Just a short pointer to the Firebug Firefox extension which I've been using for a few days now and found invaluable.

It's sort of like the Webdev Toolbar we all know and love but with focus on AJAX and CSS/DOM information.

Definitely recommended!

 

I finally brought xeditor into a state where one can likely use it without too many fears (well aside of the fact that it won't ever go back to using non XHTML of course).

Fixed the dreaded entity bug (which is really more of an ezxml weirdness) and also noticed that special chars (such as umlauts ;) were mangled and hacked my way around that, too.

To top it off, I did some experiments with copy pasting formatted texts from Word and OpenOffice 2 on Windows (in both IE6 and Firefox 1.5) and I'm content to report that it retains most formatting (at least as far as it actually makes sense in HTML). Tables, Fontsize, bold all remain. And even more to my surprise, it even works between Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0.2 on Linux! w0000t

As always, you're welcome to try it here

My mother needed a printer for her iBook. After the totally unusable Brother 3820 I had bought for my father last year (wasn't even cheap), I decided to try Epson this time (only other single ink offer at below 150E). At first I had wanted to go for the cheapest single ink MFC they had (Epson DX3850) but that one didn't list OSX on the package. Not wanting to gamble (and much less for 15 difference) I then decided to take the DX4250 (~100E retail, likely cheaper online).

Comes with single color pigment ink (which supposedly should be text marker resistant and that seems to be true, surprisingly). Compatible ink is about 6-7 per 250p cartridge which is decent enough for a low end printer (not quite as cheap as Canon but still).

Printer works perfectly on OSX 10.3 after downloading the necessary driver DMGs, same goes for the scanner.

As for Linux, that works like a charm as well. Gutenprint 5.0 (as supplied on Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper)) had no issues at all in recognizing the printer, I however had to chose the driver myself (the printer identifies itself as DX4200 to OSX and Linux, it seems). Launching Kooka I didnt even have to install any driver, it did simply offer me the only attached scanner and I was ready to go.

So if you want a reasonably cheap ink jet MFC that works on any OS, this is recommended . If you're out for photoprinting, try it first (personally I don't see the point, lab prints are cheaper and much better quality anyway).

With the Stylist Feature there is now a panel on the right side that offers contextually sound CSS styles for the user to chose from.

Like for example a factbox

or just a simple emphasize tag.

I've also added the Smilies plugin (it seems like anim gifs don't work inside Xinha, so if you insert such, it will freeze at some point in his life) and on a more serious note the Equation plugin:

The main issue with xeditor so far was that it didn't do any sanity checking on the input it received. This now got solved by the integration of SafeHTML from http://pixel-apes.com/safehtml/ (up for you to decide if that's good enough for your needs).

Further, Xavier is working on a way to use this on sites that already have some content using original ezxml and convert it on the fly. That could be a while off, still.

We've also added some rough docs about the architecture of this beast.

Being very much alpha stage software, it currently only lives in pubsvn, get it from there and try it on a development site, not a live one!

After 3 years of not leaving Switzerland (which I believe is bad for your mental health but maybe that's just my normal state ;) I'll be flying to Sri Lanka tomorrow.

Got XGL working on my Portege M200 (GF5200) without any hickups. KDE support is currently slightly lacking (it mostly works but needs to use gnome decorations for some reason) but on Gnome it works charmingly! eyeKandy here we come. Sadly, I did not get it to work on on my Radeon desktop. But hey, GF cards are cheap ;)

Update: For people refered here by Google: check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XglHowto but be warned that you will likely have to use the gnome decorators and parts of the Kicker wont work very well. However it is not very hard to get working on Geforce cards. Good luck!

I've fixed the issue with not updating the order for some users in the frontend (turns out the required cache clearing is integrated just fine but it needs the ContentObjectID in the form params as well, can't really figure out why, but never mind, after adding that it just works ^TM).

Try it here or here, as well

I've had this working many months ago but never came round packaging it which I've finally done now.

So I present a small demo of it (please note:while Anonymous user can reorder the things, displaying the reordered objects somehow fails because of some cache glitch; after clearing the cache the objects are in the new order, but more importantly, for admin users it works without cache clearing so it's probably some permission related thing).

Swiss startup ImCoSys plans to launch a Linux smartphone with GPS, WLAN, GSM/GPRS and SD card slot at the low low price of 300EUR in June. If they really deliver that and the UI is halfway sane, I'm SOOO gonna buy one.

Also see Golem(German) and LinuxDevices

ODM E28 has an interesting Linux WLAN phone as well (slightly smaller than the somewhat big ImCoSys one) at LinuxDevices but I have no idea at all where one can get such in Switzerland...