PawPrint.net News

Happy Canada Day

As a proud Canadian company PawPrint is happy to celebrate our national holiday with this small digital bout of flag waving - perhaps it's not much, but we love this country and are proud to call it home.

Firefox 3.5 Launch

Today marks the launch of the latest version of Firefox (my favorite web browser) The new version includes a much faster Javascript engine - something that with all the Javascript being used in web applications today, should show a speed boost for almost everyone.

Building Web Site Success Update

The PawPrint.net white-paper entitled 'Building Web Site Success' that contains general web marketing and content development information has been updated for 2009.

XDe Tested and working on IE8 - Bye Bye IE6

Now that Microsoft has shipped IE8 and is rolling it out via automatic updates it was time to double check the XDe and ensure it works on the new system - not that we expected any issues, and everything checks out. We're now hopeful this new release will finally kill off the lingering IE6 browser and finally free the web!

Oracle buys Sun and therefore MySQL

With today's announcement that Oracle will purchase Sun for $ a lot of developers are asking - what happens to the open source MySQL database?

Microsoft Infects Firefox with Unwanted Extension

In the latest of Microsoft's "We are taking you where we want you to go today weather you like it or not" they are installing an extension (Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant) into Firefox without asking along with many upgrades involving the .NET framework. Here is how to remove this infection.

XDe Verified for Google Chrome

In what came as a surprise to many, Google today released a new web browser called "Google Chrome" - PawPrint has already updated the XDe which is now verified to work under the new browser.

Notification Module

PawPrint announces the availability of the new notification module - enhancing email and on-line communications across all web sites that are based on the PawPrint XDe modular system. This new core module is available free to all current PawPrint customers.

Tagging Module

PawPrint announces the availability of a new XDe module for object Tagging. The new module allows tags to be added to any module in the system (tags are like clickable keywords) This enhances searching and search engine indexing for the site as well as the overall user experience.

Portfolio Module Upgrade

As you will notice if you visit the PawPrint.net portfolio, the XDe Portfolio module has been significantly updated. It was time for a better look and feel for the module, as well as some additional features and a general speed-up