12 Search Results: opensource

Yahoo Funding Firebug

Ooh, this kicks a lot of ass: Yahoo is hiring someone to work on Joe Hewitt's Firebug extension for Firefox. This can only bode well; Hewitt has a limited amount of time and this is a side project....

Who Writes Open Source Code?

According to a recent EC study: [A]t the end of 2005, 61.2% of code had been developed by individuals, according to copyright and credit claims, while 19.2% was claimed my companies, 5.6% universities, and 7.9% foundations. Of those companies, Sun...

Firebug: Now Open Source

The best web development tool available, my friend Joe Hewitt's Firebug extension for Firefox, is now open source. Rock. And rock. The various incarnations of this tool have saved me dozens of hours of work. If it had been around...

Yahoo Mail Opens Up

CNET reports Yahoo is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it."Yahoo...

"Fuck You" Leads to "Fork You"

James Duncan Davidson is absolutely right about DHH's smug remarks: The Canada on Rails conference is getting started and local co-Portlander Robby on Rails has already posted a bit of news about it. Here's another view. David is out of...

My First Movable Type Plugin: EncodeNonAscii

Based on an earlier, fruitless search for a plugin that would keep invalid characters out of my MT-generated HTML, I whipped up EncodeNonAscii. Give it a whirl. It's a ridiculously simple plugin, and I still find it hard to believe...

A Whole Lotta CMS

opensourceCMS is a really cool idea — you get to "test drive" over 40 different content management systems. That seems like a freaking ton, especially in light of their restricting it to solutions that: are open-source use MySQL use PHP...

Spreading the Word on Safari vs. Mozilla

More Google whoring: Why did Apple choose KHTML over Gecko? Why choose Konqueror over Mozilla? Why Safari and not Chimera? Looks like code bloat was a problem, if not *the* problem....

Well, I Tried

Tried to install OpenOffice at work yesterday, following their directions. Didn't work. Or, rather, it installed, but when I tried to launch the program, I got a totally uninformative error message and it exited immediately. Maybe it's because I'm on...

JS for the WWW

The authors of the Peachpit Press book, For JavaScript for the World Wide Web, 4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide have posted the scripts used in their book online....

Free Book

Woo hoo! O'Reily has published their Creating Applications with Mozilla book free and online, via OGL. Rock on!...

Open Source Web Design

In case you're wondering, this was the starting point for my page design. OSWD is pretty cool IMHO ... doesn't use (much less over-use) images and Flash and is a legit way for people to design their pages without starting...