Just found a great post listing 25 ways to simplify your life with kids over on GeekDad.  I found myself nodding through much of it, and 5 years into daddyhood, I've learned a lot of these same lessons.  I suspect that much of this you have to learn the hard…

Today we had Ben Hearsum come to speak to students working on Mozilla development projects, specifically those that touch build and buildbot. It's always great to have Mozilla drop-by, but today was especially meaningful because not that long ago, Ben was on the other side of this exchange, hacking buildbot…

I've been making more progress on the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit, focusing first on getting a local MXR done.  Here's the required screenshot: Life with extjs has been pretty good so far.  Although I hit a snag where I couldn't override the icons for tree nodes (see the crappy default…

Yesterday was a day to stay home and do nothing, while sick kids spent the day in their PJs slowing recovering from coughs, fevers, and other unmentionable symptoms.  Laura's been reading the girls "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".  We decided to read some more...a lot more.  We…

Hi TED, It's me.  You don't recognize me?  Oh, wait, that's right.  My browser is working right now.  You've only seen me with a crashed browser attached to your site.  I love what you're trying to do, I really do.  Those talks are amazing, and I can't get enough.  No…

I spent the day learning and hacking with extjs.  Man, this is a tasty bit of bacon!  My goal is to create an organizing web app to hang inside Prism, such that I can display all the Mozilla goodies we're putting into the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit.  So far so…

Shaver came for a visit today to do a round-table discussion with the students working on Mozilla projects this term.  It was a good chance for him to hear about what it's like to begin with Mozilla, and for the students to give him updates on the state of their…

Brendan and the phuggers continue to amaze me with how much they are doing so quickly.  They've just announced a free Drupal workshop at the Rich Media Institute (RMI) to be given by one of FSOSS's favourite presenters, James Walker.  Space is limited to 70, so be sure to sign-up…

Today Gavin has a wonderful blog post up about how he uses (abuses?) bugzilla in order to keep on-top of his work.  A few months ago I wrote about the need for more stories like this to be told.  This is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.…

Last April when I was at the Boston DevDay, my goal was to get lots of ideas from Mozilla devs on how to build on top of Vlad's canvas3d stuff--I still love this demo. Since then a lot has happened, not the least of which being the fact that Seneca…