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Submission + - Debug Chrome, Safari apps from Firefox with new add-on (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by SpzToid
SpzToid writes: A few months ago Mozilla released its WebIDE project to make the browser a complete environment not just for consuming Web apps but for developing and deploying them as well. At the time, though, WebIDE had a gap: Web applications generally have to run in a range of browsers, and WebIDE only worked with Firefox and Firefox OS.

With a new add-on released today, WebIDE is going cross platform. The catchily named "Firefox Developer Tool Adaptor" lets Firefox connect to Chrome (both on the desktop and on Android) and Safari (on iOS) remotely, enabling developers to use the Firefox development environment to debug apps running on those other browsers.

Specifically, Web devs will be able to use Firefox's JavaScript debugger, DOM inspector, and CSS editor with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Each browser has its own remote debugging protocol, and the add-on translates from those "foreign" protocols back to Firefox's own built-in remote debugging protocol.

Mozilla hopes that this will make developers' lives much easier, letting them stick with one set of tools while still testing and debugging across different platforms. This recognizes an important aspect of Web development. As much as Web apps are meant to be cross-platform and browser-independent, testing in different browsers and addressing the little annoyances and problems that occur in them remains a core part of the Web development experience.

The company says that future development of the add-on will be guided by developer feedback, with possible future features including wider browser support (Internet Explorer is currently not supported, for example), or richer capabilities such as JavaScript and WebGL performance profiling.

Submission + - Apple Product announcement only available to fanbois and grrls. (apple.com) 3

Submitted by SpzToid
SpzToid writes:

Live streaming video requires Safari 5.1.10 or later on OS X v10.6.8 or later; Safari on iOS 6.0 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 6.2 or later.

From the preaching-to-the-moneyed-choir-department.

Comment Look at the ELK Stack (Score 1) 137

by SpzToid (#47842253) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution?

The ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) are great tools for capturing logs from *anything*, indexing and massaging of the data captured, and then offering up visualization, searches, and dashboards (that refresh). Built with Angular.js so the speed happens.

We could be talkin' web server logs of the NY Times servers, centralized and displaying dashboards in real-time, or maybe 24/7 sensor data streaming from the ocean floor. The ELK Stack can do it.

First googled citation, and there's plenty more where this came from: http://thepracticalsysadmin.co...

Submission + - Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Oracle and the state of Oregon are in the midst of a particularly nasty set of lawsuits over the botched rollout of Oregon's health care exchange site, with Oregon claiming that Oracle promised an "out-of-the-box solution" and Oracle saying that Oregon foolishly attempted to act as its own systems integrator. But one aspect of the dispute helps illustrate an unpleasant reality of these kinds of disputes: even as Oregon tries to extract damages from Oracle, it still needs Oracle's help to salvage the site.

Comment Re:Around or on top of millitary bases? (Score 2) 237

by SpzToid (#47813577) Attached to: Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US

This is a good article, as before I had no idea such sophisticated rogue towers were such a threat all over the US.

So when Goldsmith and his team drove by the government facility in July, he also took a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 and an iPhone to serve as a control group for his own device.

”As we drove by, the iPhone showed no difference whatsoever. The Samsung Galaxy S4, the call went from 4G to 3G and back to 4G. The CryptoPhone lit up like a Christmas tree.”

Though the standard Apple and Android phones showed nothing wrong, the baseband firewall on the Cryptophone set off alerts showing that the phone’s encryption had been turned off, and that the cell tower had no name – a telltale sign of a rogue base station. Standard towers, run by say, Verizon or T-Mobile, will have a name, whereas interceptors often do not.

Submission + - Popular Science Magazine: About the Cell towers (popsci.com)

Submitted by Trachman
Trachman writes: Popular Science magazine has published an article about a network of cell towers that are owned not by telecommunication companies but by internal US agencies that are, well... gathering, data of US citizens. Many of them are built in US military bases. The revelation states that individual users are being tracked without court order or any warrant nor the knowledge of cell service providers and are built with the sole purpose of .... data gathering (spying, monitoring).

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