I’ve always questioned the wisdom of building a startup company based around someone else’s platform, like Facebook games or Gmail inbox add-ons. You’re totally at the mercy of the other company. (Many people have found out how silly it was to go up against Microsoft or Apple in just the same way.)
And yet, here I [...]
Tag Archives: release
Hummingbird Updated to Version 0.60
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 – 7:49 pm
An Installation Shell-Script for Palm Prē Developers
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 – 3:28 pm
Last week, I wrote that I'd been working on a script to easily install homebrew apps on the Palm Prē. It now looks like there are much better ways to handle such things — I've become quite a fan of fileCoaster, myself, and of course webOSQuickInstall is a wonderful piece of work, as well. But just [...]
Announcement: Hummingbird Upgraded to Version 0.51
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 – 3:11 pm
I’ve just upgraded Hummingbird from version 0.5 to its new version: 0.51. Since I recently starting using the #PalmPrē hashtag in my tweets, I suddenly noticed that Hummingbird didn’t make hashtags clickable.
Well, now it does.
The change is pretty minimal, but it also incurred some overhead in my web site: the Hummingbird web page needed to [...]
Launching SSHblock
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 – 11:59 am
My latest software project is now available… where “latest” means “the latest thing I’ve launched, even if I actually wrote it over a year ago.”
The story is simple: I was tired of seeing “failed password” messages from sshd cluttering up my logs. I was also annoyed at the constant flow of dictionary attacks, even if [...]
Announcing Hummingbird
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 – 1:01 pm
If you read Coyote Tracks*, you’ve probably noticed that I recently set up a thing over there in the right-hand side that says “My Latest Tweets”. At first, that was just a little PHP widget that I’d hacked together myself. But then I realized it could actually be useful to other people, because it does [...]
Site Updated and Software Publication
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 – 3:57 pm
Just updated my software page to bring it a little more up-to-date with what I’ve been doing in the past few years. It’s funny to see how my coding style has evolved and grown continually over that time. There were some things I used to be showing off that were almost totally procedural; even some [...]
Workaround for PEAR/PECL Failure with Message “ERROR: `phpize’ failed”
Monday, May 11th, 2009 – 10:24 am
When you try to upgrade or install various PEAR (or PECL) packages, you may get the rather unhelpful error message “ERROR: `phpize’ failed”. For example, here’s the result I get when I try to install the pecl_http package:
root@finrod:~# pecl install pecl_http
pecl/pecl_http can optionally use PHP extension "iconv"
downloading pecl_http-1.6.3.tar ...
Starting to download pecl_http-1.6.3.tar (Unknown size)
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