• Jun 10, 2004

    Seen elsewhere - Free eBook "Budget Design"

    Didier Hilhorst and Dan Rubin of SuperfluousBanter fame have written and released for free (for 7 days) Budget Design: Increase Profit by Improving Process. After 7 days, it'll set you back $9.

    All web developers should take a look at it (even if your budget is larger than the US trade deficit), because it's quality stuff from 2 quality web developers (and now, writers).

  • Jun 10, 2004

    Seen elsewhere - Firefox 0.9 Tour

    Neil Turner has a comprehensive article that takes you through what's new in Firefox 0.9.

    I was going to do the exact same thing when the full 0.9 release arrives, but Neil has done an excellent job with his article and I just may forego that and just point you to his article instead (which is what I'm doing now).

    Neil also has posts frequently on Mozilla to his blog. Check out his Mozilla category archives.

  • Jun 8, 2004

    Firefox profile directory to change again

    The profile directory for Firefox will be changed (for the last time) to Mozilla/Firefox/ (from Firefox/), as Ben Goodger announced at the MozillaZine forums. This follows up on the last profile directory change from Phoenix/ to Firefox/. This also seems to mean that the profile directory for the Mozilla suite will go into Mozilla/ while having a Firefox/ directory under that (i.e. Mozilla/Firefox/) for Firefox - a little weird.

    As usual, beware of inadvertently losing your profile if you use Mozilla Backup - be sure the check that it takes into account the directory change when migrating across nightly builds.

    Users of the Firefox 0.8 release, don't worry, because I'm sure Ben and his team will have a neat, transparent migration script for your profiles when Firefox 0.9 comes out. You probably wouldn't have to do a thing.

  • Jun 7, 2004

    Firefox 0.9 could be out in a week

    Ben Goodger (Firefox engineering lead) has announced mozilla.org is targeting a 12th June or 14th June release date for Firefox 0.9. The Extension Manager will be fully enabled in this build, as will the new update mechanism for themes (and extensions, of course).

    When it's released, be prepared to see mozilla.org go down again (as was the case with the 0.8 release of Firefox) thanks to the Slashdot effect. Hoard your extensions and themes in advance (well, at least those extensions which are not yet 0.9-compatible). Remember that BitTorrent exists if the Mozilla.org servers go down. You have been forewarned.

  • Jun 2, 2004

    Comment spam masquerading as a TrackBack ping

    I've been getting hundreds of comment spam but this particular one was different because it was meant to appear like a TrackBack ping at a cursory glance.

    A new comment has been posted on your blog redemption in a blog, on entry
    #156 (How to really kill Windows Messenger).
    https://chuyeow.wtf/archives/2003/11/21/ how_to_really_kill_windows_messenger.php

    IP Address: 218.145.25.80
    Name: *****
    Email Address: edrufk@yahoo.com
    URL: http://www.*******.com

    Comments:

    Read on for the skinny... redemption in a blog: How to really kill Windows Messenger...

    And some of the things in those spam comments are just plain sick. You guys are sick, you hear that?

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