Elephant has a complex page construction, element composed and factory driven. Thus, Elephant has powerful configuration grounds and might walk soundly step by step.
To understand what goes on when rendering the HTML, we first need to understand what a page is. One page, one context. One context, multiple layout and content elements. Real world, though, shows that most of times, pages are composed by layout elements spanning site-wide and a single content element. Real life is complex, but follows phisics laws.
Since I started writing code for the enterprise, products where the stars on Moneyland sky. Everything is a product: services, merchandise, manufactures... everything is worth buying or using. Thus, you have something, you give it a code and the magic starts: you have a product. No matter if its free or costs money.
Today showed up in a mailed article that Steve Jobs owned a patent on glass staircases. Did he had in mind fabricate staircases? Glass staircases? Or did he saw somebody with one and thought: What the hell! Let's put some money on this and wait for future rewards. Again came to my head the time when Microsoft wanted to patent the fact of writing documents in XML format... even before they use it and after the Open Document Foundation created the open document format and OpenOffice ship it as standard! Crazy world, indeed.
Was amazing to discover Google+ Circles. Despite some people claiming that Google+ force users to use their real names instead of a pseudonim, I think Google contacts is sound and Circles a beatiful idea. And if dealing with real identities, still better. Is such a good idea that integrating BrightSide Contacts with Google Apps and Social Groups with Circles is taking a more defined picture.
Apart of the single sign-on feature, Google is giving a common place for contacts, synchronized with Android devices. With Circles you have multiple FB in a single account.
Treasury module its first quarter was kind of disappointing. Didn't really carry modifications, didn't accept anexing and previous exercise was a nightmare. BrightSide Financials version 1.3 includes new features and fixes all those bugs.