Blesta Wins Saasdir Award

Blesta won the April 2009 saasdir.com award for best Accounting / Financial software. Shiny. Check it out and share some vote love.

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Blesta in theWHIR

Blesta is listed in the online and print edition of theWHIR (the Web Host Industry Review) magazine’s January directory edition. It’s just a directory, but thought you might like to check it out, we’re on page 48. Anyone else notice the shade of blue they used on their cover closely resembles Blesta? Coincidence? Probably.

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Blesta for Windows

We’ve been hard at work on the next installment of Blesta (version 2.1) lately, which is looking to be our most feature rich update to date. One thing we’ve worked hard on is adding support for Windows machines. Finally, Windows users will get to experience what everyone else has come to love about Blesta: Simplicity, Productivity, and Power. Check back soon for more updates!

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New Standards for Developers

In an effort to increase future compatability with both browsers and PHP environments we’ve introduced two new standards in the Blesta 2.0 release.

Out with the old, in with the new. PHP short tags are out – That means all PHP code must be enclosed in <?php … ?> rather than <? … ?> XHTML Strict is in – All templates (.pdt files) must conform to the XHTML Strict standard (see w3c.org for more informationon on XHTML). What does this mean for me? When submitting templates, modules, gateways, or add-ons be sure to follow the above convention to ensure your contributions will be accepted into a future release of Blesta. If you don’t plan to contribute or distribute your work then of course you need not abide by these standards. Another addition to template creation is the introduction of template versioning. Each template directory will now contain a text file containing the version number (of Blesta) that the associated template files are compatible with. This will allow developers to ensure compatibility with specific versions of Blesta. The backend will still allow older templates to be selected in the Admin area, but will mark each outdated template with “(incompatible)”.

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GoDaddy.com and .mobi domains

I recently received an email from GoDaddy.com that I thought was hilarious. Apparently users with mobile devices can only visit .mobi domain names? Here’s the excerpt:

Imagine if customers could access your Web site even when they’re away from their computers… Having your own .MOBI domain can make that dream a reality. With .MOBI, anyone can access your site from their Web-ready cell phone or mobile device. Oh really? That’s funny because I’ve been visiting .com domains on my mobile since 2001.

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