Building a compressed prototype + scriptaculous with YUI Compressor

Skip the reading and go straight to the latest version of protoaculous. A while back I started using protoaculous.js, a combined and compressed version of the Prototype.js and Scriptaculous in a single file. Unfortunately, as time went by and both Pr… more »

Mugshot 1.1.45 on SuSE 10.3

Previously I produced an RPM for Mugshot 1.1.40 for SuSE 10.1. I could never get a more recent version to build on SuSE 10.1, but since I recently upgraded to 10.3 I decided to have another go. It seems the most recent Linux version is 1.1.45, wherea… more »

Adobe onAIR London 2008 (Afternoon)

Review: onAIR London 2008 - Afternoon Sessions at onAIR London 2008, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 12:15 to 17:00 Deploying and Updating AIR Applications (Serge Jespers) - Serge covered the nuts and bolts of deploying AIR application… more »

Adobe onAIR London 2008 (Morning)

Review: onAIR London 2008 - Morning Sessions at onAIR London 2008, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 10:00 to 12:15 Free stuff and breakfast - Everyone who attended got a free t-shirt and an O'Reilly Shortcut, Flex 3 Early Evaluation: As… more »

openSUSE 10.3 on a Toshiba SatellitePro 6000 (upgrade)

A mere five months after the release of SuSE 10.3 I finally got round to upgrading my aging laptop. Of course, I was still on 10.1, so I'd already waited ten months before that :) I downloaded the main ISO and the extras one, and booted off the CD.… more »

IE8 Beta 1 - A Review

Product Review: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Microsoft released the first Beta for Internet Explorer 8 the other day, so I downloaded it and installed it on a virtual machine so I could test it out. This post records my first impressions, even if it took… more »

Fixing Jack's formmail.php for register_globals = off

For many years now, I've used various versions of Jack's FormMail.php to handle simple form submissions on various websites, mostly 'contact us' forms. The script has gotten a little more sophisticated with time, but it's still one of the simpler ways o… more »