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Meeting with Aptana’s Kevin Hakman – Talking Jaxer

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

Regular readers of this blog will know I am a big fan of Javascript on the server. Through its Jaxer project, Aptana has been at the forefront of the server-side Javascript renaissance. As I’m in SF right now (mail or tweet me if you’d like to meet up), I was pleased today to be able [...]

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More Adventures in Firefox Extension Land: Submitting to Mozilla

June 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

I recently explained how I created my first Greasemonkey script as an experiment, then converted it to a standalone Firefox plugin/extension/add-on using an automated tool. Official homepage here. The experiment continues, as I subsequently submitted it to Mozilla, and it’s now been approved as an official plugin.

I’ve been curious about the process people go through [...]

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Including modern words in modern dictionaries

November 15th, 2005 · 3 Comments · HumansAndTech

What manner of 19th century public domain dicitonaries are packaged with 21st century software? For Montogomery Burns, these word lists would be just spifflicastic, but maybe not for the average citizen.

I just installed Thunderbird 1.5RC1, keen to check out the spell-check. Neither “blog” and “podcast” were recognised as valid words, despite one of the other [...]

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