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Link: Firefox 3 compatible Firebug 1.2 beta
Thursday, 22nd May 2008 by Musaul Karim
Firebug 1.2b has been released. It is compatible with Firefox 3 rc1.
If you haven’t tried out firefox 3 rc1 yet, check out my recent overview of firefox 3 rc1.
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Archive for May 2008
Windows running on the OLPC
Thursday, 22nd May 2008 by Musaul Karim
First look at the the new Windows based OLPC.
Wordpress and google webmaster tools sitemap
Thursday, 22nd May 2008 by Musaul Karim
If you are trying to use your wordpress feed as your sitemap in google webmaster tools, and it looks like there are errors in lines 11 and 12 citing Invalid URL, Invalid XML: too many tags, and Incorrect namespace, it is because you are using your rss2 feed as the sitemap.
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Changed URL of blog
Tuesday, 20th May 2008 by vftw-sa
Moved the blog from http://blog.vftw.com subdomain to the main domain. The main domain just had a gatway page, which wasn’t doing my already non-existent search position any favours.
It went relatively smooth, but took a while to change some of the URLs. A general web development tip, that often gets overlooked when blogging I guess: Use relative URLs for you links. It would save a lot of mundane work.
Trying out Firefox 3 rc1
Sunday, 18th May 2008 by Musaul Karim
On my almost green 1.5GHz VIA computer running linux you can immediately tell that firefox 3 rc1 is a lot more responsive than Firefox 2. The problem is though it doesn’t have support for some of the my Web Development plugins, namely Firbug, HTML Validator and Web Developer. I know beta versions of these are available for firefox 3, but I’m feeling a little lazy now to hunt them down and install them. It’ll take more clicks than I’m willing to spare right now! 
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OpenOffice as a web based spreadsheet server
Thursday, 15th May 2008 by Musaul Karim
Javaworld has an interesting article on using OpenOffice as the server for a web based spreadsheet like Google Spreadsheets. They use servlets running on Tomcat to communicate with OpenOffice.org, while using Dojo for the web tier.
It handles all the standard spreadsheet functions, but I’m thinking this could be a very useful resource for people needing web based mathematical/statistical applications. It appears you can integrate it with a Java/J2EE application with a little effort, saving you from reinventing the wheel.
Links:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2008/jw-05-spreadsheets.html