04/03/2010 - New developments in the creation of newsletters and group emails
04/11/2009 - Tag clouds
Do you know what tag clouds are? They are visual representations of a webpage's tags or keywords.
27/11/2008 - The Ab·core Platform Heightens Its Accessibility
19/02/2008 - Latest Improvement of the Ab·core platform: a step forward in security and access to information
From one side we have been busy enhancing the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of the data base. The HAL is a group of functionalities that allow programmers to access clear and easily the database of the operative systems. Therefore, it is very critical, as most of the applications draw upon the database for some information. With this improvement, we get to reduce in a significant way the response time in most of the accesses to the database.
Another task that kept us busy was security. We have added a CAPTCHA control in the Forum service, as it was being exploited by some organizations to upload undesired adverts, with the resultant image problems for the organization, but also for the rest as they were consuming considerable resources from the system.
In the coming days we keep working to refine improvements in the abstraction layer, and keep monitoring the servers.
05/11/2007 - New functionality: RSS Feed Injector
This functionality help us define data flows that automatically will add news to our categories.
The processor interprets the news feeds, but also podcasts, videocasts and photo flows. We have successfully tested it already with sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Flikr.com or BBC.
07/08/2007 - Forms Updated
We have just presented an innovation featuring enhanced layout and control for our forms service. This innovation is meant to correct some mistakes on the previous version.
In this new version, you can decide -for each user- whether or not to send a confirmation of the information received by e-mail. For this, is it essential to have the surfer's e-mail address.
Many of these innovations are introduced by our dear friend Evan Silverman at UnitarNY.
Thanks Evan!
27/07/2007 - Summer improvements
When the summer time arrives, the majority of people opts to ‘migrate’ to cooler environments, take a little bit of free time, relax,... But in Iwith.org we have a tradition: a bunch of crazy programmers lock ourselves out with no phone, no email, and no distractions, and we star to implement, enhance and design enhancements and services for the Ab•core platform.
That’s how “La Plataforma” was born, on summer 2001, and, since then, each year we repeat the tradition, and on these dates we try to do enhancements and changes that, during the year, because of work, professional life or simply because of lack of time, we are not able to do.
This summer we are working on the user management interface’s design, and adding the concept of extranet user. If you are interesting in knowing what is this, keep reading...
09/07/2007 - Now you can manage your events better with the improved Ab·core Platform
10/06/2007 - News articles on your website now able to accept comments
Ab.core is the iwith.org programme that brings the Internet services (web pages, e-mail, volunteering agents, virtual communities, etc) closer to the organisations.
For more information visit our website:
http://www.iwith.org

