See details on the Mozilla Hacks blog.
Tag: open source
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Firefox 11’s WebGL 3D page inspector is most awesome
A part of Firefox 11 Aurora’s new dev tools. Pretty spiffy!
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Open source everywhere, LG TV edition
This makes me happy.
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True to our core. WP pun intended.
I think Open Source is kind of like our Bill of Rights. It’s our Constitution. If we’re not true to that, nothing else matters.
Matt Mullenweg (who’s turning 28 today), in 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012.
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NASA’s Plan for Code – open.NASA
Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.
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EOL Robot Band covers The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson
See EOL Robot Band covers The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson. Bonus points for the GNU/Linux sticker on the guitar. 🙂
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A Taste of Open Source XBMC
I’ve been discussing home theater/media management software with Kevin, Mark, Otto and friends and thought I’d post a few screenshots of my OSS XBMC setup for them. Nothing fancy: just stock XBMC with the Aeon Nox skin. running on an older Mac Mini with an external 2TB drive, and serving to the household over Gigabit Ethernet.
Although both very nice and built upon OSS XBMC, I didn’t use:
- Boxee because I didn’t want/need to have the concept of [hosted] profiles in the household yet. It only complicates things with the kids, and if I stay logged into my account, they’ll start tweeting in my name.
- Plex, because I didn’t really need the concept of a server any mor than what XBMC offers out of the box, I need Linux support for some setups, and I already run Air Video for iPhone streaming.
I might change my mind on either of the above, but migrating won;t be a big deal since in the end, it’s just XBMC -> XBMC-like. I should be all future-proofed, or as close as I could be.
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Nanaimo’s Hackathon
In an effort to encourage the creation of new applications, Nanaimo is hosting an Open Data Hackathon on April 30. The city will open up its public data and allow computer programmers free access to it. The goal of the event is to see what kind of creative projects developers can create with the data.
Via Nanaimo, B.C. hosts ‘hackathon’ to help improve local apps.
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.vimrc Tweaks
I’ve recently made the plunge and standardized all my text editing needs around vim. That is to say vim when in local or remote terminal sessions and macvim when editing local files.
http://twitter.com/#!/stephdau/status/51275806772707329
Since this has lead me to tweak my .vimrc file, I figured I’d post its current incarnation for posterity.
[sourcecode]
set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 noexpandtab
set nowrap
set ruler
syntax on
filetype indent on
autocmd FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP
autocmd FileType javascript set omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
autocmd FileType html set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType css set omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
autocmd FileType xml set omnifunc=xmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
autocmd FileType c set omnifunc=ccomplete#Complete
[/sourcecode]Here’s what it means:
- tabs config: I like my tabs to be real tabs, but show as 4 columns/spaces wide, not 8
- nowrap: most of my edits involve code and I don’t like soft text wrapping in that context. I just use
set wrapwhen I need it instead - ruler: displays the current cursor’s position (line/col) at the bottom right, which means I don’t need line numbers displayed and save some screen real-estate
- syntax: I like pretty colors when editing code 🙂
- filetype indent: cursor remains at the same tab stop when editing indented code and going to a new line.
- autocmd: sets code completion (AKA: Omni Completion) via ctrl-xo for PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, Python and C
Those are the only configs I’ve found myself needing at the moment, but they made a huge difference in my daily productivity. Maybe they will for you too.