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October 2005



New SAM release with AJAX!

2005.10.29 Sat 10:18 P GMT-07
I've updated SAM to now include a webserver. This brings along with it a new AJAXy interface (I guess this is sort of a followup to my AJAX post, Alex (dojo) and Bob (mochikit) were the only open source people who responded to my requests for commen
Category: python linux open source ajax
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TestGen4Web, record/script your interactions with Firefox

2005.10.26 Wed 3:12 P GMT-07
A co-worker of mine has created a very useful firefox extension for capturing interactions in Firefox. By itself this is useful for scripting common things you do with the web that are tedious yet you do them often. (I had an old coworker who had c
Category: python open source
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Google hates me....

2005.10.25 Tue 9:33 P GMT-07
I seem to have this love hate relationship with the company that seems to control the web. Ok this post will probably seem quite vain, so I apologize for that. But it illustrates that even though a companies' motto is "Do no evil", it doesn't alway
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How to create divx videos for Philips 642 DVD Player using Linux?

2005.10.20 Thu 9:12 P GMT-07
Yes that title is a question not an answer. A short amount of scouring the internet turned up nothing. We recently purchased a Canon S1 camera that takes pretty good mjpeg videos. Our DVD player, the Philips 642 will play divx video, yet I can
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Fun with technical support and web standards

2005.10.14 Fri 11:44 A GMT-07
Here's an email exchange I recently had: Hello- I saw the link to your service today on Slashdot. I'm interested in your photo books, yet I don't have a Windows machine. Are you planning to support firefox anytime soon. If so, you will prob
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MochiKit DOM helper script

2005.10.14 Fri 11:26 A GMT-07
So, I've been trying out MochiKit. The stuff I've done so far seems very straightforward and also functional (as in lispy). Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon. In the meantime, I've created a python script for converting well fo
Category: python open source ajax
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Inkscape and Xara (an example of competion)

2005.10.13 Thu 10:21 A GMT-07
Category: linux open source
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Ajax explosion

2005.10.06 Thu 3:27 P GMT-07
With OpenOffice 3.0 (the AJAX edition) in the works, I thought I'd join the bandwagon and do a more with AJAX. So I have a dilemma. Much like in the python world (where it is really easy to implement what you want) where there exists many slightly
Category: python open source
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