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Give a little credit
Yesterday I saw Matt Drance’s post about webkit turning ten. He omitted one important fact, and mis-stated another. First, WebKit does not power “nearly every relevant browser and engine used today”. WebKit does have the mobile space locked up: Android, … Continue reading
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jactiveresource 0.4 released
I’ve made a new release of jactiveresource, a Java port of the ActiveResource module in Rails. Many classes have been refactored, enabling better test coverage. Creation of http client objects has been refactored as well, making it super easy to … Continue reading
Adobe AIR on amd64 or ia64 Ubuntu/Kubuntu
Adobe does not yet have a 64 bit version of the AIR SDK or runtime for Linux. They do have some instructions for getting it to work. If you run Ubuntu, it is much simpler. just type: $ sudo aptitude … Continue reading
Zenoss Plugins now support OpenBSD
Zenoss is a great open source system monitoring tool. I usually configure it to get data using SNMP. However, I have a few remote OpenBSD boxes that I want to keep an eye on, and I am not going to … Continue reading
Installing Bespin on Kubuntu 8.10
I have I have had Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) on one of my machines for a month or so. I really miss baghira, which makes linux look at much like OSX as linux can look. Alas, there will be no baghira … Continue reading