Saturday, November 25, 2006

The Gecko

Gecko allows third party developers to use the same technology as found in Mozilla. That means you can embed a web browser inside a third-party application, open channels and streams through the network backend, walk through the DOM and so on. You can even construct whole new applications using chrome.

Embedding Mozilla - MDC



Haven't looked in to this yet but I'm bringing up just from a looks good for development standpoint. With the ease of use in implementing a bundled server (e.g. Resin, tomcat) and the ability to then implement a standard and stable browser into your application, the ease of building an application is quite astounding. Granted you have to be developing for the right environment, I wouldn't throw a Java server (even resin) with a hacked into place version of Firefox on to just any computer for just any user. But it could be done with fast dev time (providing the Gecko implementation doesn't require a thorough understanding of binary calc algorithm matrices).



The best point in this is package-ability, you can ditch the set-up of this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this to get to access this software through this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. You can give them the whole kit and kaboodle - pro.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Handing Over Chaos

There are those who could be called “merchants of chaos.” These are people who want an environment to look very, very disturbing. These are people who gain some sort of advantage, they feel, if the environment is made to look more threatening.

Merchants of Chaos - Solutions For a Dangerous Environment, How can Scientology help me...


After flicking through the news today I feel I should re-itterate this point. The point of this blog is not the above. That will be permanently posted on this blog, and I will when encountering stories of that nature flag them as such. Let's keep the environment dis-enturbulated.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

The Wedding

The sunset ceremony was performed by a Scientology minister, according to a statement from their reps. The wedding party included Cruise's children, Isabella and Connor, the best man was Cruise's best friend, David Miscavige – the head of the Church of Scientology – and Katie's sister Nancy Blaylock served as the matron of honor.

Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Marry! | Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise : People.com





The marriage is official. Quite a guest list, including the best man Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center. While not part of the management structure of the Church of Scientology nor involved in it's day-to-day affairs, he is Religious Technology Center holds the ultimate ecclesiatical authority regarding the standard and pure application of L. Ron Hubbard's religious technologies.