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Getting and Setting Extension Preferences in firefox
There is a good tutorial at xulplanet on retrieving and modifying mozilla preferences, but there isn’t much information about creating sets of preferences when you are building an extension. The process for creating a new preference turns out to be the same one you use for modifying an existing preference. The defacto naming scheme [...]
XUL Hacking
I’ve tried building things with XUL a number of times before without getting very far, but over the weekend I managed to get a mental lock on how a XUL app hangs together. I’ve managed to create a firefox extension which pops open a sidebar, queries a rest-based web service, and does something with [...]
DevEdge Returns
Sweet! Netscape DevEdge is back after disappearing mysteriously in October.
Ruby on Rails Session Container Performance
Based on the comment to my last entry I hunted up Scott Barron’s Session Container Performance in Ruby on Rails. After reading it I had a look on my server and found that the PStore had generated thousands of session files. This wasn’t the cause of the performance issue I was having [...]
DevEdge Goes Dark
It looks like Netscape DevEdge has been taken offline. Mitchell Baker is currently trying to recover the content so that it can be hosted somewhere else. It would be great if it could be recovered; there were some really useful articles on that site.
Table Rows Hide and Seek
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately developing a web application which does some nifty javascript and CSS tricks. One of them is inline editing of rows of tabular data; the user selects a row and the items within it change to editable input fields. Behind the scenes this is done by having two [...]
MySQL Forever
Well, possibly not forever, but for the foreseeable future, where the choice of database is mine to make.
As part of the redevelopment of rubhub, one of the things I’ve been doing is porting the existing database to MSSQL. I made the decision to go with MSSQL initally because it was 1) available to me, and [...]
Bloglines API
Bloglines has expanded their REST-based API offering and provided some documentation.