I just got back from the lab where a very happy Tom (mystic) and Cesar (cesar) were showing me a distributed Mozilla Win32 build using their patched distcc. They have had distributed builds on Win32 working for a while, but a bug with the Mozilla build kept them from releasing.…
In case you're not following the travels of the maharajah, you have to swing on by cozby's blog. He's really hit his stride with this one! There's even some snaps. P.S. Blogspot, Picassa Web Albums -- you both suck. Why is it so hard to link to you?…
It's that time of year again: the snow is starting to melt, I just saw my first Robin of the season, and that little Internet company that could is now taking applications for Summer of Code. This year's list of mentoring organizations is unbelievable; don't say you didn't have a…
Last week I was busy teaching a one week intensive course on Mozilla development, aimed specifically at developers new to the project. In total I had 40 students go through it with me, and the feedback was amazing, for example: "I was able to learn quite a lot in…
I'm starting to sort through email from this past week, and noticed one from the Amit (cozby) in India. He's in the motherland for three months doing the wanderlust thing. You can follow along with him at his blog. Amit, keep that blog hot, curry hot.…
I'm only a few days away from starting to teach a week-long crash course on Mozilla development (I'll fill-out the page as I go). This is going to be a real experiment. I've taught a 14-week version, where students work on projects; but this is different. Here I'm going to…
I saw this story on the 'beeb' today about how ornithologists are using robots with computer vision software to watch for sightings of the elusive (if not extinct) Ivory Billed woodpecker. In our woods by a creek, I've seen Pileated woodpeckers, which is thrilling enough. I can't imagine this. Good…
Shaver is always trying to convince me that I should buy a Dell display, telling me that his is the "best hardware purchase he's ever made." Well, I was thinking about a 24" until this morning when I walked out of my office...now I have other…
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague this past week. He was bemoaning the lack of opportunity to get students involved in open source in their first semester. His passion is the Linux kernel, but he's currently teaching Introduction to C Programming. I told him about a technique I've…
Beltzner emailed me last week to see if I could fill-in for him at Demo Camp--thanks for the 3 day notice, Mike! He was scheduled to talk about managing distributed development, and I modified that slightly to focus on how to get involved with the project, and showed various points…