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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.

Worth1000's Apple contest

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Published on Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:29

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"Apple Inc. made their mark in the computer arena. They revolutionized the music player industry, and now they're poised to take over the phone market. What will Steve and the gang come up with next? or this contest, you're required to sneak us into Apple's R&D facility and show us what new products they are currently giving the patented "Apple" look. iToaster? iFork? iBus? iPencil sharpener? You tell us.
As always, have fun, be creative!, avoid cliches, and follow the guidelines please. You will have 48 hours to submit so make your entry count!"

 Hundred of hilarious entries! Read More HERE

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

Online tool for webmaster: usability, performance, SEO

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Published on Tuesday, 06 October 2009 00:00

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This is an instant, free and no-registration tool to analyze the SEO performance of a URI for a given key phrase. Reports include a variety of useful information and structured recommendations to improve overall effectiveness. Try a few reports and judge for yourself. The tool aims to encourage the use of standards compliant, user-friendly and accessible code while at the same time helping website-owners to attract more visitors to their websites. Of course, no automated tool can substitute for a human analysis by an experienced search engine optimizer.

 

Read more: Online tool for webmaster: usability, performance, SEO

XDepend: static analysis tool for JAVA empower Code Query Language

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Published on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 00:00

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I’ve been  granted a free professional license of XDepend, thanks to Mat Huston, XDepend lead developer.

XDepend is a static analysis tool for JAVA developers that provides 82 code metrics, several real-time code visualization panels, code base snapshots comparison, architectural and quality rules (edition and real-time validation). The tool is a frontend to support the Code Query Language (CQL) to query a code base the same way you would query a relational database. You can using CQL, write and design your own rules and conventions for your code base.

XDepend

• Analyses your java byte code, your test reports and your source files to extract structural information and 82 base metrics via static analysis.
• Provides complementary and interactive views on the same information. A Tree-Map view helps you easily identify the big one from the small one. The dependency matrix, the graph view and the detailed view help you gain insight in your code base.
• Has a Code Query Language (CQL) is a specific XDepend language, very similar to SQL, that helps you dynamically find what you are looking for.

What is also interesting me a lot is the possibility to make XDepend part of the Maven lifecycle, but that will be part of a new post. For now I am trying to understand the added value on our company software solution Innoveo Skye®

Watch the screen cast

Spring analyzed by XDepend

More to come later

Note: .Net is also having a similar tools NDepend, build on the same engine developed by Patrick Smacchia.

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.