There is a new 2.2 release of Julien Lecomte’s fantastic YUI Compressor for minifying JavaScript. This version has some modified command line parameters and has further improved support for safely minifying JavaScript code.
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Robert Jordan, the pen name of author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., died earlier today (by my local time). I read many of the books of the Wheel of Time series and it saddens me to hear of the author’s passing. My condolences to his friends and family.
While I wasn’t a real fan of the aforementioned series I did enjoy reading about the mythology of the world Robert Jordan created and liked to “check in” with the progress of the plot. Apparently Jordan left instruction revealing the intended progression of the story so that when, inevitably, another author is brought in to finish the work they can complete the final volume how it was originally envisaged.
Microsoft opens up test suites and development assistance for Moonlight, AMD opens up the specifications for their ATI GPUs and now QNX have announced they will open up the code for their Neutrino operating system! Has the world gone open crazy?
The title for the next Indiana Jones film has been announced: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I am of mixed feelings about this movie. Yes we’ve got the old hands on board (notably Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford) and it’s Indiana Jones, which is totally awesome, but it is 20 years since the last film came out. We’ve seen what can happen when you try to restart a series after so long. *cough*Star Wars*cough*
Microsoft has released Silverlight 1.0, the company’s intended Flash-killer, and has announced that it will be working with Novell to provide support for the open source, Mono-based implementation, Moonlight.
According to APC Magazine, Hewlett-Packard are planning on selling desktop PCs in Australia that are loaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, with Red Hat providing the support. The models available will be AMD systems with Semprons, Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X2 CPUs. Honestly, I’m not sure why anyone would want to buy system based on those CPUs (with the superior Intel chips being available) but I guess these are aimed at small to medium businesses, which is the reason for the choice of Red Hat as the operating system.
Now I’d like for Dell to make some sort of announcement for when they’re going to be selling Ubuntu-based systems in Australia as well. I hope that more and more PC vendors will start supporting Linux options, which might put some pressure on the hardware manufacturers to release decent Linux drivers - perhaps even open source versions.