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- 10 days from report to patch for new Firefox exploit
- Looks like the protocol handler problems just won't die. On July 20th, Jesper Johansson reported that Firefox 2.0.0.5 didn't quite get all the bugs out of passing strings to external programs registered as protocol handlers. 10 days later, Mozilla has released a patch in version 2.0.0.6. The first version of...
- Tags: Web Browsers, Scripting, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- 3 critical flaws fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.5
- An automatic update to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5 last night closed 8 security holes, 3 of which were listed as "critical", according to the release notes. Fixes include:Critical MFSA 2007-23 Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer MFSA 2007-21 Privilege escalation using an...
- Tags: Web Browsers, Scripting, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Apple iPhone development secrets revealed
- As I mentioned before my long vacation at the beach ahhhh, the iPhone can only be 'programmed' by writing web pages that can be viewed on the device. For the most part this involves making sure your web apps work with the resolution of the screen and with the idiosyncrasies...
- Tags: Web Browsers, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Apple, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Dumb move: iPhone's "sweet, innovative" dev solution is neither
- "Weeeeeaaaak." That's how one blogger described the iPhone support for 3rd party developers announced at WWDC07 today, and after watching the video of this morning's keynote address by Steve Jobs I have to agree.Jobs explained that Apple has been "trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities...
- Tags: Web Browsers, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Apple, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Sprinkle Ajax with some scouring powder by Google Gears
- Google asked me if I wanted to be in on an embargoed news release item earlier today and I said no. Companies never give you enough information in those things, so if you write something early to be the first to post, you end up missing a feature, leaving something...
- Tags: AJAX, Community, General, Google, Programming, Scripting
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Sun CTO promises Flash-like experience from JavaFX and new runtime
- On Tuesday Sun Microsystems unveiled a new consumer-oriented product line called JavaFX, which among other things has a new language for interactive user interfaces JavaFX Script. Sound a little like Flash? Thats the idea, says Sun CTO of Software Bob Brewin, and a new streamlined runtime system will help make...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, Java, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- JavaFX takes center stage at JavaOne
- Sun is set to shake up the world of software development with the unveiling of JavaFX, a new product family that will cover a complete spectrum of development from the desktop to the Web to mobile devices. Formerly referred to by the codename "F3", the JavaFX platform will rejuvenate the...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Sun wows Java crowd with NetBeans 6.0 preview
- Hundreds of attendees for Suns fourth annual NetBeans Day in San Francisco will get a glimpse of the future of NetBeans today as Sun shows off the latest preview release of NetBeans 6.0. This year, NetBeans Day was included as part of CommunityOne, a free one-day conference devoted to community-based...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, NetBeans, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Dissecting Silverlight
- Two new technologies from Microsoft should be on the radar of every Rich Internet Application developer. The first is Silverlight 1.0, a canvas-like control which is programmed by browser JavaScript. Its fairly light weight (1.4M download), and works in all major browsers on Windows and MacOSX no Linux yet. It...
- Tags: AJAX, General, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Programming, Scripting, Sun
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest
- Adobe has announced that most of the Flex SDK will be open source starting with the "Moxie" version, due out later in 2007. Specifically, all of the components of the Flex SDK needed to create Flex applications, including the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript...
- Tags: Scripting, Programming, Licenses, Java, General, Eclipse, Community, Commercial, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Google AJAX Feed API simplifies Web 2.0 mashups
- Google is set to announce a new library today to help AJAX developers incorporate RSS and Atom feeds into their web sites. The Google AJAX Feed API will provide easy access to public data feeds through JavaScript.Until now, including data feeds in web applications has been a painful process involving...
- Tags: Scripting, Programming, Java, Google, General, AJAX
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Is Flash better than Java?
- For various reasons, Java applets have never worked all that well but we some folks use them anyway, for example in business charting and other graphic visualizations. Over the past few years alternatives to Java in and around the browser have been gaining traction, especially Flash. In this article I...
- Tags: Sun, Scripting, Programming, Java, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.3 goes gold
- Two months after it was announced, the first fully open source version of the Google Web Toolkit GWT has gone production. Tech Lead Bruce Johnson writes: As we had hoped, GWT 1.3 RC 2 has proved stable and is ready to graduate today, making build 1.3.3 the official GWT 1.3...
- Tags: General, Java, Licenses, AJAX, Scripting, Community, Programming, Google, Google Web, Google Web Toolkit
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Top stories from 2006
- With 2007 around the corner its traditional to reflect on the past year and pick out the topics that were the most important, most read, or generated the most comments. Before I do that, though, I want to thank all my readers for making this one of the top blogs...
- Tags: Sun, Programming, Google, Microsoft, Scripting, Community, Patents, AJAX, NetBeans, Web Browsers, Licenses, Commercial, Java, Eclipse, Mozilla Firefox, Nintendo Co. Ltd., General
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Google Web Toolkit goes 100% open source
- Youve heard the Ivory soap slogan, "99 44/100 percent pure". Until today you could say much the same about the Google Web Toolkit GWT. While most of GWT was open source, a few important pieces were binary-only. Today that all changed as Google made the entire GWT 1.3 Release Candidate...
- Tags: Google Web Toolkit, Google Web, Google Inc., Google, AJAX, Scripting, Community, Programming, General, Eclipse, Java, Licenses
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Google opens up to outside contributors
- A few weeks ago, Google opened up development of their Google Web Toolkit and released the whole system under the Apache license. Now theyve taken the next logical step, by accepting their first outside contributor to the project: Sandy McArthur. I caught up with Sandy after the announcement to ask...
- Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, Licenses, NetBeans, AJAX, Scripting, Community, Programming, Google, GWT, Sandy McArthur
- Blog posts 2000-01-18
Additional Resources
- Kludget Engine 0.9.8 (Windows)
- Kludget Engine is an open-source widget engine that can run Apple's Dashboard widgets on Windows. It has a stock of basic widgets included with the installer package. But thousands of widgets are available on the web to install and try out. The application is based on Webkit which means it...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Dashboard, Engine, Mindhyve, Kludget Engine, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- FastTrack Scripting Host 5.3 build 1942 (Windows)
- FastTrack Scripting Host is a complete replacement for VBScript/WSH, Bat files, PowerShell and all other scripting tools. Once you tried FastTrack, you will never use any of them again. You can create logon scripts, install scripts, backup scripts, administrative tasks and anything else you use scripts for with awesome end-user...
- Tags: Script, Microsoft Windows, Fasttrack Software, FastTrack Scripting Host, Backups, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Komodo Edit (Windows) 5.2.2 (Windows)
- Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla code base and is now licensed under the same...
- Tags: GPL, ActiveState Tool Corp., Komodo Edit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Thinking Home 2.2 (Mac)
- Thinking Home is the easiest-to-use, affordable home automation solution for Mac OS X and is now even better! v2.1 boasts a modern design that delivers performance without compromising ease of use. It is the only Mac app to store a schedule into an ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A)! Thinking Home...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Thinking Home, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
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