What i’ve been reading recently

I’ve been using Ruby and rails at work for about a month now, and I have to say, it’s really growing on me.
From the beginning, I was amazed at how much you can do with so little code. It’s been a month, and I have some impressions. They’re not unique (it seems that everyone [...]

I’ll bet you didn’t know that my mom is an 1337 h4×0r. I was talking to her this weekend, when she had a question. She said she went to a web site, and when she entered the URL from the magazine that was reading, the blue bar on safari would only get to the w.
This [...]

I released jUploadr 0.8 today. It’s really getting solid, and there are improvements over 0.7 across the board. I added a ton of features, fixed all the open bugs, and improved the usability.
It’s a spectacularly solid release, and eclipses the official uploader’s feature set. I finally got to see the official flickr uploader in [...]

I’ve had a couple head-scratcher bugs from a couple of jUploadr users, and unfortunately, they all have the same cause.
The users were complaining about random crashes, and especially scary, the inability to save their preferences. After asking in vein what the trouble was, one of them sent me in a stack trace. From the trace, [...]

With all the new activity with jUploadr I decided to go ahead and implement image rotation. When I looked at the SWT javadocs, I was pleased to see that they added a Transform object for 3.1. Now rotating objects will be as simple as

Transform tx = new Transform(event.display);
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I found a very helpful way to submit forms that have the submit button disabled. All you have to do is fire up Firefox’s DOM inspector, click on the form button, and remove the ‘disabled’ attribute in the DOM node menu.
Then the button becomes active, and you can submit. This is great for intentionally causing [...]

I released jUploadr 0.7 today. It supports the new authentication API so Yahoo! users can log in with their yahoo name. It also doesn’t store your password locally, or transfer it over the internet (thanks new authentication API!).
I also fixed a bunch of usability issues that were brought to my attention, as well as [...]

More good news for Macintosh jUploadr users (both of you!). For a lark, I filed a bug for the long-standing transparency issues regarding image overlays. To my surprise, this bug was fixed in about three days, so now jUploadr on the Mac looks just as good as it does on Windows and Linux.
I’ve [...]

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