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IzPack download stats: more than I expected!
It's been a while since I last checked out the IzPack download stats. I have to say that Codehaus stats are somehow hard to get, and the scripts behind it are somehow unreliable
Thus, my mind stayed on the number of 15.000 downloads per month, which is already quite nice isn't it?
Fortunately my friend Guillaume Laforge (aka Mr Groovy) sent me a nice script to parse the stats from Codehaus and get the most out of it. Of course it is written in Groovy 
As you can see, we do much better than 15.000 downloads, with a stunning record of 25.105 downloads in september!.
Thanks a lot to all of our IzPack users around the world
Nuxeo uses IzPack
The innovative, French-based company called Nuxeo uses IzPack to distribute its ECM solutions!
Nuxeo 5 is an innovative, standards-based, open source platform for building ECM applications. Its component-based and service-oriented architecture makes it easy to customize and extend, making developers more efficient and ultimately, happier.
You can get the Nuxeo installers from their downloads page. Guys, keep up the good work!
Google should pay more attention to design
I am starting to get really puzzled about Google and design. Really.
I have always been a fan of their minimalistic interfaces. Part of their success is here by the way: they don't use shadows, gradients and the likes... yet it looks good and clean.
If you are a heavy GMail user like me, you have probably seen that Google has just launched themes for GMail:
Some of the themes look good such as minimalist or new blue. However, most of the remaining themes really remind me of the early home pages of the end of 90's: sunset, marina or phantasea to name a few. I have no clue on how people can actually do some email tasks with those themes and don't even get a headache
I am really wondering if Google ever paid attention to design: the list of themes for Google Pages Creator or Google Sites is very small and only a few themes actually look good.
This is a real shame as they could easily pay a few designers or even some of their very own employes (yes, they have some really bright UI people...) to create some very clean and good looking themes for thoses services. I am pretty sure that I wouldn't be the only one to appreciate such an effort isn't it?
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