A bunch of fun links that I found on Neil’s Smaller World:
MiniApache – cut-down Apache with PHP for Windows.
XAMPP – an Apache/MySQL/Perl/PHP etc. environment for Windows.
And for Firefox pimps:
February, 2005
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Feb 05
Good Stuff
23
Feb 05
Firefox Tabs Memory Leak Fixed
gemal reports that the process of fixing the memory leaks when using tabs in firefox is finally under way. I wrote about this a while ago when I stated that I couldn’t believed that 1.0 had been released with this kind of leak. At least it’s finally being fixed.
I’m tempted to start trying nightly builds of the firefox trunk as it looks to be stabilizing a bit more now. I’ll post more if I find it usable.
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Feb 05
Robin Banks and the Jailbirds
On Friday night my band (“Robin Banks and the Jailbirds”) played their first gig – for my sister’s engagement party! We play entirely covers, and tried to use a mix of mostly classic rock songs with one or two more recent “classics” to keep everyone happy.
Highlights of the gig for me were our “signature tune” Jailhouse Rock (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoler), and Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News). We also played Easy by Faith No More which went down a storm, this was particularly impressive given that we had played it only twice previously!
By special request we also played a song from my last band (the oddly named Mt. Ararat) called “Get Back On”. The new band includes all the members of the old one and so we did know how to play it, but it was the first time we’d done so in about 4 or 5 years. It went surprisingly well and we got a big kick out of playing it – I’m glad it was requested!
We wore highly embarassing convict costumes that we hadn’t seen before the night – we were laughing so hard we were a good 10 minutes late going on. When I get some pictures back I’ll post them for all to laugh at.
17
Feb 05
Wordpress 1.5 Released
While we were sleeping, Wordpress 1.5 (“Strayhorn”) was released!
Amusingly, Wordpress uses a similar set of release names to Programmers Notepad – they’re all great Jazz names. Both PN and Wordpress have had Mingus releases, and the new release is Strayhorn. In Matt’s own words:
This release is named “Strayhorn” in honor of Billy Strayhorn the pianist and sublime composer who worked closely with Duke Ellington and wrote tunes like “Take the A Train” and “Lush Life.” We thought he was perfect to represent the power and elegance of this release, which has been under intense development and testing the past few months.
I’ve been running on nightlies of Wordpress 1.5 for a while – it’s fantastic.
17
Feb 05
Domain Move
pnotepad.org is moving to new servers, it’ll take a couple of days for DNS changes to propagate so please don’t worry about any outages.
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Feb 05
SpellBound for Firefox
Just thought I’d point out the excellent “SpellBound” extension for Firefox. SpellBound uses the Mozilla spell checking libraries to provide spell checking in text boxes inside Firefox. The spell checker supports both standard edit boxes and the HTML edit boxes that are becoming more popular. It also supports a number of different dictionaries. Free, and highly recommended!
9
Feb 05
Standard C Clips
Michael Peterseim has contributed some text clips for standard C, available for download and with the next version of PN 2.
Michael came across a problem defining a couple of his clips, he wanted to use the names #include “” and #include <>. In order to use these names in XML, they need to be represented using standard XML entity declarations:
<clip name="#include """><![CDATA[#include "|"]]></clip>
<clip name="#include <>"><![CDATA[#include <|>]]></clip>
Note the use of the pipe “|” character to place the cursor in a clip when a user selects it. If you have text clips of your own that you think others might find useful feel free to send them to me.
Interestingly Michael used some blank clips to act as categorising headers within his clips. One of the feature requests for PN2 is to allow tree-like nesting or grouping of text clips. It would appear that this could be quite useful. What do you think?
