Hopefully this means a new logo and a much more polished interface on all platforms.

Congratulations to Opera!

Introducing Bitbucket – Mercurial hosting. Jesper has written a nice blog post that describes the product, so jump on over and read his post before you sign up to Bitbucket and start using it.

Just to be clear on this: I’ve done a lot of the frontend-work and QA on the project, but all the brilliant backend-work is the masterpiece of Jesper. I’m just really thankful for being allowed to work on this great project.

As Jesper says in his post, any feedback is much appreciated!

I have received 5 invitations from Dreamhost, which means that if you sign up with them using one of my invitations, I get $97, and you get:
* four (4) times the normal disk and bandwidth! This means you get 2TB of storage and 20TB of monthly bandwidth.

* If you choose the five-year plan, you get $150 off!

* If you choose the ten-year plan, you get $200 off!

Read more about the other features included.

If you or anyone you know are interested, drop me an email.

Read more about features and road map on opera.com/products/dragonfly/.

I’m pretty sure that I’m quite soon going to meet a problem that I just don’t know enough about maths to be able to solve, but for now I’m having fun doing this, while bugging Jesper now and then with SMQs.

If you’re a developer who is looking for some interesting challenges, go register at projecteuler.net!

My workaround/hack, in case someone runs into the same problem:

Example JS-function:

function send_form() {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'foo.php',
data: $('form').serialize() + '&article=' + tinyMCE.getContent('article'),
success: function(){
// Show success-message, reload article-list etc.
},
error: function() {
// // Show error-message
}
});
}

The JS is a stripped down un-tested version of my function, but it shows the workaround: adding a POST-variable at the end of the request, after serializing the form content, getting the textarea’s current content with tinyMCE.getContent:

data: $('form').serialize() + '&article=' + tinyMCE.getContent('article'),

This means that “article” is sent twice, but in my tests the last one is used. I’ll look into how to overwrite the initial “article”, but at least this seems to work.

Fortunately, they seem to have come to their senses, and now in beta: http://roundcube.dreamhost.com/!

This is excellent news! I’ve given RoundCube a go, and it seems like a great alternative to Squirrelmail.

If you’re a Dreamhost-user, give it a spin, and give feedback in the forums. If you’re not a Dreamhost-user, sign up with them now* – you won’t regret it!

* As usual, that link gives me some referral credit if you follow it and sign up with Dreamhost.

• Start Windows Live.
• Go to Account settings
• Choose “Switch accounts”
• Log in with the same account you’re already logged in as.
• Voila! Not perfect, but at least sync works after this workaround.

So if you’re experiencing problems sending email, try changing the SMTP port in your mailer from 25 to 587.

* that link contains a referral id, which earns me some cash if you sign up with Dreamhost after following the link.