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08.01.13
Posted in Blogroll, Product Ideas, Random Thoughts, Tech at 5:13 pm by Liv 
Time for another idea for you — and I guess more to the point for the guys at ShareThis. (If you don’t know who they are, they are the company behind the sharing buttons at the end of each of my blog posts, which allows my visitors to share this onto major social / professional networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and so on.) As a side note they also have a pretty nice Firefox extension (sorry, Google, this is still the browser of my choice!) which you can install from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ShareThis/.
Without advertising their solution too much, what I like about it is that it allows a publisher to gather all the sharing buttons in one single plugin and configure which ones to be available — allowing you to concentrate on the networks you are interested in sharing your contents on. (Also love their “share by email” feature, which allows you to import contacts / email addresses from your gmail for instance and use them, rather than typing them by hand!)
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25.09.12
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 3:39 am by Liv
I posted before an article about how to use Oracle’s (well, Sun’s, since it was started really before the Oracle acquisition) HTML/JMX agent to monitor your apps via JMX here. For those of you who went ahead and decided to use that interface, you probably noticed a small (but rather annoying bug) in that component — or maybe you haven’t, in which case, you will know how to avoid it if you read this.
It’s not a big deal to be honest, as you are about to see — especially if you are dealing with clean code or code you’ve written yourself and understand the functionality ahead. But if you are trying to use the “help” facilities of Oracle’s JMX/HTML console you might find this rather annoying.
As a side note, I’d be more than glad to submit a patch for this somewhere, but bloody Oracle has discontinued this component 
So if you find out where I can submit the patch, drop me a line and let me know — much appreciated in advance!
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28.10.11
Posted in Blogroll, Tech at 2:16 pm by Liv
For the heavy SquirrelMail users, you are without a doubt using your address book a lot! (Unless you have a really good memory and can remember by heart any email address in your address book! Personally I can’t! 
And if you do, you might have contemplated using the Autocomplete Plugin for SquirrelMail, which does auto-completion of email addresses based on nicknames or first name + surname (or both!). I must admit, I love this little plugin as it saves me a lot of time and it’s quite easy to use.
Unfortunately it only works with Internet Explorer! Well, this is at the time I’m writing this (2/Dec/2006) — future versions of this plugin will probably include the fix that I’ve submitted for Firefox, however, if you don’t want to wait until the next release of the plugin, here’s how you can change it to work with Firefox or any other Mozilla browser.
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12.05.08
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 4:08 pm by Liv
For those of you who tried to put together a “flatten” function cross browser to eliminate consecutive spaces and/or trim some text that is retrieved from the HTML page itself, you might have noticed that a simple regex of the kind
/\s+/gm
is simply not enough and occasionally Internet Explorer would still return a string with multiple consecutive space characters! The reason for that is that Internet Explorer does NOT treat
(non-breaking spaces) as a space — and therefore the \s won’t match it! In order to include this in your match, look at W3C list of HTML entities, and it transpires that is the same as — in other words 160 is the decimal code for this character (which is A0 in hex by the way). So to include this when searching for spaces, your regex now becomes:
/(\s|\xA0)+/gm
and you’ll notice that now you “catch” the non-breaking spaces in IE as well as Firefox (which does the right thing and treats the non-breaking spaces as proper spaces) — yahoo!
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27.04.08
Posted in Blogroll, Random Thoughts, Tech at 2:42 pm by Liv
I was talking the other day with a friend of mine who’s by no means a techie — however, she decided to switch to Firefox (rather than using the pre-installed Internet Explorer which comes with Windows). I was a bit puzzled (in a good way) to find out about this so I asked why. And the reason I was given was left me speechless:
- It’s faster than Internet Explorer!!!
At first I thought perhaps I didn’t understand exactly what she was trying to say, but no, she was quite firm about it: Firefox worked better and faster on her PC! Talking to her more about it to try to figure out how did she get to this conclusion, I realised what was going on: obviously, by default, Windows uses Internet Explorer as a browser — and that is the only browser you will get pre-installed on any Windows that comes with a new PC you might have bought from PC World, Currys etc. Once you start downloading some utilities to customize your PC (MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger to name just a few), these by default tend to install their own toolbars in Internet Explorer — and that is because most people when installing something just tend to go Next, Next, … Finish – without (un)ticking any of the option boxes presented during setup. And that means before you know it, when you start Internet Explorer it will take forever because you will have an MSN toolbar loading, a Google toolbar, a Yahoo toolbar, possibly a WinAmp toolbar, an Alexa toolbar and quite likely a few other plugins (Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader etc) that need loading as well.
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