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If you haven’t heard the news, the release of Firefox 3 is happening at 1 PM Eastern Time today, just minutes from when I’m writing this post. I’m really looking forward to this release because of its speed and memory management improvements. It’s also likely to be a key component of an embedded product I’m developing at work, so I’m thrilled they are releasing it this early – earlier rumors were that it wouldn’t be out until the late summer.

Make sure you download the release within the first 24 hours to help Mozilla set a new world record!

I’m really looking forward to this month’s NHRuby meeting, which will include an overview of Google’s new App Engine environment. Brian DeLacey will be giving this presentation, and will start things off with an intro to Python for Ruby developers. Brian also tells me that he’ll have some free books to offer as door prizes, courtesy of O’Reilly’s user group program. Don’t miss out.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client and really dig the Lightning calendar extension. However, when I upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I was unable to use the calendar extension (Lightning v0.8). I could go to the calendar screens, but none of my appointments were showing up.

It turns out that the Lightning extension requires the libstdc++5 package to be installed. Not only that, but this package must be installed before the Lightning extension is installed. So to resolve this, I removed the Lightning extension, installed libstdc++5, and then reinstalled Lightning. Now everything works nicely.

Weird dependencies and procedures like this are unfortunately too common in software.