Chris has just posted about the final set of presentations for FSOSS 2009, happening next Friday October 30. This year, after more years of running or working on FSOSS than I can remember, I'm going to finally get to attend and participate as a speaker. Taras and I will be…
I bought a new monitor. Last Christmas my wonderful wife gave me a present: she hand-made an Apple monitor and wrapped it with a note that said, "I don't know which one you want, but let's get you something nice." That cardboard cutout was as close as I'm…
Sure, I'd be happy to do just that. Yesterday I wrote about the new Mozilla course getting underway this week in France, and today Didier (Desiderius on irc in #education and #comete) spoke to me on irc looking for info about the projects his students could do. When I wrote…
Today Mark Surman and I had the pleasure of taking part in the start of the Course on Mozilla education and Technologies @ Evry (CoMeTe for short) in France. We each gave a talk via video link to the assembled professors, students, and industry partners. It was very exciting to see…
From our kitchen window I watched the first Common Merganser arrive to our lake since last spring. It was the weekend, and I was afforded the time and space to sit and watch. I did so mostly while tending to various pots and pans in the kitchen. The watching of…
<humph> I need to find someone who will pay me to read and write and stay home <humph> that's tricky <mhoye> Tough, yeah. In these tough economic times, you are someone desperately seeking the right candidate for a job that is almost impossible to…
Next week our students' first project release is due (0.1). In the past few days I've had quite a few conversations with students working on their Processing.js work, and a lot of it is coming along nicely (Andor, for example, has been blogging and coding up a storm)…
Today in class we were taking the skills and knowledge of the past few weeks and applying them. The students have learned how to build Mozilla, how to work with the code, how to make changes and get those changes compiled back into the application, how to work with revision…
Every time I use JavaScript's regular expressions I inevitably have to relearn something. Today I am putting the finishing touches on a new web-based static analysis tool I'll blog about later, and I needed to do something simple: given a dehydra JS object that has been pushed through SpiderMonkey's uneval(…
What I love most about the web is its potential to connect me to my friends as they reflect and work through ideas that are also important to me. Today, among so many other examples, the web gave me a picture of what it's like to be a homeschooling dad.…