the full list of bugs fixed in this revision, visit
http://ift.tt/LY4BAs For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://ift.tt/KKCsvd Download MySQL Workbench 6.1.6 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.6+, Oracle
Linux 6, Fedora 19, Fedora 20, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 or sources,
from:
http://ift.tt/KHX9aU In Windows, you can also use the integrated MySQL Installer to update
MySQL Workbench and other MySQL products.
Quick links: – http://ift.tt/1iWgUJK – Download:http://ift.tt/KHX9aU – Bugs:http://bugs.mysql.com – Forums:http://ift.tt/KKCsvd Enjoy!
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MySQL Workbench 6.1.6 GA has been released

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