Yet Another IT-related Blog

I’m still doing some setup work on my new blog and also some design work. This time I’m not really interested in designing a new template or something, like I did with my friend’s blog. Web design is somehow entertaining but time-consuming and also there are these great people who really know how to make things look good and contribute to the community by freely (as in free beer, though) publishing their work.

So I’m only making little modifications based on the iTheme template by N. Design Studio.

And why was I telling you all that? Ahm, yes, because I found a really interesting Firefox extension: Firebug, which in fact is not a new one, that let’s you examine and modify the CSS content of the webpage you are visiting. Of course modifications are only local, but it’s really easy to change some CSS properties with it and see them rendered in firefox instantaneously. That way you can test and debug your design really fast. I’d only add an option to export local changes in the form of a patch file.

Other not less useful features are Javascript debugging and network monitoring (load times). Well, I’m not paid to advertise them so I’ll let it stop here, xD. Did I mention also that it’s an Open Source project?

Hi there,

my name is Jacobo and this is my new testing Weblog. I never had one before although I designed some webpages.

This introductory post allows me to describe the aim of this Blog, it’s going to be a personal one, so the text published represents only the thoughts of the writer, no further responsibility

The topics are going to be usually IT (Information Technology) related, regarding some personal projects and interests. And oh, the language, as you can see, will be English, although it’s not my mother tongue so please be understanding with mistakes

In Spain, there are some regulations for public administrations regarding Technological Neutrality (Observatorio de Neutralidad Tecnológica) and maybe therefore this year the programs aiding informative declarations are “multiplatform”. Meaning that, supposedly compatible with Windows, MacOS X and Linux. For this great purpose they have used a JVM and an InstallShield .bin installer.

I will not get into the point that Java is not really portable, since there is no descent JVM for some platforms like my laptop’s PowerPC + Linux combination. This post goes for the difficulties using InstallShield installers in x86_64.

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