This is exactly how I feel: It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. And voicemail is usually outside of our typical workflow, making it hard to forward or reply to easily. I hate voicemail.  I especially hate emailing people and having them phone me back…

I spend a great deal of my time explaining to students how to work on the web.  Open source development is as much about working via the web as it is about source code.  Students often have a hard time believing me when I tell them that blogging has value,…

My collegue and friend Chris Tyler has been appointed to the Fedora Board.  A huge 'congratulations' to Chris who has worked so hard on and for Fedora these past years.  They're lucky to have you, Chris.…

Tomorrow I'll be involved in one of the most rewarding aspects of my job--convocation.  Without being overly melodramatic, I love and hate this moment, as it marks the passing of a set of students I have come to know and respect.  After spending hundreds of hours teaching, mentoring, and sharing…

About six months ago I got a Mac.  When I did, I decided to celebrate and fix a Mac related Mozilla bug.  But which one?  Well, within a few days of having the shiny I met Growl (whose upgrade story sucks, btw).  As soon as I'd installed it I noticed…

Today, on the screened porch, waiting for a storm to come, and then to pass, with blankets over bathing suits, the girls and I read the first half of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.  I'm just about to shift from working-dave to holidave, and this book put me…

For a while now I've been working on a project to create a Mozilla Developer Resource Kit (MDRK).  After spending three years helping students get started in the Mozilla world I've had a few ideas how to make life for new developers coming to Mozilla a bit easier.  The MDRK…

I'm writing this with my brand new browser, and I wanted to tell you about it.  In case you haven't heard (and it was hard to miss, given that I saw it everywhere on the web, and even heard it on the CBC National Radio news last night), Firefox 3…

Brendan emailed to tell me about an event he's running to talk about Red5: Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports: Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3) Recording Client Streams (FLV only) Shared Objects Live Stream Publishing Remoting (AMF) The event is free to all,…

1. Write to your MP, the Industry Minister, the Canadian Heritage Minister, and the Prime Minister.  If you send an email, be sure to print it out and drop a copy in the mail (no stamp is needed - c/o House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A0A6).  If you are…