Proving once again why he's a unique voice in the open source community, David Eaves layers an interesting geopolitical analysis on the Firefox 3 download campaign. By the way, you know it's tomorrow, right?…

We've just opened the general Call for Proposals for Seneca's seventh annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS).  FSOSS is the most fun you'll have over two days of talks aimed at foss developers, educators, and users.  It's a great way to get to reach the foss community, and…

Tonight, after hearing a terrific crash in the basement, I went downstairs to discover a small blood stain on the window, and a bird perched on the windowsill.  Upon closer inspection I could see that this mourning dove had crashed into the window during flight--not an uncommon phenomenon near our…

I've been continuing my work on dehydra over the past week, and today filed bug 435814.  I'm to the point now where I can deal with most of the crazy things the Mozilla tree throws at me, but certain edge cases are blocking further progress (especially static members).  I realize…

There's a great article in the New York Times today about Firefox 3 and Mozilla's strength in the browser space.  It's great to see this level of mainstream recognition for software so good it's equally mainstream now too.  Sure, this has been your browser for years, but it's your mom's…

I came across Tikatok today via GeekDad, and it's a cool idea that I hope to try with my own children. As Ken points out, there's nothing really new here, except that this is targeted at a different audience: Obviously this is not unlike other print-on-demand services around the internet,…

I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague and friend Chris Tyler is taking what we've learned about open source education at Seneca, and doing the same thing in the Fedora project. For the past year Chris has been team-teaching our four Mozilla development courses, distilling the model and trying to…

Hey Wil, I'm a GeekDad too.…

I'm too tired to write this properly, but it's satisfying enough to do before I quit. If you've been following my progress, you'll know that I've been trying to solve Dave's mxr-dehydra challenge, looking for all possible methods that SetParent could be in privatePrevAccessible->SetParent(this) (which is…

I spend my days in screen, emacs, irssi, and various Mozilla apps.  I'm pretty happy, but one that that drives me crazy is that C-a (i.e., CTRL+a) is "go to the start of the line" in emacs, and also how you invoke screen commands.  So running…