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{ Monthly Archives } July 2008

Planning your API is important

I’m upgrading some code I wrote to talk to a new version of the Citrix NetScaler’s API. The NetScaler’s manuals (that’s right, plural) weigh in at a combined 1114 pages so documentation isn’t a problem and their implementation is a breeze using WSDL over SOAP. However, some of the core changes left me [...]

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Any Firefox fans in Morocco?

I’ll be in Morocco at the end of next week and noticed there wasn’t a single Mozilla Party in the country! There were over 36,000 download pledges though, so there must be Firefox supporters somewhere.
If you’re in Morocco and want to meet up send me a message. I’ll see if I [...]

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Adding context to AMO .po files

Adding context to the .po files on AMO has been one of our challenges since we started localizing the site. The solution we decided to use, place holder strings, is non-standard and can be difficult to use for someone that is used to how gettext normally works.
The localization tool we’ve decided to use for [...]

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ThreadBubble 0.8 Released

A new version of ThreadBubble is available. Changes include:

Thunderbird 3 Support: Tested on the latest nightly and working fine. This also means a lot of the code was cleaned up and made simpler. (Thunderbird 2 still works)
Fixed a bug when sorted ascending where new messages wouldn’t sink to the bottom of the [...]

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