Archive | September, 2006

Warts ‘N All Magic

on 28-Sep-2006 in Blogging, Lizard

The blogosphere is alive with mumblings about Steve Yegge‘s rants. I haven’t read them all, but the one I have are, though lengthy, well worth a read. I point you in particular to this one: Blogger’s Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp Some real gems in there: It turns out if you dig deep into [...]

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IBLOC 2006

on 27-Sep-2006 in Briks, Events, Lizard, Slovenia

I will be at the International Business Linux and Open Source Conference next week in Portorož on the Slovene coast. While I won’t be speaking, I will be participating in a round table discussion (alert: mostly iin Slovene language) on using OSS in business information systems. The schedule looks good this year, with some talks [...]

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Pickup Now On AMO

on 20-Sep-2006 in Briks, Lizard

The Pickup Picture Uploader is now listed on Mozilla Add-ons. Go get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3335/ If you already have it installed from the Briks server, I recommend re-installing this version to ensure smoother updates in the future.

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Firefox Adoption up to 39% in Slovenia

on 18-Sep-2006 in Lizard, Slovenia

[via Standblog] A rise of over 2% between July and September, and the highest in Europe. Impressive numbers indeed. Zelo dobro! On a related note, what do you think the default news feed should be for Firefox 2 in Slovene? Have your say in bug 352345.

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XUL for Enterprise

on 7-Sep-2006 in Lizard

Somebody asked on mozilla.dev-tech-xul the other day — Is XUL ready for enterprise applications? What surprised me was the answer by Benjamin Smedberg, essentially recommending using HTML instead. Granted, the question and answer focused on versioning issues which can be problematic, but it is kind of ironic considering Ben is building the platform for deploying [...]

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I’m Not Leaving The Browser…

on 5-Sep-2006 in Lizard

… said the Firefox enthusiast to his co-workers. AllPeers public beta came out last week, and if you ignore the hype and take it for what it is, it is quite decent software. I admit that my file sharing habits are still stuck in email and skype land, but I’m trying to get in on [...]

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