Friday, April 25, 2003|
A nice toolbar for Mozilla contains a collection of tools that web developers might find useful. Nice debugging tolls in case you are having problems with your layout. Created as an experiment in XUL+JX, /pnhtoolbar/ is a good example of the useful extensibility of Mozilla. 10:31:16 AM 
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Friday, January 10, 2003|
This is a big deal. Works great in Mozilla 1.3b Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030204 3:30:54 PM
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The Nelsonville, Ohio, Public Library gives us a nice list of success stories using the Koha Project for library automation (catalogue and more). 10:11:33 AM
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Wednesday, January 08, 2003|
I really want to use xml-rpc as a transport mechanism to help me manage a couple of websites. This morning I checked out an xml-rpc request builder that is currently called Konstructor (name change pending). It did a fine job of building the message; unfortunately, it choked on the flood of data from my server. It delivers a biiiiig struct. Next I checked out Scott Andrew's xmlrpc-socket-based test script. Again, this implementation bailed, but in a different manner. Hmmmm - is there a problem in what my Cold Fusion-based xml-rpc server is delivering?
Finally, I gave a nice Java Web Start-based application a spin. Aloha's Inspector relies on system.listMethods to prompt the user with a dropdown of mothods to use. Very nice; unfortunately, I was not using this method. Back to the drawing board. Once I whipped up that method, it worked fine! I really do like where Aloha is going on this Java application. And the source code is available! |
Tuesday, January 07, 2003|
Read articles such as Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet and seriously consider their suggestions! Perhaps there is a bit too much choice in distro's at the moment - in RedHat 8, you can work in either Gnome or KDE. Hmmmm - which one should I choose? (Gnome is their default environment, and looks really slick. KDE, especially Konquerer, the KDE file browser, seems to be a bit more robust, IMHO.) It is very annoying that XMMS does not play MP3's by default. Trying to play video's is quite a task or trial and error. And Mozilla Mail does not have a spell checker! (But it is very easy to install...)
I believe that Linux on the Desktop works. It just needs to be properly implemented. Decide what applications your workgroup needs (word processing? e-mail? presentations? drawing?) and test it out on a workstation before implementing it for everyone else. Have clear goals as to what staff really need to be doing on their pc's during their 8-9 hours in the office. The fact that Linux does not handle *all* types of mpeg video may not be such a big deal. I've been using Red Hat 8 for a couple of months now, but perhaps I should re-visit my perennial favorite, Mandrake. a nice, short review of Mandrake 9. |
Saturday, January 04, 2003|
Now I'd like one that works with Postgresql... YASP Software has created some e-commerce online shops with MySQL backends. Our clients are using kind of traditional admin systems to view and amend information. HTML/JavaScript/Forms -- HTTP -- WWW SERVER -- SCRIPTS -- MySQL If we are talking about 1,000+ products selling online I can guess about the speed and usability of such interface. Slow, slow, slow. Especially when we need to provide various complex customizable reports and flexible product management. So well. We are looking for a better solution! XUL/JavaScript -- XPCOM -- MySQL XPCOM shown above is exactly the part we have created. It allows to build MySQL interfaces in pure JavaScript. Right now. Well... if you are able to install it :-) 3:51:20 PM
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Saturday, December 28, 2002|
A very nice open source calendaring project. Java servlet, iCal support, support for subscriptions planned. The quickstart version even includes its own database. Way to go! 4:19:41 PM
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While checking out this Newsforge/Slashdot article on 2003: the year of Asian Linux, I noticed the nice language support offered by Hancom Office: Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Arabic, Korean editions and Unicode support. I posted this recently, but it bears mentioning that the Shuttleworth Foundation is working on African-language support. Is there a directory of language support for open source projects? To test out outlining in Radio, I made a small directory on this topic. 11:41:56 AM
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Monday, December 23, 2002|
This happened about a week ago, and again this morning. After I start Mozilla, the initial about screen displays, then the program freezes, and my memory is slowly sucked away into the cosmos. Solution found: shot down the Mozilla.exe process, and delete the file"XUL.mfl." It gets corrupted, and needs to go away from time to time... 3:52:09 PM
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