J. Carlos Navea – loconet

After many years of using eXTReMe tracking as a quick, and convenient way of tracking visitors, I have decided to stop using it. The main reason for my decision is the suspension of my account (without prior notification) for the simple fact of not having the link on their button. While I understand their interest in having a link and realize that it is part of their TOS, I no longer see the point in using them given that there are various others equal or better free alternatives one can use without the need for silly restrictions such as this. Bye bye eXTReMe Tracking, it’s been good but no thanks.

An interesting way of fetching for the browser history (at least part of it) has been posted by Jeremiah Grossman. More than a security flaw with the browser itself, it is more of a clever exploitation (hack) of some of the DOM functionality offered by most modern browsers. The trick involves going thorugh a predefined list of commonly visited URLs (ie: www.google.com, www.microsoft.com, etc), writing them out to the document as anchor elements with their :visited class modified to a predefined value, then traversing the list of anchors checking to see which ones have their css values altered. Whichever anchor has the altered :visited properties can be assumed to be a URL in the browser history.

Here is sample code that should work in Firefox. There are versions that work for IE as well.

So i finally decided to upgrade wordpress. It has come a long way and I’m very impressed with the new admin tools. Nifty upgrades. Additionally, I’ve redone the theme of the page and will continue working on it during the next few days, hopefully adding the remaining pages that are missing right now. I’ve also added a spam image protection to the comments’ forms in hopes of getting rid of those annoying daily couple dozen spam entries.

You can now upgrade lget to work with 1.5 by clicking install link below.

During the next few days I will try to put back the firefox section of this site. I will also be updating the addons.mozilla.org download as soon as possible.

For those interested, just changing the install.rdf to 1.5 will not work (else I would have released it sooner ). It seems like with the 1.5 upgrade, some of the chrome structure changed and some of the functionality needed by lget to emulate the “Save as” was no longer there. Hopefully there are no major issues. I’ve tested it under 1.5.0.1 on WinXP/sp2 and works *as expected*.

Once again, apologies for the delay in this release and thank you for the feedback!

install 0.2

[Feb 20, 2006 Update]: If any one would like to help with localization of the official release, please contact me directly (loconet at gmail dot com).

The following localizations are on their way to be added for the next release:

• fr-FR
• de-DE
• es-ES
• cs-CZ

Is upper management finally seeing what most of us knew ages ago? This is good news.

Open source software got an enterprise shot in the arm recently when Fidelity Investments Inc. created a policy and governance structure that gives open source and proprietary products equal consideration in buying decisions.

Fidelity has more than a dozen open source packages in production and is willing to evaluate open source options in almost any application, according to Charles Pickelhaupt, a vice president in Fidelity’s Center for Applied Technology. A new review board has been set up to weigh licensing options, which are one of Fidelity’s biggest open source concerns.

Read more here

I had to do a flash update on the site. Don’t be surprised if some of the sections are missing. I will get to fixing the rest of the stuff as soon as possible. If there are any questions/concerns, email me at: loconet @ g.m.a.i.l . c.o.m

For those of you wondering what is going on with lget, don’t worry I still plan to update it for the upcoming Firefox 1.5. I haven’t had much time lately but I think I should see an opening of free time soon.

In the mean time, I haven’t had much time to look at the extension/internal changes on 1.5, does anyone know what replaced installed-chrome.txt and chrome.rdf to run an unpackaged Firefox?

Edit: For those of you wondering, chrome.rdf and installed-chrome.txt were replaced by manifest files in the chrome directory. In the case of browser core components Example: chrome/browser.manifest, In the case of extensions, they are specified in chrome.rdf in the profile’s chrome directory.

Does anyone know where to get a cheap mortgage loan?

After using MySQL 4.1 for quiet a while at work and seeing how it is getting closer to what most DBs demand now adays, I’m excited about this new release. I learned databases in Oracle and this release brings the Open Source database poster child closer to that level. Some of the features include:

• Views (both read-only and updateable views)
• Stored Procedures and Stored Functions, using the SQL:2003 syntax, which is also used by IBM’s DB2
• Triggers (row-level)
• Server-side cursors (read-only, non-scrolling)

Let’s hope MySQL’s main feature (performance) was not compromised with these new changes.

More info about the release here

Well, 24 years ago today I stepped into this world. What does being 24 mean? hmmm…

Looking for Intermediate/Senior PHP Programmers for a contract (length undetermined right now – atleast 2 months) in the Toronto, ON area.

Skills needed:

- Web design components knowledge: XHTML, CSS.

- At least 3 years of professional experience with PHP. At least 6 months of PHP 5 experience or Java experience.

- At least 3 years of SQL experience. Experienced in MySQL 4.1 under Innodb.

- Proven experience of OOP Design Patterns.

- Ability to, after minimum training, jump into a big project under way and start contributing ASAP.

Skills that would be a plus:

- Knowledge of the Mojavi framework version 3 (http://www.mojavi.org)
- Knowledge of Propel (http://propel.phpdb.org)
- CSS Tableless layouts

Company: Commercial Design & Multimedia – http://www.commer.com

If interested, contact me:

J. Carlos Navea
Project Lead.

If i get any more information, I will post more later.