Posted in Linux, Tools on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You have already installed Ubuntu 8.04, right? Everything was fine, you got Firefox 3, perhaps even installed a beta of Firebug since 1.05 does not work with it, played around with some applications… you know, the usual things people do when upgrading an OS.
But, have you seen the new anti-aliased emacs? No, really, have you [...]
Posted in Tools on March 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have been recently involved in a discussion about modifying styles for HTML elements: usually it happens by changing the class attribute of an element from one style rule to another, which are typically similar, differing only for one declaration or two — but, I was asked, would it be possible to directly modify CSS [...]
Posted in Tools on March 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
During last Friday’s lunchtime, I was fiddling with some basic JavaScript for a couple of proposed exercises (with due credit to David Reed for his nifty JavaScript assignments) in the context of the LTI-LA course, and in particular I was trying to dynamically set image attributes. Let’s suppose that, somewhere in a XHTML page, you [...]
Posted in Tools on December 14, 2006 | No Comments »
Have you ever tried the WayBack Machine?
I recently used it to get a copy of the word list Dave Thomas gave as test bed document for his Kata five (Bloom filters) and six (anagrams). Today, I tried it again to get an old webpage describing JavaLog, another Prolog interpreter written in Java to which I [...]
Posted in Tools on December 12, 2006 | No Comments »
Thanks to Shelley Powers, I came to know the existence of Firebug, already quoted by other influential bloggers but overlooked by myself at the time of those readings. Firebug is a Firefox plug-in that lets you play with in an interactive way with various parts of web pages during browse and development activities. After a [...]
