Putting a canvas element in Firefox chrome with XUL

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Gromobir

Just a quick note, how to integrate a canvas element in your XUL environment:

Continue reading →

Posted in extension development, Firefox | Leave a comment

Building an XPCOM component with JavaScript

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Gromobir

Building an XPCOM component in Javascript should be a pretty easy task but Mozilla introduced some changes in the Gecko SDK lately which make it a bit harder to follow the older tutorials available. I had to use some pieces of information and stick it together to get a working XPCOM component.
Mainly I used this and this tutorial. So, here is the approach which worked for me with Gecko 9:

Continue reading →

Posted in extension development, Firefox | Leave a comment

List all entities in a Java Datastore

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Gromobir

Ever wondered how to list all entities of a given type in a Java database? Well, here is how you can do that:

Query query = new Query("type_of_entityr");
List allKeys = datastore.prepare(query).asList(FetchOptions.Builder.withDefaults());

Looks simple but took me some time to figure out. ;)

Posted in Java | Leave a comment

Fedora 16 (64 bit) and Android App development

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Gromobir

What do you need to develop Android Apps with Fedora 16 (64 bit)?

glibc.i686
glibc-devel.i686
libstdc++.i686
zlib-devel.i686
ncurses-devel.i686
libX11-devel.i686
libXrender.i686
libXrandr.i686

Posted in Fedora | Leave a comment

Fedora 16 (64 bit) and Skype

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Gromobir

What do you need to get Skype running on Fedora 16 (64 bit)?

qt-x11-4.8.0-5.fc16.i686
qt-4.8.0-5.fc16.i686
libXv-1.0.6-2.fc15.i686
libXScrnSaver.i686
alsa-lib.i686
glibc.i686

Posted in Fedora | Leave a comment