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Development Javascript Open Source Programming XRap

Run External Apps using XPCOM Interfaces

I thought it was impossible to run a program outside my XUL app, mainly because of some kind of JavaScript restriction. There are client-side restrictions…

Joshua DoodnauthDecember 4, 2008

Javascript Open Source Programming

GUID generator in JavaScript

Found two little functions in JavaScript to create a GUID function S4(){ return (((1+Math.random())*0x10000)|0).toString(16).substring(1); } function guid() { return (S4()+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+S4()+S4()); } Thanks to sj at…

Joshua DoodnauthDecember 2, 2008

Open Source Programming XRap

XUL File I/O: Write Files

Writing files in XUL isn't that much harder than reading a file, in fact its very similar. What a relief. In my example I am…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 26, 2008

Open Source Software

Triple Web Threat

While it may not be very interesting to the average Internet user, Lunascape may intrigue many web developers. Basically its a Web Browser capable of changing…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008

Development Open Source Programming XRap

How-to: Read Files in XUL

After some weeks of procrastination and going nuts over other projects, I’m getting back to XUL and my XRap program. I’ve been asked to change…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008

Open Source

One Billion Add-ons Served…

In just under 4 year Mozilla has managed to hit the one billion mark for downloads from addons.mozilla.org. It just shows how influential as well as…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 21, 2008

Programming Ubuntu

Installing PHPUnit on Ubuntu 8.04

You need to get the latest release of PHP $sudo apt-get install php5 To get PHPUnit you need to get the PEAR installer, which is…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 5, 2008

Programming Windows

Installing WAMP and PHPUnit on Windows

Download and Install WAMP Once you have installed and setup WAMP, open up the command prompt and go to your php directory in WAMP C:\>cd…

Joshua DoodnauthNovember 5, 2008

Development Open Source XRap

Update: XRap 0.1 for Windows Release

I've been working hard at cleaning up my code, getting the directories to work in XML, and cleaning up my code generator so that WiX…

Joshua DoodnauthOctober 24, 2008

Development Open Source XRap

XML Listing of File System

One of the challenges of automatically preparing a wxs (which is in xml) file for WiX to process into an msi file for installation, was…

Joshua DoodnauthOctober 23, 2008