I'm working on a project to try and expose audio spectrum data from Firefox's audio element.  Today I document some of my background research and initial first steps at locating this data. The <audio> element is part of the html5 spec, and you can already use it in…

Boy, fixing overtired sure is tough. --@mhoye I want to say something about sleep.  I've been thinking a lot about it lately in the context of my students, who are in the middle of final assignments and exams.  Watching them work on less and less sleep as the term…

Tonight, after a long drive, and a still longer day, I arrived home to find my wife getting our daughters ready for bed.  She was helping the eldest, and I asked where the younger one was.  "She's getting her pajamas on in her room."  I went to her…

This post marks the beginning of what I expect to be a somewhat regular series of posts in which I will document my thinking, learning, and progress related to some Firefox development.  I say "Experiments" above, because I am going to try a number of things.  First, I'm…

Yesterday I spent the day attending day 1 of FUDCon Toronto 2009.  It was my first time attending a FUDCon, and I found it an interesting experience all around.  I was especially pleased to be able to attend one being held at Seneca, due to the hard work of my…

Yesterday on our Mozilla Education call, I was giving a quick update about what's happening with the work on the Processing for the Web project, which I introduced here.  A lot has happened since then, but we've waited to talk about it so as to give the students time to…

Chris Tyler's SBR600 student, Boris Chao, is the kind of fearless student I love.  A week ago we approached him to see if he'd be interested to work on doing a backport of the new plugin code in GCC 4.5 to GCC 4.4.  Without really knowing what he…

The paradox of the web is that one must write the thing for which you search.  I am repeatedly confronted with this in my work, and it is part of why I blog technical information: I know I will want to search for it later.  And, in knowing that I…

For lunch today I had pizza from on campus, and the crust was made with almost no salt.  It's a common mistake I've made baking bread over the years.  I remember the first time I learned what salt does in bread.  I made this incredible Italian artisanal loaf that took…

I had a moment of recognition this morning.  I was looking through Twitter and noticed Thomas Saunders saying something that caught my attention: twitter as the morning newspaper ( a good read with coffee ): http://bit.ly/1enCZg I smiled because without even clicking the link, I knew where it went.…