http://xarg.net/blog/ Xarg blog OpenACS 5.0 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:22:23 GMT http://xarg.net/i/xarg.png http://xarg.net/blog/ 52 80 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=268487 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=268487 Dave Hyatt just posted Safari now passes the Acid2 test. There were two issues left that needed to be resolved. which is indeed a good thing, but even better is that at the end he says: Here are the patches for all of the problems fixed in Safari to make the test pass. And then of course provides all the patches! That the fixes come back to the open source code base is a great thing. Also, seeing how little had to actually change and what exactly those changes were makes it hard to ... Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:22:23 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=268332 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=268332 I have been looking vaguely at distributed SCM's again, with the idea that we might switch to Arch, svk, or monotone. One thing I have been watching is the stuff around git, which is what Linus is now shifting to for the kernel patch management -- and I ran across this hilarious and 100% accurate assessment of peoples concerns about SHA1 vulnerabilities... in fact, this attack cannot even be proven to be malicious, purely via the email from Malice: it could be incredible bad luck th... Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:51:08 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265821 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265821 General Bits is a column loosely based on the PostgreSQL mailing list pgsql-general. To find out more about the pgsql-general list and PostgreSQL, see www.PostgreSQL.org. I had known about this newsletter for a while but noticed recently they had an rss feed. It's a nice collection of articles and getting a feed for it is even nicer. Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:33:46 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265799 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265799 This article (via Jon Sequeira) addresses something we have been thinking about a lot here. Kellan (I?m guessing) offers some insightful thoughts about hosting software for nonprofits. He raises two challenages facing folks who build nonprofit solutions using so-called ?niche? platforms like Zope or Rails? well, really anything other than PHP, right? Our current project is to extend the software used for CASWeb which is OpenACS based, to have stronger CMS functionality and to support v... Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:48:09 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=20314 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=20314 About the only story I remember having read in elementary school was Examination Day by Henry Slesar. It was originally published in Playboy in 1958 and elsewhere and it somehow found it's way into my fifth grade reader... I wonder if it's still read in elementary school in the US? Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:13:26 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265687 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265687 I have been using a personal css file with firefox for a while and recently added two rules: *:target { border: 1px solid red !important; } a[rel="nofollow"] { border: 2px solid green !important; } The first puts a red border around an anchor element and the second highlights links that are rel nofollow (I want to watch what people are actually doing with this -- and so far the answer is not too many people do anything at all with it). Here is an example of using :target from ... Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:13:58 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265231 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=265231 The postgres performance documentation has gotten pretty good. Another great place to look for this sort of stuff is this article PostgreSQL 8.0 Performance Checklist by Josh Berkus and Joe Conway (frequent posters to the pgsql-performance list -- which is itself a tremendous resource for the lore of db tuning); They are running the site for their upcoming book Power PostgreSQL and have a blog as well. Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:58:25 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=254394 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=254394 Open source software development should strive for even greater code maintainability - A study of almost six million lines of code tracks how freely accessible source code holds up against time and multiple iterations. Nice issue focused on QA. More wisdom than concrete data though. Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:23:01 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=252674 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=252674 Nice survey of things you might like your blog software to do Beginning with a question of whether blogs can be hosted on a specific Web site, a colleague of mine wondered if I'd give him some suggestions about getting started blogging. Here's a version of the answer I e-mailed to him. I think I would be a better blogger if I managed to post here to answer the questions I spend time answering for one person in email. Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:24:16 GMT http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=251564 http://xarg.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=251564 This article about two column layout was good but the neatest thing about this site was the cool bilingual layout -- It switches based on clicking the sidebar and includes a tiny text version of the alternate language. Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:08:27 GMT