Kevin and I released the new fantastic version of the UI Layout plugin for jQuery, changelog:

* RENAMED raisePaneZindexOnHover ==> showOverflowOnHover
* REMOVED "overflow: auto" from base-styles. Overflow must now be set by
CSS - unless applyDefaultStyles==true. No longer need "!important" to
set pane overflow in your stylesheet.
* CHANGED minSize default from 50 to 0 (still auto-limited to 'css size')
* FIXED bug in allowOverflow - now works with 'custom paneClass'
* EXPOSED two CSS utility methods
o myLayout.cssWidth( elem )
o myLayout.cssHeight( elem )
* NEW auto-resize for ALL layouts on windows.resize
* UPDATED auto-resizing of panes after a container-resize
* NEW flow-code to prevent simultaneous pane animations
* NEW options to add text inside toggler-buttons
* NEW options for hotkeys - standard (cursors) and user-defined


Hungry for new capabilities demos? check the powerful nesting and the droppable portlets demo

So now go directly to jQuery UI Layout official website for documentation, download and DEMOS!

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You may already know that Kevin Dalman and I were working on a new jQuery UI Layout project, based on my FBBorderLayout now you have the layout system based on jQuery!

Some features:

• unlimited layout capabilities: 5 regions per layout – unlimited nesting
• simple to use: powerful but simple syntax is easy to learn
• dozens of options: every aspect is customizable, globally and by region
• total CSS control: dozens of auto-generated classes create ANY UI look
• extensible: callbacks, methods, and special utilities provide total control
• custom buttons: integrates with your own buttons for a custom UI look
• use any elements: use divs, iframes or any elements you want as a ‘pane’
• collapsable: each pane can be closed, using any UI animation you want
• hidable: panes can be completely hidden, either on startup or at any time
• resizable: each pane can be resized, within automatic or specified limits
• slidable: panes can also ‘slide open’ for temporary access
• headers & footers: each region has unlimited headers or footers
• nesting capabilities: put layouts within layouts to create complex layouts
• demo mode: set applyDefaultStyles option for a fully functional layout
• compatible with UI widgets: intended to be used with other UI widgets
• and MORE

Visit jQuery UI Layout official website for demos, documentation and download!

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Ubuntu’s official desktop ISO, to fit into the 700MB standard size, is delivered with a limited set of translations, this set does not contain the Italian Language.

That’s why, since Ubuntu 5.10, we’re releasing our Ubuntu Italian Remix, to provide everyone the official Ubuntu desktop ISO plus built-in full Italian translations.

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You want to create your own Ubuntu Based distro but you don’t want to start from scratch? Ubuntu Mini Remix is the answer you’ll looking for!

It’s the smallest Ubuntu out there, only 133MB, fully functional, you can also use it as a rescue cd!

Download it and, using an ISO remastering software like Ubuntu Customization Kit, start customizing it adding your preferred software, graphic and everything you want.

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I took this weekend to work a bit on UCK, port it to Intrepid and release it, here you’ve the changelog:

• initrd detection was updated to intrepid
• ISO mime type detection was updated to intrepid
• langlist was updated to intrepid

Now you can go ahead and download UCK 2.0.4!

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After a long time I decided to remove the addthis plugin and switch to sociable because I wanted to make the social networks links more visible and also because I wanted to show only a few selected websites instead of many useless (due to the content of this blog).

There’s one thing I miss about addthis, it was unobtrusive javascript generated, I think it was nice.

Hope you like the choice, please tell me if you think I should add more social networks to the toolbar!

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My hardware

• Dell Inspiron 1525
• Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor
• 250GB 5400RPM SATA hard disk
• 4GB RAM
• Intel graphic card

Live CD boot

I put my cd in and boot the live environment (I found it a little bit slow but that’s not a problem since it’s a live…), everything is perfectly configured and working, with a few clicks I join my wireless network, check google.com home page just to be sure the connection is working and start the installer.

My partition schema

• sda1 – 2GB – SWAP
• sda2 – 10GB – root partition (with Ubuntu 8.04.1 installed)
• sda3 – all the remaining space – /home

Installation

I start the Ubuntu installer, fill in all required data, tell the system that I want to format my sda2 partition and mount it as the root (“/”) and to mount my sda3 partition as /home (without formatting it). A few more clicks and the system was installing, time to take a coffee.

Here comes a problem, I’m back from my coffee and I see no installer on my screen, it’s crashed! So I’m launching it again, retype my info but I can’t see my partitions anymore…

Rebooting…

Relaunching the installer, filling data and start the installation process, it’s about to finish when it crashes again, I take a look here and there in the logs and see that’s something about the migration assistant (actually I have nothing to migrate, I’m using my old home directory…).

Rebooting again…

I remember that’s possible to launch the installer disabling the migration assistant thus I open a terminal and type:
sudo ubiquity --no-migration-assistant
and do it all again, this time everything goes fine and I can boot my wonderful Intrepid from my disk.

Note: it seemed to me that this installation bug was not reported before so I did it.

First feeling

Since a first sight there are not so many differences from hardy, I know there are a lot under the hood so I start playing around.

There nothing to say, everything is working wonderfully, from Firefox to Evolution, Pidgin and everything else, I love the updated Gnome and what comes with it.

There’s a really notable thing: Intrepid a perfectly working audio system without having to hack Adobe Flash settings (remember that Flash 10 is available now and I strongly suggest you to update it), PulseAudio seems to be really mature now and that’s great!

I also love the improvements to totem, Gnome’s media player, which now supports subtitles and seems to work just better with video media (also if I still have to use VLC to have full DVD support, let’s hope for a future version to fix this).

Intrepid comes with OpenOffice 2.4.1, I would have loved to see the brand new OpenOffice 3.0 but actually it does no change my life because 2.4 does everything I need in a great way! Anyway if you want you can check why it was not included and how to install it with with ease.

I like the guest session feature (also if I think that it would be nice to start a guest session from the GDM login manager, now it’s possible only if you’re already logged in) and the new shutdown menus.

Conclusion

At the end of the day I can say that Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is really rock solid and it’s absolutely easy to use also if you’re a newbie I’m going to suggest the upgrade to all my family’s PCs/notebooks.

Yes, I ran in the that installation bug (and a few other ones I’ll tell you later) but it’s a thing that could happen only to a few people and I could avoid it just upgrading instead of reinstalling everything but I wanted a fresh start.

What I didn’t like

• obviously the installation bug but again, it could happen only to a few people
• My webcam isn’t working with cheese but anyway it’s perfectly working with Skype and I don’t ever actually need Cheese
• It seems to me that it’s a little bit slower than Hardy, I mean, the boot is lightning fast GDM is slower to start and the graphic environment (compiz included) seems not to be smooth as before. I also noticed that gedit (the Gnome text editor) takes ages to load but it’s a know issue and it could be solved just disabling the file browser plugin.

Vote

9.5/10, go download it as fast as you can! :-)

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