To quote abigor on slashdot In all fairness, no platform is perfect, let’s face it. You seem to be commenting on OS X (hard drives, 3d performance, etc.), so let’s see: If you want non-working cut and paste (the general case is it only works for text), no 3d performance at all, barely any wireless [...]
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4 years on, still love every bit of it
Posted in linux, Softwares, tagged computer, linux, mac os x, os on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am not with Adobe
Posted in Softwares on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It seems everybody has weighed it in with this controversy about the new Section 3.3.1 of iPhone SDK agreement. This change effectively bans the use of “applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer”, which nullifies Adobe’s upcoming Flash-to-iPhone conversion tool.First, Adobe was angry, really angry. In its official Flash [...]
Finally found those websafe fonts, sort of…
Posted in Softwares, web on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My job involves creating web pages, and though that does not mean I need to make them beautiful, I sure like to make things look nice. Ever time I come across some magazines and especially those well-designed advertisements in them, I wonder to myself, “man, I wish I could use those fonts for my websites.” Unfortunately, [...]
Caja and JavaScript Security
Posted in Softwares, tagged javascript, security, web on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People have been worrying about cross-site scripting, and have been careful in dealing with user input data, typically by filtering out undesired HTML elements. There are now certain applications that cannot afford to filter out user-generated scripts, such as gadgets in iGoogle and OpenSocial, and facebook applications. These applications must run user-submitted JavaScript, often inside [...]
What’s new in Python 2.6
Posted in Softwares, tagged coding, python on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Full release notes are here. Here are something that catch my eyes. with statement with is a statement that simplifies the task of elegantly acquiring and releasing resources, and moves the task of handling exception to the resource manager author. For example, the file object now supports with statement, and when using this statement, the [...]
Comparison of Android and iPhone SDK
Posted in Softwares, tagged android, google, iPhone, mobile on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In developer-friendly versus customer-friendly, the author made a really good point about Apple’s controversial stance in many of its recent decisions. A follow-up made it even clearer using OS X application development as an example. Though I still prefer to code in an environment that is developer friendly, which I think both Linux and OS [...]
Apache default character encoding
Posted in linux, Softwares on August 26, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I use the apache server hosted by my department in the university. Unfortunately, the apache server was set to use ascii as the default encoding. So even if you use charset in the meta tag, it is not gonna be respected by the browser. But I have to use Chinese characters now and then. Previously, [...]
Bon Echo and Extension Compatibility
Posted in firefox, Softwares on June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have been having a great time with Bon Echo. I was having problem running it on my laptop, and later I found it conficted with my input method (SCIM). So I simply put it undermodified environment variables (using env) and the problem got solved. And now I had this new problem: it does not [...]
Apache2 and SVN: Install SVN in Debian GNU/Linux
Posted in linux, Softwares on June 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I found it could really handy to have my own SVN server, since I have been working on project from many different computers. Although I have been using CVS to manage projects on my own computer, when it comes to working on multiple computers and version control over the internet, SVN has its advantages. I [...]
Google’s Ajax Toolkit
Posted in Ideas!, Softwares on May 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
All major players in the software industries seem to be interested in the next-generation client/server application. Microsoft used to bet on .NET and wanted everything, from server side to client to be on .NET, except that the most important OS's of the interNET does not have support for .NET; it then focused on the XAML, [...]
