Monday, August 17th, 2009
The easiest way is to install the standard Debian 5.0 package instead of the Ubuntu-specific package. Full instructions can be found in Ubuntu Forums.
For the technical among you - there seems to be an issue with the statically linked package for Ubuntu. The dynamic package for Debian seems to work ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Here is a short article I wrote for OperaWatch on Google's new browser.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
This is a short guide for people who want to use Flash with Opera under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy):
1. Enabled the proposed repository in System->Administration->Software Sources.
2. Go to Synaptic and install the latest flash plugin from the proposed repository.
3. Go to Opera's website and install the 9.50 beta version.
4. Start ...
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
My good friend, Daniel Goldman, the founder of Opera Watch (a blog covering the Opera browser), just announced that he joined Opera Software as their technical evangelist. Congratulations!
P.S. I should say that I am partly to blame since I introduced him to the Opera browser several years back.
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
One of the things that came up recently at work is a way to resolve IP addresses to hostnames client-side without any server calls. Here are some of the possibilites that I thought off :
o Using Javascript to call Java's java.net.InetAddress class to resolve (only works in Mozilla and Opera, ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Opera just released version 9 of their browser (see this).
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
I recently ran across a nifty project called "TiddlyWiki". One of the things that struct me as interesting features from the programming point of view is the fact that it is able to load and save itself to the user's hard drive using Javascript without any kind of server side ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
For quite some time I have been trying to track down a strange Javascript error. In one of the forms in our application, we have a dynamically generated set of DOM form fields generated on the fly via Javascript. Something like "document.myForm.appendField(field);". The page in question worked just fine in ...
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