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I will update this post through the day with quick news about the conf.
08:30: Paul opened a CITCon flickr album.
10:00 conf starts. I picked the Build pipeline slot.
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Macromedia announces flash v9 for Linux (expected sometimes in 2007).
At the same time, support for Flash v8 appears to be at around 70% market penetration while flash 7 reaches 95%.
Yet more and more sites are v8 only. I am not a flash addict and usually avoid flash sites (because they tend to overuse flash advertising that pop up under my nose), but I wasn’t able to play Sony/Google Da Vinci’s quest nor to follow the official Roland Garros/IBM web site.
Can someone tell me what flash v8 gives to the developper that warrants to lose a quarter of your users (including all Linux ones)? Is it too costly to support both v7 and v8 from a single code base?
BTW, didn’t IBM decide to switch their desktop to Linux? I guess that once they do that they will put the pressure on Adobe to properly support Linux. Or they will help gnash.
Hp does seem to have some interesting productivity improvement numbers thanks to agile methodologies…
Really interesting benchmark comparing XML performance on various platforms (.Net 1.1/2.0, Mono, Java 32bits/64bits). The Mono guys apparently have their libraries working, althought not yet with a huge performance (but they are working on it).
Now the Java performance was far from .Net 2.0. So I decided to have a look at it. One thing that I would have liked is a test including JDK 6.0 on Linux.
My 3.5 years old Inspiron 8100 Dell laptop is at the end of its road.
I’ve been very unlucky with this laptop. 3 dead hard disks, the keyboard had to be changed once, the motherboard twice. Now both batteries are almost dead (but that’s normal), one PCMCIA slot isn’t working, one USB slot is dead, I had to disable the track point device for good some weeks ago, and now the RAM just died, messing up my file system. Talk about luck…
I guess I’d better by a new one than try to fix that one.
So here are my requirements for a laptop:
- screen 1280 x 1024 should be sufficient. I have 1600×1200 on the current one (15″) and it’s too small. I don’t need to see DVDs on it
- hard disk: I don’t care. I expect to change it to a 7200 rpm anyway. I already have 2 big 2-5″ spare 5400 rpm disks to use.
- memory 1×1G extensible to 2G. Hei compaq: No I don’t want to buy a 2×512 M. Get some clue.
- processor: something that doesn’t kill my batteries too much. Probably a Pentium M. I’d rather invest in a fast disk than a faster processor. My job is about compilation and it’s very IO bound.
- batteries: long lasting. Possible to use 2
- USB2.0 x2, firewire
- DVD burner would be nice, but I can live without it
- Integrated WiFi (Intel if possible, as they’re the one playing nice with Linux)
- warranty: on one side, I’d rather have more than 1 year. On another one, paying 3 years for a non top of the line laptop, especially given my experience with how warranty works. I’d rather keep my money for a replacement laptop if needed.
- if possible, no Operating System. I already have paid my Microsoft tax 3 times for nothing.
- delivery: not in a hurry
Price around 10000 NOK for the stuff. Up to 15000 considering the fluff.
So where am I to find such a gem? Is Dell the only one to let people chose the inside of the beasts?
Browser sniffing is a common technique tyÃ¥ically used to ensure people accessing your web site will receive the content the most appropriate for their browser. Sometimes it is used willingly to make your site unaccessible. Badly implemented browser sniffing can also lead unaccessibility. No matter how good your back-end is, if your users can’t access the front-end, you won’t get to see any of their money. Except if they are motivated, like me.
I will take today the example of KLM, an otherwise famous company, whose JS code prevents me from accessing their site. I am highly suspicious that this code was deployed today (now yesterday), because I had no problem this morning. I sent them a mail and they told me to call their office. If they had the same price on the web and by phone, I wouldn’t mind. But they don’t.
So what’s the issue? Basically I am redirected to a page that says:
I open my javascript console to see a flury of error messages, including one that points me to this piece of JS code:
function checkBrowser() {
var browser = 'unknown';
browser = getBrowser();
if ((browser == 'WIN_IE6') || (browser == 'WIN_IE55')
|| (browser == 'WIN_IE50') || (browser == 'WIN_MOZ')
|| (browser == 'WIN_FF') || (browser == 'MAC_SAF')
|| (browser == 'MAC_FF') || (browser == 'MAC_MOZ')) {
//browser ok, so to 'normal' site
return;
}
else {
//wrong browser, so to 'browsersupport' page
document.location.href = '/travel/klm_splash/browsersupport.html';
}
}
Yes. Right. I use Firefox 1.5rc3 on Linux (I also sometimes use IE through wine). So is my browser unsupported? Or is it my Operating System?
And what about Opera? I wonder what the users of the cool Nokia 770 Linux tablet will say… Or people browsing the web site from their non Windows based mobile phones…
So as I don’t want to spend time finding new plane tickets elsewhere, I will make it so that I can access their web site.
Install an extension to alter your browser User Agent.
I used this:
UA Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051121 Firefox/1.5
And hop! The drawback is that the site doesn’t even know I had issues.
GreaseMonkey is a known powerfull extension that allows you to dynamically modify a site thanks to JavaScript. Much more interesting than changing the User Agent right?
Unfortunately I don’t think it is possible to modify the loaded javascript using GreaseMonkey. What one could do instead if enable the user agent dynamically on this site. I didn’t delve into how to achieve that because my laptop just died…
Opera comes with a pretty powerfull functionality: user.js. It’s even more powerfull than GreaseMonkey.
In particular I could redefine the checkBrowser() function to do nothing:
// ==UserScript==
// @name klm.com - Bypass browser check
// @author Jerome Lacoste
// @namespace http://www.coffeebreaks.org/opera/
// @version 1.0
// @description Bypasses the browser check on klm.com and
// allows access to the site.
// ==/UserScript==
/*
* This script is granted to the Public Domain.
*/
if (window.location.hostname == 'www.klm.com' ){
window.opera.defineMagicFunction(
'checkBrowser',
function (oRealFunction,oThis) {}
);
}
Unfortunately Opera is broken for other reasons on klm.com, and I wasn’t able to test this script. But you get the idea.
Users, when web developers screw up, do not despair. Your imagination (and a good toolbox) may come to the rescue.
KLM, I hope you are happy. Not only did I identify an issue on your site, gave at least one alternative for working around it, and bought a plane ticket. 
Still, I would strongly recommend you to set up a better testing procedure before deploying your web application…
It’s not by habit to put non software information on this blog, but my personal blog got defaced by some malaysian ‘hackers’ and I believe this information can be useful to others.
In the past days my mouse pointer started drifting a lot, like if it was possessed! Sometimes is was going to the top right corner, sometimes to the bottom left. I had the problem before, but this time it wouldn’t go away, even after rebooting.
Even though I can and I do control most of my applications from the keyboard, there are a couple of things where a working mouse is indeed useful, browsing in particular.
I am apparently not the only one and Dell doesn’t do anything about it. They also have a tendency to moderate their forums too much as can be read as the last comment of that thread:
Users: I have locked this thread due to the length of it. If you wish to continue to discuss a topic in this thread, I suggest that create a new thread and link to the page with the post that you are responding to.
Yeahhh… right…
According to the users, it was a hardware problem and related to the mouse tracker (the little mouse button one finds in the middle of the keyboard), purple on 3 years old my Dell Inspiron 8100. I didn’t even try to disable it using software: I took my tool box and fixed it, hopefully for good. I wasn’t using the tracker anyway.
So:
If that saved your day, feel free to put a comment here, send me a mail, or some chocolate
In modern societies, one is innocent until proven.
In the software developer world, one is guilty until proven.
Too many times did I blame the other party for my mistakes.
Think twice, speak/mail once…
- ABI/API
- In tree code: “we make you the honnor of supporting your code”. YOU make the effort to make up to our standards (whatever good they are)
- Internal API in-stability. If you break it, you fix everybody
- publicize API
- plugins & flexibility. Distribution, out of tree code, distributed testing, etc…
I came upon 2 funny blogs today. Or should I say flamy?
In particular, I spent some minutes on the Ceki Gülcü is sick entry.
The good Ceki, of log4j’s fame, has started a new project called slf4j. Apart from having a name as unpronouncable as its author’s lastname, this project’s interest seems to not be understood by the blog entry author not by a poor chap who end up being flamed in the comments.
slf4j is a replacement API for commons-logging. commons-logging is a library aimed at library developers that allows client code to not depend on a particular logging toolkit. This is not something developer of standalone applications should really care about (because they will most probably never have to change their logging toolkit), but it matters a lot to those who write libraries because they don’t know in which kind of environment their library will end up running in.
slf4j allows to chose the underlying logging toolkit at deployment time, thanks to some sort of auto-discovery mecanism. But commons-logging also allows for the underlying logging toolkit at deployment time!
So what is the difference? From a pure theorical usage perspective, not much. From a programmer perspective, on the other side, there are some benefits:
I haven’t had a time to look at the library yet (nor read the full classloader issues document. Dude it’s late), but if all the issues mentionned there are true, it’s worth trying.
BTW, do you use Sun’s Logging framework? I’ve never really switched to it. Log4j is my friend. It works, it’s highly compatible with most of the free software I use, and I personally don’t like the configuration part of the official logging package.
I am particularly frightened when I see core functionality like logging or XML parsing being integrated in the release to an SDK. Those with older SDK versions won’t be able to use it and those with newer SDK versions may hit issues when deploying. It’s really the case with XML libraries (xerces and xalan), which often cause deployment issues when the classpath when one’s classpath is not as it should.
There’s an other entry on the BileBlog, about good/bad design. That’s something I am particularly interested in these days, and will probably address this issue in a forthcoming post. Some food for the brain on that matter with a little entry on Collection vs Iterator by Bruce Eckel.
And while am at it, anyone knew about Safe haus? Seems like a red codehaus to me. Wonder what’s the story behind it…
This summer I presented quilt (v 0.4.2) and CruiseControl (v 2.3) to various attendants. I now make these presentations available.
Some eye candy:
Quilt:
CruiseControl:
Feel free to comment.
You use a remote source control server (e.g. CVS) that you access through ssh.
But now you want to set-up some kind of automated procedure that retrieves/updates the files. That can be usefull if you have a separate CruiseControl server.
So the first thing it to learn how to use ssh keys. I had a former blog entry not so long ago pointing to a good resource. Now this guide shows the transparent use of ssh with rsync and cron. In order to use it with our setup we have to make some little changes.
mkdir -p ~/tmp chmod 700 ~/tmp ssh-agent > ~/tmp/ssh-agent.startup chmod +x ~/tmp/ssh-agent.startup . ~/tmp/ssh-agent.startup rm ~/tmp/ssh-agent.startup ssh-add ~/.ssh/host-cvs-dsa-key
CoffeeBreaks has used a private home server to host its web site in the past 3 years. It was time to move on a real hosting solution.
For those wishing to read past blog entries, such as the JavaPolis coverage, they are still available on the old server.