"...If you pass the path of a XUL application.ini file to Firefox with the -app parameter, the application will run just like it would with an actual XULRunner runtime. When Firefox 3 is finally shipped, developers will be able to easily deploy their third-party XUL applications far and wide..."
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Mozilla Labs reveals animated PNG editor for Firefox
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"Support for animated PNG (APNG) images is one of many compelling new features in Firefox 3. Although the feature has been supported since March, it hasn't been widely tested yet due to the lack of APNG images. That could soon change, because Justin Dolske of Mozilla Labs has created an APNG editor for Firefox 3.
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Django in command-line scripts
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"Now here’s something that seems unusual… using Django in command-line scripts..."
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FireFox 3.0 Has Inbuilt Support For Video, SVG Is Pretty Cool
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"While you might have heard of Flash, SilverLight etc which are proprietary application frameworks to create RIA(Rich Internet Application) and have been developed by Adobe and Microsoft respectively. But did you know that Firefox has inbuilt support for various frameworks such as SVG, Theora and OGG, which can be used to create and build RIAs..."
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Setting up Satchmo on a Debian Server
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"At the request of people on the satchmo-users mailing list, here’s my step-by-step guide to installing Satchmo on a Debian server..."
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74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials
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"Ruby on Rails is quickly becoming one of the most popular modern programming language framework combinations. Specifically, Ruby is a programming language that has been around for a few years and Rails is a framework for Ruby that is a bit newer and is just about the hottest thing in application and web development right now.
Read more »Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about Wikipedia
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10 things you did not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited prior experience with the project, such as journalists, new editors, and new readers. These explanations should not surprise experienced editors, but hopefully will help the rest of the world to shape an informed opinion of our work.
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Why the Alt Attribute May Be Omitted
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"...The benefit of requiring the alt attribute to be omitted, rather than simply requiring the empty value, is that it makes a clear distinction between an image that has no alternate text (such as an iconic or graphical representation of the surrounding text) and an image that is a critical part of the content, but for which not alt text is available...”
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The Python docs have been redesigned for 2.6
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"The Python docs have been redesigned for 2.6. They’re beautiful. The docs for a module are on a single page now (rather than splitting over multiple pages), they’ve added unobtrusive permalinks to individual sections and the whole thing is built on ReST rather than LaTeX."
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Perfectly Cromulent Image Cropping with the GIMP
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"I’m guessing that most people with a digital camera or a web site have spent time cropping pictures. There are lots of programs that can do this. Often we start out by using the ones that happen to be installed, and we manage for better or worse with the functionality they happen to have. In this post I hope to show you that the GIMP is a great tool for cropping pictures..."
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Managing your mobile phone with floAt's Mobile Agent
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The modern mobile phone is a powerful device that you can use to store contacts, manage calendars, check email, and even browse the Web. But that’s not all: install floAt's Mobile Agent (FMA) on your laptop or PC, connect it to your handset, and you can use the combo as a versatile communication tool.
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Microformats Introduction
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"Microformats are little snippets of information that are semantically tagged so you know what they are..."
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Firefox Profiles
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"Firefox profiles allows you to create multiple personas to use when starting Firefox. If you have Firefox, then you’ve already been using Firefox profiles, you just didn’t know it. Most people will probably only need the default profile and will never create others, but for web developers this is a must. So what do you do? It’s easy..."
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Mozilla's Joey Seeks To Merge the Mobile Web with the Desktop Web
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"...Here's how it works: someone can use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and Live Bookmarks to a phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date. The person can then use the phone's web browser or the Joey application on the phone to view and manage what has been uploaded..."
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