Archive for 'XulRunner'
Project Management Tutorial Part 2, First Iteration
Here’s our goals for the first iteration.
Task Database Object
Add Task via Xul Client
It’s small, but it gets us started on all the overhead of both rails and xul.
Project Management Tutorial Part 1, Planning and Design
Luckily/Sadly, there is no pressure for me to complete this on any timeframe, and it’s secondary to the rest of my work, which is far more important. However, a nice diversion is always in order, and helps get my mojo back into my regular programming work. Read on for the rest of this…
Quick Update
Not that I post that often, really, but here’s a quick update. I’ve been consumer by work and a recent death in the family.
First of all, for all you locals, there’s a project to create a Haunted House in Deep Ellum. I posted the MySpace bulletin on my Dallas Halloween blog page.
Secondly, Firefox 2 is […]
Finally found the page I was looking for
I must’ve spent a week looking for this simple page on doing Socket connections in XUL. Thank goodness. I want to set up a jabber client in pure JS and XUL(I want to). I also want to set up a chat room for my new dating site, YNKOdate. Slowly but surely it’s all coming together.
No Part 3 today
No Part 3 on the XulRunner tutorial today. Sorry everybody, just got busy with work. I’ll push for it tomorrow.
Culled from the Web
I saw this, VoiceTronix.
The OpenPCI series is our new entry level CT hardware platform offering four (4) and eight (8) Loop-Start (FXO) or Station (FXS) ports on a PCI 2.2 bus interface running on Linux.
With Asterisk compatability, and coming soon, FreeBSD support. Nice.
IBM’s new Ajax Toolkit for Eclipse requires XulRunner.
Interested in Firefox […]
Mozilla SIP Client
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, check out Zap! the Mozilla SIP Client. Not done, but it looks like it’s come a good ways.
XulRunner and Rails Tutorial, Part 2: Connecting the Two
Read Parts: One
Two
Today we’re going to Connect Rails to our new XulRunner app. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well….
Let’s start on the Xul side of it. All this XmlHttpRequest stuff is crap. And Ajax is Ajax+J.
Under the xul/content directory, let’s create a new one called “js” to store all of our javascript in, and let’s create another […]
Xul(Runner) and Rails Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction and Setup
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Two
Please Note: I’m not the first to do this. Check out that app, very nifty.
But now I’m going to give it a go.
For this demo app, we’re going to create a simple online forum based in XUL with a Rails backend.
First up, gotta boot up RadRails and start a new project, and we’ll […]