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Just when I was starting to like Firefox 3.5 beta 4, I got an auto update to 3.5b99.  "b99" seems to have fixed a few things and added some new features, but has also broken a few basic things.  I use Remember the Milk(RTM) for tracking tasks, reminders, projects, etc.  RTM is heavily based on Javascript and now RTM is very slow, almost unusably slow.  I have been reading some other threads about others having problems, but I know my problems are not as bad as their problems, so far.

I have been doing a lot of work with Blue Coat SG appliances recently.  For those who are not familiar with the Blue Coat SG appliances, the Blue Coat SG appliances are proxy appliances.  In working with the deployment of the Blue Coat SG, I have had to work with several Proxy Auto Configuration(PAC) files.  PAC files are javascript files which are evaluated by the browser to determine if the browser should use a proxy and which proxy.  The document that I typically use as a reference for PAC files can be found

I have been playing with Eric as an editor for my Django project and here are my thoughts.

This week, I found a really cool development environment for Python!  The Eric Python IDE.  Eric is a bit slow to start because it is written fully in Python and it was a bit tricky to install in Windows, see here, but once it is up and running, it has made my Python development a lot easier.

There are a few features that have really made me want to learn more about Eric:

I have installed Windows 7 RC 1 on two computers so far.  My main work computer and the family computer.  Both of the installations were upgrades from Windows 7 Beta.

On my work computer, I ran into issues with the Riverbed client.  With the Riverbed client installed, I did not have any network connectivity.  I should clarify that, I had connectivity from command line, but no connectivity from applications, like Outlook or Firefox.