Jello wrote:

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

Visit the FireBug website for documentation, screen shots, and discussion forums:

http://www.joehewitt.com/software/firebug/

A quick overview of FireBug's features:

* JavaScript debugger for stepping through code one line at a time
* Status bar icon shows you when there is an error in a web page
* A console that shows errors from JavaScript and CSS
* Log messages from JavaScript in your web page to the console (bye bye "alert debugging")
* An JavaScript command line (no more "javascript:" in the URL bar)
* Spy on XMLHttpRequest traffic
* Inspect HTML source, computed style, events, layout and the DOM

Works with:
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0 ALL

I was very frustrated doing AJAX/AHAH development until I found this tool.

No doubt.

Firebug lets me inspect any part of the DOM I want, and it lets me look at the XMLHttpRequest and its response.

Its true, this plugin lets you dig down into the DOM in a way that other plugins like Web Developer or Venkman won't allow. I particularly like the way you can enter the DOM either by pointing directly at the element on the page or start from the root node in the DOM browser and work your way down. From there you really do have the entire DOM to work with, not simply a tree of HTML elements and attributes.

Pretty damned cool.

I must agree. This is worth checking out if you're doing JavaScript development, especially if you've been feeling somewhat limited by the capabilities of other plugins.

RE: FireBug :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

] There's been some discussion in the blog world about
] using a Bayesian categorizer to enable a person to
] discriminate along various interest/non-interest axes. I
] took a run at this recently and, although my experiments
] haven't been wildly successful, I want to report them
] because I think the idea may have merit.

It seems like a nice idea, but it doesn't this approach probably wouldn't work well with blogs. Spam may be easily classified by bayesian filters. The content of two blog entries, however, could easily contain many common keywords, yet provide significantly different levels of interest to the reader.

Also, if you're going to go through the trouble of structuring a set of articles in a way that they could be parsed by some filter, effectively restricting the article database to a single system, one might as well be using Memestreams, at least in its methods. I believe the results would be more worthwhile.

XML.com: Working with Bayesian Categorizers [Nov. 19, 2003]

] 11 years ago, April 1st 1990, rfc 1149 was written. This
] rfc specifies a protocol for IP over avian carriers, CPIP
] (carrier pigeon internet protocol). In 11 years, noone
] has bothered to implement this important protocol stack.
] But happily, we don't need to wait any longer! BLUG in
] cooperation with Vesta Brevdueforening has given you rfc
] 1149 support for Linux.

This is such an interesting idea, it must have been fun to implement. Be sure to look at the pictures.

Bergen Linux User Group (CPIP)

] Hydan steganographically conceals a message into an
] application. It exploits redundancy in the i386
] instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent
] instructions.
] It then encodes information in machine code by
] using the appropriate instructions from each set.

While looking through the presentation list for this year's CodeCon, this program caught my interest. A nice idea and it doesn't seem to have some of the negative effects of other steganographic methods, like bloating.

Hydan: Information Hiding in Program Binaries