Archive for the ‘ Releases ’ Category
In October I introduced custom interactors and someone asked what can be done with them other than application inspection.
Here's a practical application that turns Firefox into a screenshot server. It lets you request e.g. Features and things to note:[ READ MORE ]http://localhost:4242/screenshot/http://en.wikipedia.org and receive a PNG screenshot of Wikipedia homepage. (Instructions to run it are at the bottom.)
Still following the philosophy of “what the hell are you still doing on my disk”, I released seethrough for JavaScript, a port of the XML/XHTML template engine I wrote for Erlang some time ago. [ READ MORE ]
After writing it in a couple of afternoons and letting it wait for attention (alas, in vain) for months, I decided to release purplebridge so that others may play with it. Quoting from the wiki: purplebridge is a GUI-less client for IM networks based on libpurple that disguises as a local XMPP server. Once ready, an XMPP client will be able to launch it, connect to it, and through it reach the foreign networks supported by libpurple. The wiki has more information about status and rationale[ READ MORE ]
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 ]
After many, many weeks of should be ready real soon now, the new SamePlace web site and a release candidate of SamePlace Suite 0.7 are available. The first thing youll probably notice about both is the user interface. Most of the merit for it goes to Andrea Cuius. Ill talk more about this and the numerous other changes that happened under the hood in the release notes for [ READ MORE ]