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By jamie Filed under Drupal 7

Progressive Technology Project has released a new Drupal module called CiviCRM Cicero that integrates with the Cicero service from Azavea. If you are using CiviCRM with Drupal, you can now add legislative district and more information to your database.

 

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By EileenFiled under

Slow pages are annoying and they can cost $$$. But improving performance often means re-writing chunks of code and is often expensive. Bad performance hurts us all. So the question is how can we improve it.

 

The main mechanism we have used in the community so far for banding together to fund these things is the MIH - the tricky thing for performance is framing the MIH in a useful way.

 

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the third beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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By totten Filed under Architecture, Interface and design

Brian Shaughnessy (lcdweb), who has been working with the New York State Senate's CiviCRM project, recently raised the issue of simultaneous editing: What happens when two users simultaneously make changes to same contact record?  We've held a few discussions on IRC to examine the issue and draft some solutions.  We would appreciate further feedback and ideas on how to address the issue.

The Problem

As described by Brian:

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the second beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is a BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the first beta release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an BETA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

This is a security release. We strongly recommend that all sites upgrade their CiviCRM code to this release.

The team is excited to announce the fifth stable release of version 4.1  - with support for Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Joomla 2.5, and Wordpress 3.3. You can download the release now from Sourceforge.

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By Anonimo Filed under CiviCon

Here in the UK we're busying ourselves with organising our second CiviCRM conference, at Westminster Hub on the 19th September. You can read lots more about it here - http://london2012.civicrm.org,  and book early to benefit from the Early bird discounts now available!

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By yashodha Filed under Release announcements

The team is excited to announce the fourth alpha release for 4.2 with support for Drupal 7, Joomla 1.7 and WordPress.

Please remember this is an ALPHA release and it should NOT be used on production sites - however, we  strongly encourage everyone to upgrade a copy of your current site(s) on a test server and let us know about any bugs or problems.

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