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Starting the development of a third party plugin (module, theme, add-on, extension or whatever you'd like to call it) for any software application or framework is only recommended if there is not yet an existing plugin that offers the desired functionality. Therefore it is important that plugin repositories make it as easy as possible to browse their contents.

I compared the sorting capabilities of the plugin repositories of Drupal, Eclipse, Firefox, Winamp and Wordpress.

While the Open Document Format (ODF) keeps gaining more and more momentum, IBM has released Beta 3 of its Eclipse-based OpenOffice.org hybrid Lotus Symphony. I did some initial testing with Beta 1 back in September. Let's see what has changed during the last three months.

I have been a user of Remember The Milk (an online to-do list) and Gmail (Google's online email service) for quite some time now. Earlier this week RTM released a Firefox plug-in which integrates your to-do list right into Gmail.

During the last couple of days I have been struggling with the OpenID module for Drupal 5.x.

Welcome to the brand new blog of Norio.

In the future, you can expect IT-related posts (in English) about a variety of topics: open source, open standards, software development, web design, content management, emerging technologies and so on.

The actual topics and the frequency of the postings will probably vary greatly.