Development
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Evil Brain Jono: Everybody Hates Firefox Updates
I’m super-late to this but wanted to shoot the link out there since I’ve also written about this before. Over on evilbrainjono.net, acknowledgment that Firefox updates are driving users away from the browser. In particular, I love this paragraph: “I’ve been thinking a lot about the fundamental disconnect between the developers and the users. I… Continue reading
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Resurrecting an old machine
I’ve had a 17-inch PowerBook G4 sitting around gathering dust for a few years. It was my development machine for a couple of years at UserLand, until I got a quad-core G5 tower machine, at which point it became my field-recording rig. I’ve decided to resurrect it as an Ubuntu machine for mucking around with… Continue reading
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Still using Chrome over Firefox
Back in August, I switched to Chrome, when a Firefox update broke some of the extensions I was using. I was reluctant to switch at the time, but the breakage was annoying enough that I turned off Firefox (i.e. stopped launching it), and switched to Chrome for my personal browsing when on mine or my… Continue reading
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Adrian Cockcroft on Nexflix use of AWS
“Small pieces, loosely joined” is making its mark in the cloud. Adrian Cockcroft on ZDNet UK: “Everyone is sitting in the middle of a bunch of supplier and consumer relationships and every team is responsible for knowing what those relationships are and managing them. It’s completely devolved — we don’t have any centralised control… “[We]… Continue reading
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On Integrating Frontier and Source Code Control (SVN)
I posted some of my initial thinking on how to integrate source code control (SVN) with Frontier’s IDE over on the frontierkernel Yahoo! Group. I think this is going to be important if we want developers to take the project seriously, and contribute meaningful code, rather than just a patchwork of fixes and mini-features. I’ve… Continue reading
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
Drinking the Kool-Aid Tonight, shortly after midnight, I’m going to switch my editorial interface over to Radio UserLand. What does this mean to my readers – all three of them? ;-> I’ll update more often, and the site will look a little different, but not much more than that. But what will this mean to me?… Continue reading
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I’ve got to get loaded?
Maybe I’m working too hard… I was just taking a break to surf for a few minutes. I took a glance over here, and I mistakenly read "I’d love to tell you more- but I’ve got to get loaded" instead of , "I’d love to tell you more- but I’ve got to get the car… Continue reading
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SOAP validations are Very Cool!!!
SOAP validations are Very Cool!!! Scripting News: I just heard from Simon Fell that it was his 4s4c that passed the test. Then at 2PM SOAP::Lite passed the test. So now we interop with two implementations. Excellent. Continue reading
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New Manila macro: rssLink
New Manila macro: rssLink We just released a new macro for use in your Manila sites: rssLink. If you include {rssLink ()} in your site’s template, you get a little orange icon which links to your RSS channel: (Make sure Syndication is enabled for your site) Continue reading
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You know what they say…
You know what they say… ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ or so they say… Scripting News: With two mouse-clicks I was able to transform my Handsome Radio Blog into a rough clone of Jake’s Brainpan. Now I can say I’m just like Jake! Coooool. Continue reading