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flosswadm – prezentacja

Jeśli ktoś byłby zainteresowany, do DevmoPL dodałem prelekcję z konferencji Wolne Oprogramowanie w Administracji Publicznej.

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Ivor – rebirth

After almost a year of break, I’m a bit back to coding Ivor. My Object Oriented framework for PHP 5 that emulates the API of Java and gives the user some background tools for his application (like load-balancing, workers, SOAP communication, plugins etc.)

This is a small teaser on how it will process any GET/POST parameters communication.
This part was introduced on some coding-night with Hawk long time ago when we were working for dev.php.pl. Well, maybe it’s time to go back there?
I think it’s pretty clean and solves one of the biggest security fackups with PHP request handling. The ability to overwrite $_GET/$_POST arrays.

What do you think?

P.S. updated link

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Lightning 20050922

In case anyone would like to test the current state of Lightning I builded this extension.
You can download it from here. It’s not too stable ATM, but according to Simon they’re getting nearer and nearer 😉

Just launch your Thunderbird 1.5 beta and install the extension.

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Most underestimated Open Source tool

Yesterday I found a special edition of some computer magazin with “100 best Open Source apps”… Cool.
I started thinking about most underestimated open source tool. The tool that doesn’t exist in media, that has no vibrant group of activists, that is not attached to PC magazines, that is not mentioned weekly on ./.

My choice is Ardour. Great, extremly proffesional audio workstation. It’s open source, platform independent, free, powerfull and stable, yet I never found any article about it, any review… Silent.
I’m using Ardour on regular basis to compose and mix music and I find it perfect.

If you know any other app that could be added to Ardour here, drop a note please.

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Minimo 0.0.9

DougT posted a note that Minimo 0.0.9 is there!
Also, the first 3 people who’ll find non-duplicated bugs will get some stuff from MoFo! 🙂

Doug is also gathering the device matrix on which Minimo works or not!

I’m very interested in quiris’s review ;>

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AviaryFun

Troche humoru rodem z #aviarypl: (uwaga, to nie sa oficjalne stanowiska AviaryPL lub Mozilli Foundation!) ;p

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SIP + Gecko = ZAP

Alex just published a big post on what’s going on with ZAP project which aims to develop SIP client in Gecko.

If everything goes well, we’ll have 0.1 release this week!

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Congratz to Opera!

Finally Opera became free changing it’s state from adware to freeware.
It’s a good day for us all. It’s a (as I said previously) a great motivation for Mozilla folks since it’s
the first Firefox’s competitor on the modern browsers mainstream market.
Unfortunately it still has “MSIE 6.0” in user-agent name – and this is the very last thing that melts the competition. Once this will be fixed, all arguments of low Opera market share will disappear.

Another issue is the money. Opera seems to be pushed by Firefox to make this step, that’s obvious. I’m not too happy to hear some marketing bullshit like “After 10 years we suddenly discovered that users don’t like adverts in their browser! So we took it away. We are so cool! “. Opera is either in great financial condition and browser market is the way they want to advertise themselves, or they’re in bad shape, and realized that it’s ‘now or never’ for them. My bets are on former one, but we’ll see… soon…

Anyway, it’s a great time on the browser market. The web is speeding up, technologies are finally once more being developed, we’re moving toward the new way of creating web applications, and modern web browsers are able to handle those new technologies. The web is free, and users are the winners of this competition.
From my point, as a Mozilla coder I can promise you that we will be working hard to bring you the best tools, easiest to use, with the greatest engine under the hood. Heads up to Firefox 1.5, and, you can just start sniffing what’s for Gecko 1.9, what’s for Mozilla 2.0, what’s for Firefox 2.0, soon to beta-release Lightning, and some plans around Thunderbird (not mentioning pre-1.0 Seamonkey and Camino). Think twice before comparing Mozilla technologies with Opera, Konqueror or Internet Explorer.

Saying that – for users, this day is a good one. Opera – welcome to the free world 🙂

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How to say “crash”?

Woo… this idea is cool. How to explain to user that his app just crashed?
Kollaboration project is awesome!

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MNII

Today I spent 2 hours at the Ministry of Sience and Informatization (MNII) with Piotr Waglowski and Władysław Majewski.
What I can say is… They’re all using Firefox! (not suprised? hah!)