JohnBs personal blog

Mozilla have now released the second Release Candidate for Firefox, getting ready for it’s 1.0 launch next week

Looking at their site Thunderbird has now reached version 0.9

Just in case you haven’t seen we’ve now released the second Fusebox 4.1 beta. It now runs on BlueDragon, i’ve been testing on 6.1 and 6.2 - remember there are some coding differences between CFMX and BD so you’ll need to adhere to them for a fully portable application. Something else you’ll notice is that the core files now only have the major number in the actual filename - this is a convention we needed to adopt now that we’re using a CVS repository. There’s also a DTD for the circuits.xml and fusebox.xml file. Looking at the filestamps in the repository we haven’t touched the actual core files since 15 Oct - incidently this site is always using the most recent copies from the repository!

As far as the stuff we snuck in for Fusebox 4.2, ie the custom lexicon - a number of UDFs have been added as well as new structure fb_.verbinfo which contains info you’ll need to use inside your lexicon verbs, I’ll be updating my lexicon tags i’ve previously posted.

The flight attendant that I’d previously blogged about here has now been fired by Delta Airlines. Judging by comments on her her blog here (which now now has the pictures that caused the issue!) she’s not going to lye down over the matter and claims that Delta will have a court case on their hands!

What fun, a real life soap opera!

You can now register for MX Europe 2005 over at http://www.mxeurope.org - i’ve let the guys now that a number of references are made to Mx Europe 2004 during registration and the ‘Continue’ button doesn’t work, hopefully they’ll iron those issues out later today.

Following a recent email from Hal I’ve now taken over responsiblity for the fusebox.org website revamp that’s been in the works for ages but has never come to life. I’ve been posting quite extensively in the fusebox.org category in the forums seeking input. I’ve started building a wireframe which you can view at http://www.beynon.org.uk/fusebuilder, login as anonymous to view. If you want any input into the project then please get in touch with me.

Given that Macromedia anounced the ‘Non Commercial/Non institutional license for Flex 1.5 I’ve been wondering if CFMX7 will follow a similar licensing plan?

Allowing developers to use CFMX7 ‘free’ on their own personal websites can only be a good thing, so i hope it’s something Macromedia are considering. I only hope it’s not the higher cost of Flex that has led to such a decision.