Dan asked me the other day if I'd setup a DXR instance for Thunderbird.  About the same time I met with Chris and Mohak to discuss his work to package DXR for Fedora--he's getting pretty close.  Both of these things pushed me to do some more work on it and…

I just finished reading Benjamin Smedberg's fantastic post about the method he's using to write his Python based GNU Make replacement, pymake.  The post offers a number of useful jumping off points for me to talk about various things.  Where to begin? Well, let's start with the obvious question: why…

One of our first goals for Mozilla Education is to make it easier for students and educators to get connected to Mozilla project work, and for the Mozilla community to get project ideas into the hands of new contributors.  We want to be a conduit for communication between academics and…

Last week the Mozilla Labs' guys released a new web-based source code editor (think "editor in the cloud") called Bespin.  Nothing I could say here to describe it is as good as their video: Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo. Today I see that Boris Bokowski of…

I've made the mistake of mentioning to Luke various things I want to write about, and he, being the friend that he is, never lets me forget it.  Another Luke wrote something similar, "I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he…

Tristan has a good post up today about a video that tries to show what open source looks like.  Sometimes when my girls ask me about my day, I listen to myself tell them things like, "Today I worked with someone in Australia, and another person in India, and…

This year we are working to make it easier for people to participate in, and get involved with Mozilla as part of educational work. Mozilla is already home to many students and other academics: you can't spend much time in the community without bumping into a someone attached to a…

I've kept one of my New Year's resolutions, and I've learned to cross-country ski--four times this past week!  It helps having one of the best snow-winters in the past 10 years.  It also helps that my daughters are learning with me.  I tried to learn before with my wife's family…

There's a good interview with Mark in the Globe and Mail, Open-source politics breathe fresh air into the Big Smoke: If open culture is thriving in Toronto, it's in part because Toronto is a conspicuously connected place. It's not just its modest but vibrant Web-startup scene, or the fact that…

Today while trying to figure out a strange build error with a student (mozconfig doesn't like CR as much as CRLF), Ted decided to share a bit about the inner life of mozconfig.  I repeat it with permission for your reading pleasure. Act I You run "make -f client.…