The next version of Firefox is making the public alpha debut, with a code name Bon Echo. How exciting.
But after seeing the page above, I’m a bit concerned. The professional developers are willing to release their flagship software without having all components in place? I’m worried that they’re starting to rush their products out, rather than taking their time and make everything as perfect as possible. Grrr…
So soon after I ramble about something, another potential solution pops up – The Zend Framework. This looks interesting. Because of its simple design, it seems to have less dependency on libraries and stuff. And it should be fitting in more environment than other frameworks.
But…. eh, it’s a bit too late. Right now, I’m using the combination of the Stupidly Simple MVC Framework and in-hous PHP based template system. I’m still struggling to set things up correctly. I dearly hope that this will be saving me time in the future, because it sure feels like tons and tons of time being wasted now. Bleh the learning curve.
I knew it’s been possible for years and years. But for some reason, I could NEVER figure out how to do this. Last night, I took another plunge at setting up the environment up so I can type Japanese on Linux again. This time, the tools used were Ubuntu running XFCE desktop (Xubuntu), anthy, and uim. I followed some instructions on various ubuntu wiki and forums, and… ta-da! It’s good to go!
I took this linux laptop to Walmart this morning before work. While they were working on the oil change, I typed up my first Japanese blog entry on that laptop. It works like a charm. ;_; My 8+ year goal has been finally reached.
[22:48] <Sylf> installing wordpress was so, so, so easy
[22:48] <Sylf> I’m thinking about moving my blog from LJ to my server
[22:48] <Serjei> yea, LJ sucks
[22:48] <Serjei> be leet
[22:48] <Serjei> and host your own
[22:48] <Serjei> hahaha
It’s not that being leet sounds good. I’ve bee thinking about moving away from livejournal for quite a while. For over a year, actually.
So yeah, I’ll be moving soon. This is actually the 2nd time this blog will be moving. It used to be on my own domain, using something I wrote really quickly. Then moved to LJ. Now I’m moving back to my own domain. I’ll post more about that soon. Probably tomorrow.