The Nexus

Here comes S2ajax v1.0!

Last night I was trying to setup a @mail server but the installer kept choking when attempting to connect to my local database.

Beta 4 is out and it is very sweet.

If, like me, your company’s insistence on using Sharepoint as an Intranet tool contributes to rapid neurons death, there is as least a glimmer of hope: you can still use Firefox without being punished by having to type raw HTML code when editing a page (S…

This is a cross-posting with the nextBBS support board.

I have no idea why but sometimes a .dmg file will just-not-mount.For instance I just downloaded the latest PostBox from http://postbox-inc.com/ and the silly little image will not cooperate.

Close to two years ago, after quickly putting together my own FLV Player plugin for Wordpress (original post) I added it to Wordpress.org’s already impressive list of plugins.

Sunday Hacking is going to be this new and irregular feature, where I blather about how I made my week-end a bit geekier by doing such or such hardware hack.

Well, this title says it all!

I was reading Paul Gregg's very clear explanation of "classless" ranges comparison when I realized that his code was not as "bare metal" as could be.

bespin is really an intriguing project.

Well, the title pretty much says it all: v1.3 is out and it’s an evolutionary release.

Winners:

I should be able to release this new client tomorrow or day after tomorrow.

Sajax is a ‘managed’ AJAX framework that was created by the fine folks at Modern Method a few years ago.What’s so great about it is the seamless communication between your back-end and the web page itself: you write your PHP code, tell Sajax which functio…

First of all, that’s an awesome plugin that will allow your visitors to have a look at external links while retaining the ability to comment locally on your blog.

Let’s say that you renamed your Wordpress tables.There may be several reasons for this.

I do not get it.

About 10 months ago, I released this tool, allowing developers to handle ExtJS like “managed” code in PHP: ExtPHP.

It’s no secret that Git, as a source code control tool, has become quite popular in 2008, in part boosted by the success of the socially oriented github.com Here is a list of six resources that will help you get more comfy with Git, whatever your current…

A couple years ago, some lad going by the pseudonym of @binderskagnaes, at DeviantArt, released a set of icons on a dark background lovingly named “Blaqua.”

I know, it’s a bold assertion.

I built this driver in 2007, to support Leopard Darwin on my wife’s laptop (hmmm where’s the “wink wink nudge nudge” smiley when you need it?)

Based on the very helpful feedback I received from the Twitterified client users, here is version 1.2’s log:

Somehow, seemingly out of nowhere, Twitterers have started to notice Twitterified.

Just a quick note: I use VirtualBox daily at work.

I love the idea of Switzerland, the new EFF tool for checking ISP throttling; unfortunately as of release Zero.0.5, Leopard seems to still be a mere afterthought.

I cannot believe that it took me so long to get my ducks in a row.First, Twitterified was entirely written in Javascript, like most AIR clients.

For my new projects, I have decided to use PHP5, mostly because at least a couple projects will be worked on by a team and the learning curve is fairly forgiving.I decided, however, to follow the model offered by Rails.

It’s a new feature!

I received this email today:

When things start smelling “funny” in the open-source community, they tend to go to the dogs with the haste of a drunk marching band.

It is something that I had to think about in my day job, because my team is migrating to PHP for web development and I believe that we simply do not have enough time for them to learn JavaScript’s intricacies, I needed to be the one person who would have…

UPDATE

Well, this is exciting:Paul Bakaus, lead jQuery UI developer, announced today that he was hired by Liferay, Inc., of L.A., to work full time on his baby.

Great news: with Leopard, there is no need for iCalFix anymore!

Kodachi v0.5.1 is out!

You can now anonymously sync. to the bleeding edge version of Kodachi’s source code at svn://nextbbs.com/kodachi

Oh, man.

Well, this was much more work than I had anticipated.And now, of course, I find that my voice sounds weird, the rhythm seems off, etc.

Yesterday, Alex and I went to the Convention Center and had a look.

Do you have any idea how much disregarding basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) rules can cost you?

Funny coincidence: mere days after I decide to re-post my views on open-source, Daniel Robbins, of Gentoo fame, decides to post a late-night rant trying to address the shortcomings of the Gentoo Foundation.

A couple months ago, I made a post about my new toy: OpensIFRr, which lets you easily create awesome Flash files that you can use to render just about any font in your web pages.

The player I used in my previous post ( ’nBBS Admin CP’ ) is now available in the Wordpress.org’s plugin directory.

Soon to be unleashed on your unsuspecting screens (well…if you’re using NextBBS, that is *):[flvplayer http://www.nextbbs.com/D/acp2.flv]

It’s like this message has become a feature of OS X.

Since one of the goals of this blog is to show you how we resolved some of the issues we encounter when writing modern Web applications, allow me to repost this short article that I originall posted at goodjavascript.com

They are everywhere: protopage, pageflakes, netvibes et al are free, easy to use -as long as you have a powerful browser- and moderatly eye-pleasing.

Well, after spending quite some time cleaning up the code, making sure that no ‘dangerous’ Admin CP operation is available in multi-boards mode, and identifying which settings need to be made immutable, we are almost there.