This week, Zimbra held a Zimbra Administration Course at the Yahoo! headquarters in Santa Clara. For those who don’t know, the administration course covers just about everything in Zimbra from A to Z. I had the opportunity to lead the first two days of the basic/general sessions of the training course. Attendee’s learned everything from […]
And The Winner of the Browser Wars is….
With Zimbra 5.0 we’ve introduced some newer ways to make the user experience faster with the Zimbra Web Client. We’ve talked about Jetty, YUI compression, and Lazy Loading, but now there’s just one burning question: Which browser is fastest? There’s some amazing JavaScript handling enhancements about to be pushed into the major browsers. In-case you […]
Browser War – Part 3: Safari 3.1.1 & Nightlies
Firefox 2 took on FF3RC1, Internet Explorer 7 took on IE8b, so who’s duking it out in round 3? Safari 3.1.1 vs SF nightlies. Some might be thinking it seems like a shorter gap in browser versions – why not Safari 3.0 through 3.0.4, or even 3.1 to show greater self improvement? First, we opted […]
Browser War – Part 2: IE7 vs IE8b
Round 1 covered Firefox 2 vs 3RC1 and the results were much easier to predict and extrapolate, but it wasn’t the same for Internet Explorer 7 vs 8b. In the heavy weight division IE7 is often compared to a 500-pound gorilla, but could Microsoft convince it to go on a diet for IE8? Once […]
Are you free or busy?
A few years ago I thought the days of rambling off your entire schedule to someone else, over the phone or via email, to find a meeting time were long dead and gone. What I’ve found after a couple years in the work force is that most of the collaboration platforms today essentially only share […]
Mulberry: The Underdog Wins
iCalendar (the standard .ics not the Apple program) only gets you so far. We’ve previously covered CalDav in Apple’s iCal for Mac, but where does the CalDav field stand for Windows and Linux users? It’s important to push communication between different programs, platforms, and technologies. We’ve just completed a free-busy interop that we’ll blog more […]