May 2007 Entries
Well, maybe it's not the best title since I'm going to write not only about extensions I've been using for long long time, but new (for me) as well. Grab and Drag is one of the latter, I've been using it for only several hours and I simply loved it. It does basically what it's name says - enables you to scroll web pages how you would scroll PDF documents in Acrobat Reader. It doesn't block links, you can set hot key for temporary disabling this feature, you can make it switch between 'hand drag' and 'normal' mode after double click and...
Smart Client Software Factory v2 (aka May 2007) is out. You can read more about it in David Hayden's post. Nice new feature is 'Check dependencies'. Basically it allows you to see, whether you have installed all required products, and if you don't it will provide you with a link to download page. Unfortunately I was unable to install this factory. During installation I received following error message: I guess it's because I don't have VB part of my Visual Studio installed. Unfortunately you can't uncheck installing VB support so I'm afraid my only option is to add...
One thing I LOVE about Firefox the most is tons of great extensions. I try to stay on top of things and once a while I dive into Mozilla's extensions repository to see if there have been some good additions. I test those that look promising, and during those few years since I started using Firefox I collected some that I can not imagine surfing without (alphabetic order).
Adblock Plus - a must-have for everyone. With addition of Filters it's my first line of defense against ads. It enables you to filter links, adds, flash and ActiveX from websites using blacklists and...
I'm preparing an overview of xUML, MDA and UML, how they fit together and most of all about advantages and disadvantages of using this methodology. I googled a little bit and although in theory those look pretty promising, I really couldn't find much success stories, nor tools supporting xUML (I found only 2: iUML and Cassandra). Generating complete code generated from model seems tempting, so why noone is using it? Is it lack of tools? Or maybe it's all too vague, too imprecise, and people are afraid, that, after all they will have to dive into this generated model and...