I recently came across Highcharts, a great JavaScript library for creating charts. It uses canvas where it can, supports skins (easily changed with CSS). I’ve been searching/waiting for a decent JavaScript based charting API and it has finally arrived.
Seeing as I’m a wordpressaholic I’m of course going to try and get it into Wordpress. Although that might turn out to be quite more than I can chew.
Just a small heads-up about what I’ve been up to…
My old server got hacked, so I had do finish the installation of critical services on my new server. To manage virtual domains I had installed WebMin with VirtualMin on it, but somehow it refused to work for e-mail. Not feeling much for reinstalling VirtualMin I searched for an alternative to manage the e-mail services. I’m now quite happy VirtualMin bugged because now I came across Zimbra. Zimbra is currently running on my new server and it’s just brilliant. The only shame is that it only supports Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and won’t support any other Ubuntu’s until Ubuntu 10 LTS. Installing Zimbra itself is quite easy so I will not be blogging about that, what I will be blogging about is what I did to make it more secure… I added mod_gnutls to my apache to benefit from it’s support for SNI which allows Virtual Hosting of HTTPS domains. With mod_gnutls with my own Root CA, server CA and P12 nobody but me can access the web interface of my Zimbra and with mod_ssl set up as a proxy, my apache provides an easy and secure bridge between Zimbra and the Internet. If this sounds interesting, keep your eye on my blog…
I’ve been planning on creating my own theme for this blog, but as usual work and other tasks mess up my priorities. Never the less, I did get a chance to pratice my theme making skills by creating a Wordpress MU theme at work for internal blogging. This brought me back on track with CSS and JavaScript again. What I started wondering is, is there any support for Continuous Integration with JavaScript. And is there automated Code Revision/Quality Assurance for JavaScript? Turns out there are possibilities… JavaScript Code Review is quite easy with JSLint, there are java ports and there’s Rhino, so getting it into a CI system like Hudson should be quite straight forward. There’s also JSUnit which allows Unit Testing of JavaScript. I’ll be experimenting with JSLint in Rhino and Hudson, but also in PHP! Recently the Mozilla JavaScript engine became available as an extension for PHP, so I’m curious about running JSLint and JSUnit in that.
These are just 2 very exciting topics I’m playing with at the moment, so stay tuned!
