Archive for the 'firefox' Category
Protecting Your Data with SSH – Setting up a Proxy (Part 2)
Monday, September 3rd, 2007In the first part of this article I introduced Public Key Encryption and SSH. In this part, we will look at how to use SSH to secure your traffic when using an untrusted network. As previously mentioned, this was partly inspired by events from SuperHappyDevHouse. At the last event we wanted to promote the idea [...]
A Look at the Practical Applications of Microformats
Saturday, June 16th, 2007HTML used to semantically describe what information looks like. HTML is now leaving the styling of information up to Cascading Style Sheets and is becoming more interested in describing what the data is. There are tags to let the browser know what information is a header, paragraph, list, etc. Microformats take the concept of describing [...]
Operator 0.6 Released!
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007Michael Kaply emailed me today to announce the release of Operator 0.6. Here are a list of changes (taken from his site): Performance Improvements – I’ve done a few things here. The main thing is that I was going through the document’s DOM one time for each microformat. I’ve reduced that to one time for [...]
Operator: A Firefox Plugin Bringing Functionality to Microformats
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006As previously mentioned I would do a review of the brand new Firefox plugin “Operator” by Michael Kaply. Instead, I felt this article at the Mozilla Labs Blog did a better job than I ever could at describing the functionality of Operator. There are a few highlights I would still like to cover though. First [...]

