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We made a server upgrade yesterday. The much requested “zoom image”
for downloads is finally here! There is quite a bit of work behind
this update, but the list of user visible changes isn’t that big as
can been seen in the changelog:

• Added “zoom image” option to image download page. It let’s you
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Today we're releasing many new things :)

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- A developer version of Opera Widgets for Symbian Series60 (only available in the Widget SDK)
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The major new feature in Windows Mobile is the Widget Manager, but we have also added a Zoom slider and done some user interface and usability improvements in addition to many under-the-hood fixes in the browser core.

The Symbian UIQ browser is our latest and greatest UIQ build. It can only be installed on SonyEricsson P1, W960, G700 and G900.

Many of you have asked for a Symbian Series60 browser, and today we're releasing a Widget Manager which is one of our milestones towards a new full Series60 browser which will be based on the latest browser core. The S60 widget manager is a developer version packaged together with the Opera Widgets SDK.

As usual, please look at the list of Known Issues on the download page before reporting bugs in the Windows Mobile or UIQ forums.

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Here at Opera, we make more things than the desktop browser. Apart from the browser for all the other platforms and Opera Mini, we make some internal systems, some server-side support for the browser, and some public sites. Probably the most well known, non-browser Opera product is My Opera (yes, this very site!). Being such an important product, it's in the hands of very smart people (and me), and it goes through extensive automated testing to catch as many problems as possible, as early as possible.

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The unit test suite is a standard Perl test suite that covers the most important modules of My Opera. Again, we use private databases for the tests that do need them, so we ensure a reliable testing environment.

Last, but not least, we have everything hooked up in continuous integration so we have testrun information for every commit. When any test suite catches errors, we are automatically notified, and we can track which changes produced which errors.

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Last week, Navjot, Vivek and I went to Kanpur to attend Techkriti, the technical festival organized by the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur. We went there as sponsors of an online treasure hunt called ‘Tesseract’, which was organized there.

When we set up our stall in the campus, we were greeted by sunshine and a cool breeze. We ended up getting a huge avalanche of poeple lining up to know more about Opera, our products and of course, our super-cool t-shirts. Students from all over the country had come to the event, and we had a nice time interacting with them. Some of them were new to Opera, and some were die-hard opera fans loyal to us for many years. Some even told us that they will go back to their college, and spread the word about Opera. Way to go! :up:

We also attended a talk given by Kevin Warwick, and later on strolled into a FOSS camp being held nearby. The guys over there were a pretty talented and enthusiastic bunch. Later on we were invited to judge the software programming contest happening nearby. Some of the stuff that we saw at the contest was pretty cool and it was encouraging to see young students trying out innovative solutions to real world problems.

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As you know, Continuous Integration is a set of simple practices that reduces software integration time and problems. It also improves general software quality with little overhead. Just having a testrun per every commit is quite handy for two reasons: early regression finding and easier debugging.

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If you are not using Continuous Integration in your project yet, you should start now!

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The first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 is finally available for you to download. This will be the first in a series of betas for Opera Mobile 9.5. It is designed for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 phones with touchscreens.

The market has undergone a series of dramatic changes since our last major Opera Mobile upgrade. Apple entered the mobile browser market with Safari on the iPhone. Mozilla announced it will release a version of Firefox Mobile later this year and many other players are releasing browsers targeted for smartphones.

We have some fierce competition, but we are determined to keep Opera Mobile as the standard in Web browsing on smartphones. To achieve this, we need your help more than ever. Please file bugs and give us feedback in the forums and even feature requests. Our development team is active on the My Opera forums and will answer questions and do their best to help you out as you put the beta through its paces.

As I write this, I’ve just left for a much-needed vacation. I expect a long list of bugs and feature-requests to be waiting for me when I get back. After I return, we’ll get back to our regular programming with updates on the roadmap and subsequent betas.

Happy bug-hunting!


Edit: Head over to dev.opera.com to read more about the browser from a developer angle or to find out how to use Dragonfly with this beta.

Edit2: This beta will only work on touchscreen-based windows mobile devices. We are planning to add compatibility for non-touchscreen phones in the future.

Edit3: Main testing has been done on English HTC devices (Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch, Touch Dual, Touch Cruise, TyTN and Wizard) and Samsung i900.

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If you want to be a part of something great, a part of a product that competes with the likes of Microsoft and Google, a product used by millions worldwide everyday, come join us!

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Lots of stuff today

Anyway, I don’t know if you already noticed. Some of you might, probably. The RSS feeds in your links section is probably already working again.
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So, yes, you can use MyOpera as a feed-reader!
Not really wonderful, but… it should work now. Maybe you will have to wait 2-3 days for our feed spider to catch up…

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As we said yesterday, we found out the reason the site was so slow last weekend, and some parts of Monday.
And the reason was that we got kindly hammered by some proxy servers that seem to be located in Vietnam,
requesting lots of “fake”, as in “non existing” pages, always referring to the same user (that was already banned, don’t know when).

These strange requests were referred to this user’s blog, but they were totally fake, containing unusually long paths and as far as we know, they always resulted in the “banned user” page (or timeouts/proxy errors).

When we found this, we just temporarily disallowed requests having that strange pattern, and, voila’, everything was working again.
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