Also, wrt Kevin’s post on themes there was a comment suggesting a green #ACE149 skin – we wrote one for fun – we call it “Froggy” and its my favorite. There are 9 others if that doesn’t tickle your fancy… here is froggy…
Ajax Optimization Techniques: OSCON 2006
Earlier this year I wrote about some of the Ajax Optimization Techniques we use with Zimbra to make it perform for our users. We continue to evolve the techniques we use and are always measuring the improvements. While this will be the topic of some future blog entries those of you in Portland this week […]
Collaboration Suite 3.2 Beta 2 Highlights
Today we released 3.2 Beta 2 for your testing pleasure. Rather than try to pick out a few *hot* items I’ve reproduced the highlights document that is included with the release. The following are some of the new feature highlights coming in ZCS 3.2 (* indicates that the feature is available in the Network Edition […]
Succeeding with Open Source
Most successful open source projects started out as open source. Zimbra took a different path: We cranked code for nearly two years in stealth mode before making the first public release of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in open source in August of ’05. Since then, of course, it’s been a wild ride: Zimbra is now […]
Defining Web 2.0 (Reprise)
(Caveat: this is indeed a retread, but the original content has been sufficiently revised that I’m electing to republish.) While most of the Web 2.0 focus has been on the consumer (Zimbra being a notable exception), I visited a large corporation (call it Acme) that was working on their response to these new technologies and […]
Skins and more skins
Owen our UI and CSS guru has been hard at work the last couple weeks revamping our UI skin framework. In the next release it’s trivial to define a color palette and generate the CSS required to re-skin or re-color Zimbra. As part of this the basic skins that ship with Zimbra require little or […]