J. Carlos Navea – loconet

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!

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[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.

Day after day Google is releasing new projects that have this geek constantly interested. This latest one is called Google Code. Google Code is a website hosted by Google for discussion of Open Source projects related to Google and its services. This is a great win for both Google and the Open Source movement. Kudos to Google for being able to see the benefits in Open Source.

SpeakEasy is embracing Firefox by recommending their customers to use it. They have released an extension for their customers which basically adds a SpeakEasy homepage icon and a menu with interesting links. Nothing that hasn’t been done before but a very interesting move from this ISP. Hopefully their enlightened customers will spread the word to their families and friends.

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I’ve been wanting to beef up the blog section of this site with a proper administration area for publishing entries, allow for comments, backtrack urls, rss/atom feeds, etc. I finally got around doing it by integrating an already existing package. The challange was to integrate the blog package with my existing code with minimum modifications to the package so that upgrades can be done without major problems later on. I played around with Movable Type but it didn’t quite allowed me to do what I wanted. After a bit of research, I noticed several bloggers are moving away from Movable Type to Wordpress. Wordpress is an open source, php based, MySQL back-end blogging system which is freely distributed under the GPL. The administrative tools are great with the exception of a few quirks like not being able to edit existing users and lack of page navigation on the posts listing. I was able to integrate Wordpress’ front-end with almost no modification to the code itself other than some css and adding one or two php lines. The Wordpress code itself is bit messy and not very well organized but it does the job for now.