Quick Update Blog

I've been looking mostly at XUL stuff this weekend... and although i haven't done much work, being the lazy git i am, it all looks pretty damn easy.

All XUL (pronounced Zool btw) is, is an xml doc where a tag like

button id="unique-name" label="text in me"

creates a new button....

(N.B. i have left out the "<" and "/>" tags out cos otherwise it makes a real button...cos i'm using firefox methinks)

so with that sort of ease of use it looks like the redesign of the bookmarks in firefox is back up on the agenda...

am still struggling with Team Java stuff though....dunno what we are heading towards....but i have made a simple tree walker that basically just goes to each node and does nothing! On the plus side i did have a good idea about reforming a line from the tree using column numbers, but seems like there is an easier way if we can get a line number....cos u can just access the file directly and pull out the whole line! dont ask me about effeciency though...cos both seem pretty expensive unless i remake that tree data structure.

As for the update....I will post some screens soon once i get XUL Maker up and running....otherwise it'll mean coding all by hand!


As for topical news....Gmail has started giving out lot and lots of invites....i got 50 invites this weekend....so if anyone wants one then drop me an email at utills+gmailInvite@gmail.com.

Just a thought struck me now.... imagine i signed up to all 50 invites as my own... and then used the Gmail Storage Tool to use it to store files... now there's a free 50gb worth of storage!!