Style Properties

Style Properties: "Style Properties

The following lists some of the custom style properties that Mozilla supports."

Penny Arcade!

Penny Arcade!: "Child's Play"

ArgoUM 0.17.5

argouml: View announcement: "Headline ArgoUML 0.17.5 released
Date Feb 14, 2005
Contributed by Linus Tolke
Body The development release 0.17.5 of ArgoUML is now released and available from the web site at the download page. Most important changes:

* Refactoring of the Model subsystem completed (including ModelFacade)."

Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets

Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets: "Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets

Ah, the lure of all things Google...

I've been poking around in Google Maps and had some success I thought others might be able to build on. I've put this in a couple of places but thought I'd throw it here as well:
Part 1 : XML Handling

Okay, I've been playing around with sending requests to Gmaps via a Python proxy and manipulating the files returned on the fly.

As a result I've created a bookmarklet that loads the required XML file into the page: (Google Maps Load XML Data Example Bookmarklet)

javascript:(function() {window.parent._load('Somewhere

Somewhere

', window.document)})();

If you save this book marklet and click on it when on any (?--certainly the home page) Gmaps page it should move you to a location in Vancouver, Canada.

By changing various values you can do some more experimenting... For example, I have successfully added another 'location' tag with an id 'B' and new coordinates. Also I changed the marker image to be a random png from the Google site--but discovered the image dimensions seem to be hard coded so it was distorted."

maxq.tigris.org

maxq.tigris.org: "MaxQ records you using a web site. It turns the links you click on and any other input into a Python script that you can play back at any time. You might use it to:

* Check that your web site still works (regression test).
* Check that your web site is producing valid HTML (using JTidy).
* Automatically extract information from, or take some action on, someones else's web site."

EMMA: a free Java code coverage tool

EMMA: a free Java code coverage tool: "Until recently, the world of Java development had been plagued by an absurd discrepancy: Java developers had excellent free IDEs, free compilers, free test frameworks but had to rely on code coverage tools that charged an arm and a leg in license fees. As a Java pro, I would like to use the same free coverage tool regardless of whether it is a massive commercial project at work or a small fun project at home. I've created EMMA to be that tool."

Mandaella 

Beust on Disposable email

Otaku, Cedric's weblog: "Disposable email addresses

Given the amount of spam I receive every day, I am extremely reluctant giving away my email address to untrusted parties, especially when I'm pretty sure these people should only ever use that email address once (to send me an activation code, for example). Therefore, I was absolutely delighted when the first disposable email address service appeared (SpamGourmet) and especially when it was followed by two more (Mailinator and DodgeIt). Here is a quick review of these three services."

Slashdot | IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper Released

Slashdot | IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper Released: "Posted by Zonk on Friday January 14, @10:51AM
from the white-papers-inc dept.
Elonka writes 'The Online Games SIG of the IGDA has released the latest in a series of White Papers on the online computer gaming industry. The 2004 Persistent Worlds White Paper (80-page, 457K pdf) had several contributors from across the industry, and gives general 'developer to developer' advice, covering everything from a quick overview of major products, to design considerations on multiplayer gameplay and dealing with online communities, to technical considerations, to some stats about the international marketplace, including the rapidly-growing Asian market. Editors included Daniel James of Three Rings Design, makers of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, and Gordon Walton, VP and Executive Producer at Sony Online and presenter of the Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Make a Massively Multiplayer Game talk at the 2003 Game Developers Conference.'

"

IRL

Wired News: Real World Doesn't Use a Joystick: "After a recent three-day binge of playing the Japanese cult hit video game Katamari Damacy, Los Angeles artist Kozy Kitchens discovered that walking away from the game was not as easy as putting down her joystick.

In the game, players push around what amounts to a giant tape ball, attempting to make the ball bigger by picking up any and all objects in its path. Kitchens found that her urge to keep picking things up was not so easy to shake.

'I was driving down Venice Boulevard,' recalled her husband, Dan Kitchens, 'and Kozy reached over and grabbed the steering wheel and for a moment was trying to yank it to the right.... (Then) she let go, but kept staring out her window, and then looked back at me kind of stunned and said, 'Sorry. I thought we could pick up that mailbox we just passed.''"