Archive for May 2008

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.

Windows running on the OLPC

Thursday, 22nd May 2008 by

First look at the the new Windows based OLPC.

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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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Trying out Firefox 3 rc1

Sunday, 18th May 2008 by

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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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