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Grep the web with Fresno: a command line for Firefox

• July 3rd, 2007
• Posted in Mozilla

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 ]

Literal XML in Erlang with parse_transform/2

• June 26th, 2007
• Posted in Documentation . Erlang

One of the things I dislike about Erlang is that it severely impairs bragging opportunities. Yesterday I wrote a module that allows writing literal XML in the source and have it parsed into Erlang structures at compile time—sort of like E4X minus the manipulation goodies at runtime (at least for now). You write:

Doc = '<greeting>Hello!</greeting>',
io:format("~p~n", [Doc]).

Modular interfaces

• September 30th, 2006
• Posted in Mozilla

This is the second in a series of articles on aspects of designing XUL applications. Displaying repetitive data in XUL interfaces, such as a list of people, a set of messages, or any other collection of things whose number may vary at runtime, is usually done by painstakingly creating those document parts with createElement() and [ READ MORE ]

Almost there…

• September 4th, 2006
• Posted in Other

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