Archive for July, 2007
To help interested users and developers be a little more aware of what is going on development-wise with SamePlace, I posted a first update (of hopefully many) on the SamePlace blog[ READ MORE ]
More goodies for MozRepl-equipped Firefoxes: T. V. Raman points me to a simple shell script to start and drive the browser on headless machines and to a module to drive Firefox from Emacspeak.
Quote of the day from the above post:
I’ve seen it happen time and again. Companies and individuals go out of their way to write great open source software, then, when the moment comes to let the world know about it, they (and/or their early adopters and proponents) present it as “an alternative to [proprietary solution] Foo”.
That�s bad when Foo is an established player:
Version 0.7 of SamePlace, the instant messaging client for Firefox, Flock and Thunderbird, is available. Its late over here, and Im still on the lookout for subtle transition issues (who said that writing code is the hard part? Release engineers get all my respect ), so I hope youll forgive me if I spend some more lines at the servers console and fewer blogging[ READ MORE ]
Ben from Simile points me to Fresno, a tool that connects to a MozRepl-equipped Firefox and drives it from the command line[ READ MORE ]