Archive | January, 2006

RadRails 0.5.3 Is Out!

by Jim on 29. Jan, 2006 in Open Source, Ruby on Rails, Software, Web Authoring

RadRails 0.5.3 has been released! It seems like forever since we’ve seen a release from the RadRails team (but, it really hasn’t been that long, they were just spoiling us with such a fast release schedule). The biggest change in this release is the reintegration of the RDT Ruby IDE.
I haven’t had time to try [...]

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Site Redesign

by Jim on 27. Jan, 2006 in Uncategorized

I’m in the middle of redesigning this site. I just got tired of the green colors. It’s a work in progress, so please excuse the mess.

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No Native Flash Player For Intel Macs

by Jim on 21. Jan, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Software, Web Authoring

According to reports from around the web, the Flash Player does not run well inside Safari or Firefox on the new Intel Macs (using Rosetta). Adobe has known about the switch to Intel for more than half a year, isn’t that enough time to make the Flash Player work on the new processors? Where [...]

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WebKit Nightly Builds Offer Great New Features For Web Developers

by Jim on 19. Jan, 2006 in Apple, Mac OS X, Open Source, Software, Web Authoring

I recently learned that you can download nightly builds of WebKit. What is WebKit? From the site, “WebKit is the system framework used on Mac OS X by Safari, Dashboard, Mail.app, and many other OS X applications. It is based on the KHTML engine from KDE.”
Why would you want to download and use WebKit [...]

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Matt Mullenweg Interview

by Jim on 19. Jan, 2006 in Linux, Tech, Web Authoring

Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, was interviewed on episode 119 of The Linux Link Tech Show.  It’s an interesting listen.

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FireBug, Another Great Reason To Use Firefox

by Jim on 19. Jan, 2006 in Software, Web Authoring

There’s a great new Firefox extension called FireBug. If you develop websites, you NEED this plugin. I won’t go into details, because it seems that everyone else is blogging about it today. Just check it out.

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0

by Jim on 19. Jan, 2006 in Software, Web Authoring

I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 today. The process went very smoothly. There are lots of great new features in 2.0, including caching and a nice little WYSIWYG editor. My only complaint is that the WYSIWYG editor doesn’t work in Safari. Of course, I think this is probably a Safari problem and [...]

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