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Coding Like it’s 1982: The RubyCamp Writeup20080128051327
Coding Like it’s 1982: The RubyCamp Writeup
Eric PromislowLast Updated: July 5, 2019ruby
I took a break from working on Komodo to build a rough Google Maps API app with Rails, and presented it at Vancouver RubyCamp this past weekend. Along...
Exploring Firefox Event Objects without Debugging20080125023531
Exploring Firefox Event Objects without Debugging
Eric PromislowLast Updated: July 4, 2019firefox
For such a powerful tool, Firefox/Mozilla’s event objects aren’t very well documented. I still haven’t found one definitive, concise...
XULRunner + PyXPCOM20080121010051
XULRunner + PyXPCOM
shanecLast Updated: July 4, 2019python packages
I wrote this to the PyXPCOM list, but then thought I’d blog it for those who don’t read that list: A while back we open sourced the bulk o...
Call to Firefox extension developers20080118194636
Call to Firefox extension developers
shanecLast Updated: July 5, 2019firefox
Mark Finkle has been making a call out to extension developers to update their extensions for Firefox 3. His call, and some recent extensions th...
The Future of Software and Social Networks20080117024706
The Future of Software and Social Networks
Eric PromislowLast Updated: November 5, 2018software industry trends
My last few blogs have been pretty techie. I’ve even been wondering if I should write about some messing around I’ve been doing on w...
Improving Ajax Performance by Being Selective20080107014752
Improving Ajax Performance by Being Selective
Eric PromislowLast Updated: November 5, 2018
I spent a few days over the holidays messing around with Rails 2.0 and the Google Maps API. Sure, these technologies aren’t the newest.&nb...
XML+CSS+Komodo==Cool Document Preview20080107011147
XML+CSS+Komodo==Cool Document Preview
shanecLast Updated: November 5, 2018komodo
A number of times recently I’ve had the idea of preview-ability for different XML formats come up. Komodo has a simple browser preview bui...
Supressing the Windows Error Report MessageBox with Subprocess and Ctypes20071128001155
Supressing the Windows Error Report MessageBox with Subprocess and Ctypes
Eric PromislowLast Updated: June 20, 2019
Hands up, anyone who’s written a Python script that was supposed to run for a long period of time unattended on a Windows box, only to come in t...
Adding New Languages to Komodo with UDL20070126024627
Adding New Languages to Komodo with UDL
Eric PromislowLast Updated: October 27, 2020komodo
Kid: Adding a New Language to Komodo with UDL -1. This Tutorial doesn’t work with Komodo 4.2 The API changed slightly when 4.2 was released, but...
Ok, time to do this blogging thing seriously again…20060612191621
Ok, time to do this blogging thing seriously again…
david-ascherLast Updated: November 5, 2018blog
For a few months, I really dropped off the blogging wagon. Too much real-world stuff to do. But now that that’s calming down a bit, I feel it...