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Firefox 3.0 Beta4 is amazing

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Published on Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:00

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I am running with Firefox 3.0 beta 4 since it is available (so since 2 weeks) and the progress made concerning memory management are so huge that you cannot start using it NOW, especially if you are always keeping Firefox open for hours or days. I am now able to say that Firefox is on par with my other favorite browser Opera 9.5, speed and rendering time are very close. I still prefer Opera through as I always keep 25 tabs open.

It is time now for me to test the Beta 5!

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is available in 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. You can download it HERE

Why You should not use Firefox 3.0 Beta?

• If you can not live without your favorite extension, note that Google toolbar is not compatible, but web developer is.
• You can not start the old Firefox 2.x.x and the new Firefox 3.x at the same time, bookmark is shared

For all developer out there reading my blog, I recommend You to read what the Firefox team has done to track down all memory leaks and reduce memory usage, this article is worth reading!

Download Firefox Beta5 NOW:

Are Anti virus and Windows not flawed???

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Published on Sunday, 17 August 2008 00:00

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It can't be that my anti virus want to scan my disk every  day (default settings) and take 23 hours to do so.

• Either windows stop and sandbox all applications using an hypervisor...and KNOW what
  applications are doing or what is written down to disk so the anti virus scan can be optimized
• Or disks must be a lot faster! my 3 eclipse version and 10 workspaces (1'500'000 java files) are clearly
  showing the limit of actual hard disks. Defrag is done on a weekly basis...

At the end, these anti virus are just sucking my CPU brute power (peak 20%) and worst of all a good part of IO
power, and trust me windows IO are just hilarious compared to Linux, try eclipse under Linux it just fly!

Pictured is AVG but this post is not targeted against it. They are ALL ridiculously slow.

Windows just can't protect itself from Internet and mitigate attacks that it need a range of 3rd
party software...sucking power and my time. We are far away from the Internet OS

Firefox 3.5 available for general consumption

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Published on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:00

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see the what's new page here and Mike Beltzner giving a video tour of all the newest awesomeness.

All my plug-ins are still working after the update to the latest version, my homepage is loading faster (as fast as in Google chrome)

After the update you’ll be redirected to this page http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ where you’ll be able to test a video embedded in HTML 5.

Gimp 2.4 is available

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Published on Monday, 26 November 2007 18:59

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 GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages (77).

Version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is now available.

The release note contains the list of new features and some nice screenshots. You can download this semi professional tool at no charge

GIMP  run on any NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista download HERE), and also on Macintosh  (download HERE)
Windows binary can be grab here while linux version are available at the main site

Some useful links to finish this small blog post GIMP Documentation

Need for Speed? mod_pagespeed from Google

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Published on Thursday, 04 November 2010 22:05

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mod_pagespeed is the latest addition to our family of products, performing on-the-fly optimization in the Apache™ 2 HTTP Server. It provides webmasters and web developers that manage their Apache 2 configuration with technology that applies Page Speed performance best practices automatically. Webmasters can get the benefits of the optimizations without having to manually going back and fixing the performance issues that Page Speed detects.

This solution is valid if you do not want to carefully optimize your site, and it come for now at huge initial CPU costs till the cache is filled up. The load on my server has proven to be unacceptable (for me) and I was forced to switch it off. But it may work on your server depending on the page size, number of visitors. Authors are working hard and communicating a lot on the official mailing list to reduce that load and improve the code in the coming weeks

If you trust me, you can download the library module libmod_pagespeed.so for Apache 2.2

from http://drivers.waltercedric.com/

Check before installing the MD5 keys of this file

# md5sum -b mod_pagespeed.so
187995e3623a222ec5b54c331ee7ffaa *mod_pagespeed.so

If it matches, drop it into your Apache library folder /usr/lib64/apache2/

Build Apache module mod_pagespeed yourself

On my OpenSuSE system, I was forced to install first

zypper in gcc-c++

Then read  http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/wiki/HowToBuild

you should get after a successful build

• ./out/Release/libmod_pagespeed.so
• ./out/Release/install/common/pagespeed.conf

Install the module library

cp ./out/Release/libmod_pagespeed.so  /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_pagespeed.so

Configuration

After installing mod_pagespeed, it can be customized and configured by editing the Apache configuration file

/etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf

so you can run

# cp ./out/Release/install/common/pagespeed.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf

Create some directories

# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/
# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/cache/
# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/files

Has to be writtable by apache

chown -R wwwrun:www /var/mod_pagespeed/ 

and finally restart apache

 apache2ctl restart

There is a lot of available settings that are all well explained in this page http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using_mod.html

Here is my /etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf stripped of all comments as an example:

LoadModule pagespeed_module /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_pagespeed.so

    SetOutputFilter MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER
    ModPagespeed on

    ModPagespeedDomain www.waltercedric.com
    ModPagespeedUrlPrefix                "http://www.waltercedric.com/mod_pagespeed/"
    ModPagespeedFileCachePath "/var/mod_pagespeed/cache/"
    ModPagespeedGeneratedFilePrefix "/var/mod_pagespeed/files/"
    ModPagespeedRewriteLevel CoreFilters
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_css
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_javascript
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
    
    # This page lets you view statistics about the mod_pagespeed module.
    
        Order allow,deny
        # You may insert other "Allow from" lines to add hosts you want to
        # allow to look at generated statistics.  Another possibility is
        # to comment out the "Order" and "Allow" options from the config
        # file, to allow any client that can reach your server to examine
        # statistics.  This might be appropriate in an experimental setup or
        # if the Apache server is protected by a reverse proxy that will
        # filter URLs in some fashion.
        Allow from localhost
        SetHandler mod_pagespeed_statistics
    

Troubleshooting

You may be forced to remove mod_deflate

You can disable mod_pagespeed by adding in the url  ?mod_page_speed=0

Some mod_pagespeed filters

• add_instrumentation Adds client-side latency instrumentation.
• extend_cache Improves cacheability.
• collapse_whitespace Removes unnecessary whitespace in HTML.
• combine_css Combines multiple CSS files into one.
• combine_heads Combines multiple elements into one.
• move_css_to_head Moves CSS into the element.
• elide_attributes Removes unnecessary attributes in HTML tags.
• inline_css Inlines small external CSS files.
• inline_javascript Inlines small external Javascript files.
• outline_css  Moves large inline tags into external files for cacheability.
• outline_javascript  Moves large inline tags into external files for cacheability.
• remove_quotes  Removes unnecessary quotes in HTML tags.
• remove_comments  Removes HTML comments.
• rewrite_css Minifies CSS.
• rewrite_images Rescales, and compresses images; inlines small ones.
• rewrite_javascript Minifies Javascript.

Links

• http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
• http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/

Firefox 6.0 available

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Published on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:08

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Made to make the Web a better place, a new look, super speed, even more awesomeness

Download Firefox 6.0 for Linux, Windows or Mac.

Download for ANDROID

• Get Firefox for Android Free from the Android Market
• Release Notes
• List of Supported Devices »

Search And Replace Within Zip Files with Regular Expressions

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Published on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:53

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There is a lot of shareware and freeware (jEdit, Notepad++) to do complex search and replacement in files but none is supporting these kind of operations in zip files spread across many subdirectories. Luckily Oxygen Editor can

• Do case sensitive or insensitive searches,
• Search and replace across multiple files in multiple subdirectories,
• Search and replace also in ZIP files,
• Advanced regular expression search/replace,
• Is free to evaluate for 30 days!

Use the Menu "Find" and select "Replace in Files" or use the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+H

Oxygen can also create backup of every changed zip files,  as xxxxxxx.zip.bak as shown in the picture above.

Good FTP client

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Published on Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:00

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If You are in the business for searching a good FTP client to maintain Your homepage under linux and are already deseperate with KBEAR stability (default KDE ftp client). then You are ready for trying one of these:

• gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines. You can install it using YaST. It is a lot more user friendly (if You're working with windows ftp client) and a loooot faster than kbear...I only using this one now.
  

• GUI FTP client for X Window System (looks like WFTP old windows ftp client) but it is also working nicely.

YOu can visit the screenshots section for both of these tool before deciding which suit more for the job.

Atlassian just acquired GreenHopper

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Published on Monday, 01 June 2009 00:00

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Atlassian just acquired GreenHopper, a popular JIRA plugin with over 800 customers.

GreenHopper is a JIRA plug-in that adds a broad collection of agile project management capabilities to JIRA, and extends JIRA as a powerful platform for agile development teams. GreenHopper simplifies the planning and organization of tasks, workflows and reporting for agile teams.

It introduce in JIRA

• Card management:  Visualise issues, tasks and user stories as graphical "cards", color-coded and dynamically editable.

• Planning Board: Quickly create, assemble, sort and prioritize project tasks with drag-and-drop simplicity.

• Task Board: Track progress through simple, graphical views of remaining tasks across projects and teams.

• Chart Board: Customizable dashboard, dynamic burn down and burn up charts.

Learn all about GreenHopper at www.atlassian.com/greenhopper. Unfortunately it is not a free extension… ($700 to $1150 to add to JIRA)

Install PHP support PDT in Eclipse Indigo

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Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:13

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Developed by Zend and IBM, Eclipse PDT add support for PHP development and allow to focus on the development of complex PHP-driven web applications. There is currently no package ready to download hence this small how to

How to install PDT

• Download any version of Eclipse 3.7 Indigo from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and install.
• Once installed, launch Eclipse and navigate to Help->Install new Software.
• Add the Indigo update site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo if you don’t find it in the list.
• Once the Indigo Update Site is added, add the PDT 3.0 Update Site http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/3.0/milestones/ 

Wait till download complete and restart Eclipse to enjoy PHP support!