I've spent the day hacking Ted's awesome Extension Wizard into the MDRK, and figuring out the best way to host external scripts with my UI. After much getting-it-not-right, I got it: I'm looking for recommendations of other cool JS tools I could host that would be useful for Mozilla devs.…
I've spent the past few days pondering Luke's ideas about writing and the web. I wanted to reply thoughtfully, and given the hard time I've given another friend recently about impassioned blog posts, I figured I better walk the walk. I don't pretend to have it figured out; but I…
I have so much I need to blog about, but this can't wait another minute: js2-mode is rocking my emacs world. Steve, bless you.…
I never win at Roll Up The Rim, but this year was particularly bleak. Now I see that I'm not alone in thinking so. What makes this story all the more sad is that we're totally out of coffee at home today. Something has to be done.…
My good friend Luke has a blog, or what I'll call a blog, even though he won't like it, and even though he sends me 'letters' and not 'emails'. Luke is one of the most intelligent and relentless readers/thinkers I know, and I'm happy to be sharing a domain…
If you are on XP, and don't have the Vista SDK installed, you can get around the new dependency by adding this to your .mozconfig: ac_add_options --disable-parental-controls And we're back...(ya!)…
After much "when are you going to put this up so we can play with it"-ing, Chris, Cesar, and I finally installed the 0.1 release of the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit on a Fedora box at Seneca. You can now take it for a spin too,…
I've been under the gun with a bunch of reports and proposals all day, but I took a few minutes to fix a bug on SXR (the Sexier Cross Reference), and it's worth dropping a screenshot on ya! What I fixed today was some nasty DOM scrolling code, which was…
Just heard back from the OSCON 2008 organizers, and my proposal, a talk discussing the model of education we do with Mozilla, was not accepted. I know how this goes, given that we are forced to reject some great talks every year at FSOSS due to space in the program.…