http://fagonfoss.com/blog Queen Of All Development Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:19:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you can see this - it works! http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/07/testing-out-the-wordpress-iphone/ At Atlassian about 90% of my work is with Maven - so I'm editing a lot of XML every day. One invaluable tool I'd like to share is xmlindent. Reformatting poorly formatted XML is as easy as $ xmlindent -w crappy_formatted.xml http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/06/xmlindent-format-xml-files/ Erik, the pictures shown of the BCode scanners remind me of something out Startrek - Love itk http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/06/bcode-hardware/ Dear Google, Excited as I was about Android I was even more excited to hear of the Dalvik virtual machine. Being a self styled VM geek, I went to go check your stuff out. But alas, no source dump on Google Code yet? Can it be source time now please? Your devoted fan, James http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/05/small-shout-to-google-on-the-whereabouts-of-dalvik/ I don't usually blog about company stuff but I was a little excited today. We shipped Confluence 2.8 today, our wiki product. My non-company-sponsored word on it is this - Its shit hot. We have redesigned pretty much the whole UI - it feels much more comfortable and intuitive to use. Check ... http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/04/confluence-28-is-out/ Thank you to Benno, Suzie and Anya for Burrito! We love him! http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2008/04/meet-burrito-my-new-kitten/ For the last few weeks I have been working on a project called "Rhodes". Rhodes is aimed to be a desktop automation scripting environment for the Linux Desktop. With Rhodes, users will be able to write small scripts to automate simple (and perhaps complex) tasks using a few lines of ... http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2007/06/rhodes-01-preview-released/ Dear Lazyweb, I'm in the need of a curses (or curses like) diff viewer for some deployment scripts I am writing. I would like to have two panes showing different files and how they are different. Anyone know of something that could fit my needs? Thanks, Lazy Coder http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2007/06/dear-lazyweb-curses-based-diff-viewer/ A most amusing bugzilla issue for the Mozilla project. I quote: "If profanities in source code is worth mentioning in a "negative" for a review... I take that as a badge of honor. If they need to dig that deep, lets give it to them." http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2007/06/resolved-wontfix-profanity-%e2%80%93-remove-profanities-from-the-mozilla-tree/ The recently announced Microsoft Surface looks conceptually the same as research as done by Edward Tse. By clicking visiting Microsoft Surface website and then clicking on the "Origins" link at the bottem of the page, you can learn that beyond a doubt (ahem), that Microsoft were the sole inventor of the ... http://fagonfoss.com/blog/2007/05/microsoft-surface-and-edward-tse/