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Busy Day at the Office for Mozilla

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The much publicized release of Firefox 3.0 and the goal of setting a world record for the most downloads in 24 hrs has the Mozilla servers on the ropes.
Here’s a direct link to the setup file: Firefox Setup 3.0.exe. Good luck!
Technorati Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, FF3

Some of My Favorite Applications and Utilities

Friday, October 27th, 2006

I’ve been in a sharing mood lately. Continuing that theme…here are some more of my favorite things:
Apple

Headdress
Allows you to host multiple sites on your local machine. It’s basically a GUI Apache config file editor. It also plays nice with MAMP.
TextMate
My current text editor of choice for PHP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. [...]

Operating System Not Found

Friday, October 13th, 2006

My home PC (an ancient HP) running Windows XP Pro crashed today (again). I guess Visual Studio, Sql Management Studio, Internet Explorer and an install (updated Atlas Control Toolkit) were too much for the old girl! When I rebooted The following message displayed:
Operating system not found

I rebooted again and everything was normal. [...]

My New Favorite Development Tools

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Every once in a while you come across something that is so cool you don’t know how you ever lived without it. For years I’ve been writing PHP code locally and then FTPing it to a remote server to test as I debugged. I recently discovered a combination of two tools that let [...]

Do you have Mono?

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Responding to a recent comment by farmerbob, I decided to investigate The Mono Project. According to the website…

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.

Excited about the prospect of building .NET applications on my Apple iMac, I [...]

Visual Studio 2005 - Apple iMac Continued

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Recently I wrote about installing Visual Studio on my Apple G5 iMac. I reported successful functionality, but less than successful performance. As promised, here is the *quote* solution *unquote* to my Apple/Visual Studio pipe dream.
The Solution
I found a handly little freeware app called Synergy. Synergy allows you to share one mouse and [...]

Visual Studio 2005 on my Apple G5 iMac

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I love building applications with the .NET Framework, especially since the release of .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I also love Apple computers and OS 10.4 “Tiger”. I want these great technologies to all work together! Unfortunately the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Microsoft proprietary technologies and only run on [...]

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