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OWA version 1.2.1 has been released. See the release notes for OWA 1.2.1 here. Overall, version 1.2.1 includes significant speed and memory usage improvements, tons of bug fixes, and some major new features including: Domstream Recordings. OWA can ... [More] now record a visitor’s mouse movements, keystrokes, and clicks as part of a “screen recording”. Think of it as [...] [Less]

What’s a better way to celebrate the new year than a sitting down with a new version of OWA. This is the first release candidate for version 1.2.1. See the release notes for OWA 1.2.1 here. 1.2.1 includes significant speed and memory usage improvements as well as tons of bug fixes and even some major new [...]

We are pleased to announce the availability of OWA 1.2.0. This release completes a significant amount of re-factoring to the core framework code including how entities, metrics, controllers, and views work. New Features include: Entity Schema ... [More] Creation. OWA entities can now create their own database tables. OWA’s object-relational-mapping layer has been extended to allow entities to [...] [Less]

1.2.0rc3 has been released. This is mainly a bug fix release and brings OWA up to date to work with version 2.8 of Wordpress. Please give it a whirl. This will hopefully be the last release candidate before the 1.2.0 release. To upgrade to this release just ’svn up’ or download the tarball and copy the [...]

Quick release to address the following bugs in RC1: Login was failing on some Wordpress installs due to OWA looking for WP’s user role in an array whose keys are not always consistent. (Thanks to Nathan) CSS was looking for images that did not ... [More] exist (Thanks to Nathan) Fix spelling error on permissions error msg. (Thanks to Nathan) If upgrading from [...] [Less]

This is the first release candidate for version 1.2.0 .  This release completes a significant amount of re-factoring to the core framework code including how entities, metrics, controllers, and views work. We have tried to maintain ... [More] backwards compatibility with most API methods but it’s worth doing some testing on your metrics and controllers to ensure things are working. [...] [Less]

I’m at PubCon this week. Just send me a note if you are too and want to meetup.

I’ll be headed to WordCamp San Francisco this weekend. If anyone wants to meet up, just drop me a line here. We’re hoping to get v1.2rc1 out by then for everyone to play with.

Pat over at AVG was kind enough to send me this official response to the issue of AVG 8 generating fake traffic by scanning each link in search results: We’d like to thank our web community for bringing these challenges to our attention, as building community trust and protecting all of our users is critical to us. We [...]

Just a heads up that anti-virus maker AVG has included a new feature in it’s AVG 8 software that generates fake visits to your web site. The way this works is someone running AVG 8 (there are 20 million people) searches for something using Google. AVG will, in the background, visit each web site listed in the [...]