Fedora 9 , First thoughts

I was getting some problems with the latest Ubuntu release (ext3 didn’t agree with ubuntu) so i decided to try another distro. Ive always been an apt-get man so i wanted to try something different. I downoloaded the Fedora 9 DVD and popped it in the drive.

I couldn’t use the GUI installer as there was some conflict with my monitor, so i need to use the text based installer. Its no big hassle for me, ive used the text base installer on slackware and other distros. The anaconda installer is great, i selected the programs i wanted to install and install. All up the install only took around 20-25 minutes – very speedy considering i installed gnome, xfce, servers, dev tools and a number of other things. Once the installation had finished i rebooted.

Straight away i noticed that i didn’t have an X server. When you run Fedora for the first time, im pretty sure theres a little dialog that lets you make accounts etc.. unfortunately there was no text option for me and i got left with a command prompt. I was forced to login as root. I tried startx and it worked! I was in the…

jQuery UI 1.5

The jQuery team are approaching the UI 1.5 release, the library of demos is steadily building up and i personally cannot wait until its fully released . One of the “weaker” points of other Javascript User Interfaces and previous releases were the themes for the window borders etc. This has been solved in jQuery UI 1.5 with the theme roller. Its a well polished theme roller with features like the jQuery colour picker in it, you set the necessary classes and you can see a live demo of what it will look like on dialogs, sliders and tabs below, very nice.

Heres a video by the Filament group, who made the theme roller.

ThemeRoller for jQuery UI Screencast v4 from filamentgroup on Vimeo.

Feed Fixed

The RSS feed has been fixed and the theme is just about done! Its a very simple theme (as CSS/graphics have never been my strong point) but it will look good. More jQuery, PHP and Linux content coming soon!