May 2010
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September 2009
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“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into...”
– Charles Babbage, 1864
June 2009
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“Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.”
– Fran Lebowitz
April 2009
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Generating PDF files in Javascript
A Firefox extension I am writing needs PDF export. One way of making this work cross-platform would be to implement it in Javascript. So, that’s what I did..
It’s called jsPDF and can generate simple PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. No server-side needed. I’ve also got a few ideas for workarounds in browsers that do not support Data URIs well (I’m looking at you...
March 2009
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“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
– Walt Disney
WatchMario takes the Metropolis
“You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.”
– Dr. Venkman - Ghostbusters
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Googlepedia for Chrome Released!
Googlepedia for Chrome is now here! The installation is still rough round the edges since Chrome doesn’t yet have proper extension management features. It should be fairly straightforward though.
How to install:
Download Chrome Channel Switcher
Change your channel to ‘Dev’
Click wrench menu in Chrome, click ‘About’ then ‘Check for updates’, wait for...
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
– Mark Twain
iPhone Library 'Three20' by Joe Hewitt →
From the chap that brought us Firebug and the Facebook iPhone application. Expect good things. :D
Googlepedia for Chrome (Alpha)
Disclaimer: This is very rough and full of bugs!
I’ve finished writing a very experimental Google Chrome version of Googlepedia. This is still very rough. There’s no update mechanism for extensions (or any kind of management for that matter) built into Chrome yet. If you do install it, make sure you come back here for less buggy and faster versions when I manage to hack them together....
“The Internet isn’t free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to...”
– Brad Shapcott
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Firefox support for CSS3 multiple backgrounds →
Firefox will support multiple backgrounds :) Grab a nightly, this is a pretty sweet feature. Safari already does this.
Here’s a test page.
Streamy - Discover and Share →
This looks interesting. Keep an eye on this.
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Google Chrome on OSX
Can’t find a working build of Chromium on OSX yet. The Crossover Chromium is fairly buggy and doesn’t seem to have any extension support. Looks like I’ll be doing the development on a Windows XP Virtual Machine. Yay. </sarcasm>
iPhone 3.0 Screenshot Tour →
I’m looking forward to this…
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Googlepedia for Google Chrome
I’m currently playing around with porting Googlepedia to Google Chome. Their extension support isn’t quite finished yet, but there’s enough there to make a start :)