Saturday, July 28, 2007
Ars Technica has an excellent write-up about the evolution of KHTML, an open-source web browser layout engine.
The story is fascinating as it talks about the forking of the project which is a normal occurrence in the open source world.
Also revealed is the tumultuous relationship between the open source community and the big software companies, in this case Apple who forked HTML to build WebKit (used in Itunes, Safari) and Nokia who forked WebKit for its smart-phones.
The most interesting bit in the article to me is the unforking of the above projects which is a rare event and usually means good things for the developers who can be confused between what to choose as both platform are related but different.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
In April I posted here about Life expressed as a series of pie-charts.
Many metrics were probably missing but Xkcd.org has contributing to one:
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Torrential rains poured in England yesterday. London was not spared as seen in these images.
Soon visiting London will look like that.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
I wanted to test a captcha plugin for Wordpress.
My host provider has a php compiled with GD, but I wanted to test it locally on my computer.
Although php 4.4.4 is installed by default on Mac OS X 10.4.10, for some obscure reasons it’s not compiled with GD.
Looking on the web didn’t presage well for the installation.
And it turned at as complicated as advertised. I did installed Freetype And Freetype2 using Fink but then got loads of compilation errors when compiling GD with them. Compiling GD with just Freetype is not enough to make the application I’m testing working.
I just wanted to replicate my hosting environment on my Mac and I really didn’t want to spend much more time tinkering so I used Marc Liyanage’s packaged binaries for Mac OSX and that did the job.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
I want this shirt when traveling the south of Spain 
Ropa USB con ventiladores: para andar fresquito este verano: ”
Esta ropa alimentada mediante USB presume de un par de ventiladores localizados detrás de la camisa que aspiran el aire desde fuera enfriándolo. Mantienen a raya el olor del cuerpo, considerando lo mucho que uno suda durante el verano.“
(Via www.faq-mac.com.)
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
A compilation of alternative accommodation, trendy because labelled as “green”.
I actually like the Loft Cube (too easy to mispronounce as ‘Love Cube’) , and if installed on the rooftop of a London building, the views from all side must be amazing and I quite see myself in such dwelling. It’s not expensive, especially compared to London prices.
It also happens that the first Loft Cube has been installed in London, on the 8th storey of a building near Tate Britain …
Now, if only the cube could come with an instruction manual on how to approach local authorities and building management companies …
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