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Performancing - Powerfull Firefox extension to help enhanced blogger to manage our sites FireBug - Console/DomInspector/Other_Usefull_Things instrument for enhanced developers Source, Downloadblog.it.

A new version of this very powerfull browser was released. We released Shiira 1.2.1. It is the Universal Binary. Shiira can run natively on both PowerPC and Intel based Mac. And we implemented the auto filling feature. Your user names and passwords are automatically filled in the Web form. They are stored in the Keychain which is a standard password management tool of Mac OS X. What’s new of 1.2.1 ...

Developers of Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino are working on a Universal Binary release: they have promised a official release in march. By now, here are sufficiently stable releases. But, problems still remain: Java-plugin and Flash-plugin does not run, right now. On MacIntel (if you are so lucky ;) ) use Firefox build for PPC over Rosetta. Source, Melablog.

Official NetBeans 5.0RC1 page. Source, alessiopaolucci.com. Here are some of the cool features in this release: Developing NetBeans Modules Matisse GUI Builder Servers Web Frameworks Web Services Editor Enhancements Code Completion Refactoring Version Control Debugging Other Usability Improvements New NetBeans Add-on Packs Personally, I prefer Eclipse much too much. But, also Eclipse would make a Matisse-like GUI editor… 😢

A big one: Linux Shortcuts and Commands. An italian book that have a dedicated chapter: Linux Facile. Source: OSSBlog.

Linux, as we can expect from the linux-comunity, are ready for the EFI system that will substitute the old BIOS system on our (x86) machine. EFI is the boot-system used on the new MacIntel machine, presented from Apple at Jan 10. What it means? It means that we can install and run on EFI-enabled machine every Operating System, also which that does not “understand” EFI (WinXP is the biggest example). Here the home page of elilo, the EFI linux boot loader.

A collection of howto on Gtk+ on the rich DeveloperWorks website from IBM. 2 articles are available right now: Why use Gtk+? How to use Gtk+ Source, OSSBlog.

!= This funny article is here: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm. Thanks to KM.

Today, with my friend and co-worked Sbatman, we were trying to understand how the famous prototype.js library works. For not-Ajax developer: Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 developers everywhere. After an afternoon without appreciable results ( 😢 ), Sbatman found that documentation online: Developer Notes for prototype.js. ...

Thanks to Treviño for the howto (in italian). But, for high-speed ubuntu/debian users, click here for the .deb.