Today, 30th of August, 2007, cgButterfly is online! The site promotes CG resources, as RSS feeds, taken from the top CG sites on the Internet.

cgButterfly launched with the mission of gathering CG (computer generated content) resources and information from various sources in one place. Categories such as tutorials, showcase, demo reels, graphic challenges, matte painting, and more, powered by RSS will deliver content right here on cg.butterflymedia.ro.

Being a great WordPress fan, I will share with you some themes and plugins resources I just found.

• 10 Beautiful Dark WordPress Themes
• 10 Clean and Light Wordpress Themes
• Top 20 WordPress Plugins I (someone) Use
• Winners: WordPress Plugin Competition

Go check them out and see if there is something good for you.

Once having prepared for professional courses like CISSP or even SY0-101, students find it much easier to study the preparation material for 70-272 as well as 70-270. This is because the course outline of 642-523 as well as 642-453 is on the same lines as the 70 series. The preparation material for 1Y0-259 is slightly advanced though.

The web design and programming company, Butterfly Media Romania, announces us that a new division of their site is about to emerge. It is about 3D. It will be about 3d modeling, texturing, special fx, painting, compositing, matte creation, animation, graphic challenges, demo reels, portfolios, showcases, tutorials. It will be a very good resource for 3D fans, animators, modelers and others. No launch date has been specified yet, but we wait some news and updates in mid-September.

Really good stuff on SEO. I think the widgets are very good for testing various aspects involved by SEO. Here’s an excerpt:

These Google Gadgets are lightweight XML programs that allow you to place interactive data inside web pages. This technology is useful for researching compact data points like site age, related keywords, or the quantity of inbound links pointing at a page… all the types of data points that are included in SEO for Firefox and a few that are not. If you prefer to have this type of data accessible from a toolbar we also created numerous SEO buttons for the Google Toolbar.

And if you want to add them on your web site, visit http://tools.seobook.com/google-gadgets/. I would have added the gadgets myself, but the current theme doesn’t fit them anywhere. I just use them on a regular basis from the site itself [SEOBook Tools]

A software release refers to the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. Each time a software program or system is changed, the programmers and company doing the work decide on how to distribute the program or system, or changes to that program or system. Software patches are one method of distributing the changes, as are downloads and compact discs.

Software release stages

The software release life cycle is composed of different stages that describe the stability of a piece of software and the amount of development it requires before final release. Each major version of a product usually goes through a stage when new features are added, or the alpha stage; a stage when it is being actively debugged, or the beta stage; and finally a stage when all important bugs have been removed, or the stable stage. Intermediate stages may also be recognized. The stages may be formally announced and regulated by the project’s developers, but sometimes the terms are used informally to describe the state of a product. Conventionally, code names are often used by many companies for versions prior to the release of the product, though the actual product and features are rarely secret. Read more »