Archive | June, 2006

Keeping Up With The Bird

on 29-Jun-2006 in Lizard

If you haven’t already seen the post, head over to songbirdnest and read about the latest happenings with Songbird. The good news — Mac and Linux binaries are available. The bad news — they are not quite usable/stable yet. Or if you prefer, build the source and get stuck in at the deep end. I [...]

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Sugar RIGHT NOW!

on 27-Jun-2006 in The Betes

One of the foremost nightmares of diabetics (including me) is to be get hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in an unfamiliar environment. Lows happen to us all sometimes, no matter how careful you are. When left unchecked, you go unconscious and long-term liver damage can occur if frequent enough. Rule #1 is to always carry something [...]

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Navarik Report Writer

Ships Ahoy!

on 17-Jun-2006 in Lizard

Here’s a novel use of the Firefox extension system, mission critical per se. Navarik, a company that develops and manages information networks for the marine shipping industry, are deploying a customised extension to gather data from vessels out at sea. Read about it on their blog. The Report Writer was built in-house by Navarik, and [...]

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Subscribe via Email to Pogovor

on 9-Jun-2006 in Blogging, Lizard

I’ve been set up with Feedburner as my main feed provider for a while now. They’ve added a nifty and (not so) new feature, to subscibe to blogs via email. If you still enjoy the email lark and your mail is not clogged up too much already, then sign up and you’ll receive my posts [...]

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XULRunner Article

on 6-Jun-2006 in Lizard

Če vas zanima tehnologija za Mozillo, podrobneje pa njena prihodnost, vam svetujem, da si priskrbite svoj izvod revije Monitor (junij 2006, l.16, št. 6). Na strani 36 je praktični vodič o strukturi in razvijanju XULRunner aplikacij. Zdaj nimate več izgovorov, zato začnite pisati svoj lasten program še danes. Če imate kakšno vprašanje, me kontaktirajte ali [...]

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Got Your jPod Yet?

on 4-Jun-2006 in Reading, Science & Technology

Douglas Coupland is a writer who always seems to have his finger on the pulse. The media call it capturing the zeitgeist (he’s probably sick of hearing that word). So his new book is out simply called ‘jPod’. I really wonder how much of it is accident or contrived at this point, but I’ll give [...]

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DIY Extension Updates – Part 1

on 1-Jun-2006 in Lizard

Most extension authors I imagine rely on the Extension Manager UI that comes with Firefox/Thunderbird and other Mozilla Applications. It’s trivial to hook up the EM in XULRunner applications, a great way to leverage extensions for whatever you are building. Yet I wonder how often users actually open the EM UI, especially those that only [...]

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