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Bird’s eye views of Carlow

19 April, 2008 (16:37) | general

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth (http://maps.live.com)  has bird’s eye views of Carlow.
Ruins of Carlow Castle as you’ve probably never seen them. You’d need a crane or a plane to get this shot.
  Courthouse
The imagery looks like it was taken late last year based on the building work in Shamrock [...]

Gulliver Sculpture

15 April, 2008 (10:23) | general, photo

Sand sculpture of Gulliver and a lilliputian in the IFSC in Dublin. Part of Once City One Book exhibition by Dublin City Council.

So what happened?

11 April, 2008 (09:32) | general

Between upgrading from wordpress 2.2.2 to 2.3.3 and the following jump to 2.5 I managed to lose all the comments on my posts.
The original 2.2.2 to 2.3.3 upgrade caused some corruption of UTF-8 characters but the comments were still there. Attempting to get to 2.5 to avoid spam attacks left me with no comments at [...]

Rebuilding blog contents

10 April, 2008 (21:39) | general

Slowly re-adding the existing posts, and hopefully the comments too. 
Be back shortly…
Just realised that it’s a year to the day since I started this.
11/4/8 - Posts & Pages are back. Onwards to the comments.
 

Signing a Firefox plug-in

9 October, 2007 (23:57) | codesigning, faq, signtool, xpi

Laurent brought this up recently in the comments on the XPISigner download page. He ran into an issue signing his Firefox Linux plug-in with XPISigner. Some files were no longer executable when the XPI was deployed.
This is a ‘feature’ of java’s cross-platform underpinnings, since not all platforms use file-system metadata to flag files as executable.
You [...]

XPISigner v1.6 released

1 October, 2007 (00:02) | firefox, java, security, signtool, xpi

Available from the download page.
Version 1.6

Fixed FileNotFound exception for xpi output file that doesn’t exist (yet). XPISigner now creates the file entry so the jar operation can use it.
Updated the unix script
Readme now correctly refers to the unix script as xpisigner.sh

Code signing simplified…

17 August, 2007 (00:01) | mISV, multisigner, signtool

Multisigner launched yesterday on it’s own domain (multisigner.com). The first drop of the product supports signing Firefox Extensions/Toolbars direct from the MS Windows ‘Personal’ certificate store.
How easy is it? Check out the link below which will take you to the launch page.

Over the next few weeks the other combinations will be made available. Multisigner [...]

XPISigner v 1.5 released

15 August, 2007 (00:04) | codesigning, extension, signtool, xpi

Now available from the download page.

Updated the readme.txt in the zip to the latest version.
Some VM’s displayed FileNotFound exceptions when the META-INF folder didn’t exist. Added explicit checks and create folders as required.
Removed some debugging statements e.g., “bc” from the output.
When running from a folder other than the baseDir the value of baseDir needed to [...]

Links & Listings

12 August, 2007 (23:17) | Uncategorized

CopySafe
Linkback from the guys at www.copysafe.net, they were one of the first to try out XPISigner and helped squash the early bugs. Much appreciated!
DMOZ
It took about three months but now XPISigner is listed on the
Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
http://www.dmoz.org/Bookmarks/D/development/Firefox/Add-ons/Development/

Links & Listings

12 August, 2007 (23:17) | Uncategorized

CopySafe
Linkback from the guys at www.copysafe.net, they were one of the first to try out XPISigner and helped squash the early bugs. Much appreciated!
DMOZ
It took about three months but now XPISigner is listed on the
Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
http://www.dmoz.org/Bookmarks/D/development/Firefox/Add-ons/Development/