I'm terrible at enjoying a success, because as soon as I get something to work, I lift my gaze to the next horizon. Previously I got close to finding all possible concrete types for: privatePrevAccessible->SetParent(this); However, I had cheated by only building the parts of the…

Mark has a post up today that has me thinking. In it, he takes issue with a post from ReadWriteWeb on the new Google Maps Flash API. He's frustrated, and I understand why: I share his passion for open source and Mozilla, and know that the things happening here are…

After yesterday's experiments with the dehydra js api, I decided to test my theory and have the dehydra scripts accumulate their findings in a sqlite database. I've never worked with sqlite in the past, but I'm a believer now. I decided to focus on type, inheritance, and member data, and…

While James takes some time to get up to speed on Mozilla, MDC, MXR, and friends, I decided to take a detour from my front-end work on the MDRK to investigate the potential for using dehydra to replace parts of MXR's cross-reference code. Disclaimer: all that follows is the blathering…

William Denton wrote to tell me about the One Big Library Unconference he's organizing on Friday June 27 from 9-5 at the Centre for Social Innovation.  Both sides of my background, the literary and computer, are dominated by ideas about, and experiences with, libraries.  I think it's great that York…

I'm thrilled to welcome CDOT's first student researcher and developer, James Boston (JamesB on irc).  James has signed-up for a summer's worth of fun working on the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit.   James brings a background in journalism and programming, and he'll being helping us coax the mountains of Mozilla documentation…

I got a great email from Ali Abbassene about VNC#: I'm using VncSharp in an eHealthCare Application, in my countrie Algeria, to implement a videoconferencing remote datashow displayer used to diffuse medical conferences from one hospital in the capital Algeirs to an other one in Ouargla an isolated District in…

I spent the day at the plush new Mozilla Toronto office, where I was spoiled for life using Shaver's monitor (emacs was meant to be that tall). In addition to catching-up with the Motillians (I'm sorry, but "Shepherd's Pie" and "Curry Chicken Burrito" don't belong on…

So, funny story. The other day Chris grabbed me on irc to ask one of his usual innocent questions: ctyler: so how long do you think it would take to write a drop-in replacement for glimpse? humph: without looking at the code, no idea. ctyler: I was thinking less than…

I really love this retrospective essay by Richard Crowley about  his trials and triumphs working with  the Mozilla Platform in order to build the Flickr Uploadr.  Our good friend Mark Finkle makes numerous appearances during the tale, and it's a great end-to-end look at the process of identifying and leveraging…