About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” although such a thing clearly hasn’t happened yet. Now, two [...]
My little blockquote title|cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results. It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It’s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I’ve altered the code to check string lengths instead of looking checking for null.
Get [...]
I’ll be in Cleveland until Friday at this. Posts to follow(?).
Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.
In other news, Hardy Heron is released! And its software is already out [...]
I love Jeff Atwood’s blog, and can even accept that he’s drank of the Microsoft Kool-Aid seemingly for both desktop and server because he’s a great writer and a great programmer.
But I admit to being troubled by his recent post. I might think it to be an April Fool’s Day joke, except the post [...]
One of the coolest packet analyzers anywhere, Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) has reached version 1.0 after 10 years of work. It’s a cool program, really it is. Get it here.
After 6+ months of steady development, Wordpress 2.5 has finally been released, with a number of new features, including a media library and the first administration panel redesign since 2.0.
In addition, the main Wordpress website has been redesigned to match.
Congratulations to all the hackers, testers, and volunteers who helped it happen.
Songbird, a cross-platform music player/manager and music store frontend based on the Mozilla XUL runtime, has reached 0.5. Get the download here. The program is a bit of a bear, but a competent app in a lot of ways.
After a number of delays, OpenOffice 2.4.0 has been officially released. Get it here. Check the mirrors for your own OS and localization. OpenOffice 2.4.0 has not quite been released yet. Some major new features include OpenGL transitions for Impress, some major charting improvements for Calc, and block selection for Writer.
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