http://alephzarro.com/blog Viktor Zigo Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:20:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What to say. I made Firefox 3 compatibility update of XPather. Go, and get it from XPather’s site or soon also from AMO. Bye. Oh yes, since FF 3 beta 4, the DOMinspector is not anymore distributed with FF. You need to install it as a separate extension. Oh, XPather has ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2008/03/16/xpather-14-on-firefox-3/ You do Ruby. You are on *nix. You have a task you need to schedule using cron from your scripts. Later you schedule another task. After some time, and probably from another script, you want to unschedule/cancel the first task ... How do you do it? Fetch CronEdit ... ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/12/19/easy-cron-scheduling-in-ruby/ Do you want to have photo albums (on your site)? I did. I wanted a comfortable but not "over-web20-ized" user experience, and above all, simple and pragmatic content management/control. Believe or not, nothing I came across was just the right thing. Too heavy, too weak, too ajaxy, unacceptable license, etc. ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/11/15/rhotoalbum-a-ruby-photo-album-generator/ In Summer 2005 I started few home-made experiments with workflows for governing complex processes - such as system integration on Web layer. I did this as a part of my PhD activities. The main motivation had been my deep disappointment with all the "enterprisy" workflow systems bull**** laying around. I ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/07/26/acquisition-of-lumberjaczk-technologies/ It goes like this: Firewatir, the Firefox port of WATIR, depends on JSSh. And JSSh does not install & run nicely on Linux. Clear ? Annoyed by this situation, I looked what's the problem with this JSSh. To make the story short, success - downlaod the working JSSh for Linux here. Update ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/03/12/jssh-for-firefox-on-linux-because-firewatir-loves-it/ Common problems: a repository in on server A and needs to be migrated onto server B; a single repository needs to be spit into few separate ones; what to do with local working copies after server migration; the repository storage method needs to be changes e.g. from berkleyDB to ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/01/13/subversion-move-migrate-split/ I did it again! Yet another installation of Subversion for "standard" project development purposes, i.e. using Apache2, WebDAV, SSL, Basic Authentication. In case I do it again ... and soon again, I recorded the installation howto logs. NOTE: The target OS is Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, and Feisty. I use $NAME ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/01/07/installation-of-subversion-on-ubuntu-with-apache-ssl-and-basicauth/ A new update of XPather compatible with Firefox 2.0 is out. (Oct 27 2006). Additionally it contains some new features and bugfixes, e.g. auto-expansion of DOM tree for multiple XPath results. Check out the complete changelog for details. As usually it is available at XPather's site, and in few weeks it ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2006/10/27/xpather-13-on-firefox-20/ Hola hey! A new version of XPather is out since Sep 29 2006. Though it may take some time to appear also on AMO, it is already available at XPather's site. The new version brings few severe bugfixes, improvements, and two new features: Cross-frame XPath evaluation - You can evaluate your XPaths ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2006/09/29/new-version-of-xpather-11/ Two weeks ago I announced the new project - the LumberJaczk. There I described it as: An open-source technology that enables better ways to get and use information on the Web. It let people run and create light-weight on-top-of-Web applications and share them with others. Hacking out your own "best ... http://alephzarro.com/blog/2006/06/01/on-top-of-web-applications-address-lumberjaczkorg/