It’s that time of year again. Severe weather warnings. Iced over bridges. Rolling power outages. Bad weather and worse drivers. Back in my day kids would be wishing for woolen mittens or firewood or hot potatoes they could stuff in their pockets. Nowadays all you hear about are these interactive video games and this music [...]
Tagged blah blah, MozillaThe Android platform comes with a great market available for browsing and downloading applications. Comments are easy to read, the permissions the application is requesting are clearly explained, and installing is a snap and happens in the background. Overall it’s a breeze to use. However, it’s got a large gap in it’s model that I [...]
Tagged AndroidBuilding off the success and fun that was had with the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest Mozilla has just launched a new Community Store. This store will let anyone upload shirt designs and print custom Mozilla shirts. If you’ve got good taste but designing isn’t up your alley you’re welcome to browse and customize the [...]
Tagged L10n, MozillaLooking over what I’ve written about Verbatim I realize that I’ve never talked about the overall plan on here. Even though we’re well into it at this point it doesn’t hurt to review. The original plan for Verbatim was to branch Pootle and continue to merge code between the branch and trunk as features were [...]
Tagged hindsight, L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimSome quick background for those who don’t live in Oregon: In Oregon we do our governmental voting by mail and we’re given the option of sticking a stamp on it and mailing it or dropping it off at any of the ballot drop boxes scattered around the counties. What we mail back consists of the [...]
Tagged pdx, securitySQLite only supports a simple set of data types and the only one that really matters is “INTEGER PRIMARY KEY” so you can have it auto-increment. In fact, by default, I can declare the columns as anything I want and it doesn’t even throw a warning. sqlite> CREATE TABLE t2(c1 wtf, c2 yomama); sqlite> INSERT [...]
Tagged o rly, SQLiteI got the chance to try out the latest version of Shredder last night which recently celebrated it’s Alpha 3 release fixing an impressive number of bugs. Among the heap of bugs is our very own bug 262319; “sort by thread fails to resort on new message.” Two weeks shy of celebrating it’s fourth birthday [...]
Tagged add-ons, mail, ThreadBubble, ThunderbirdI think any good manager will tell you that looking back over the choices you’ve made is an important step to improvement. In an effort to improve myself (and help anyone in a similar situation) I wrote this post with a few thoughts about branching an open source project (in this case branching Pootle to [...]
Tagged hindsight, Mozilla, open web, VerbatimLast week I connected Verbatim to the addons.mozilla.org SVN repository and with great help from #verbatim on IRC the blocker bugs have been ironed out. Special thanks to Rubén Martín (Nukeador) for making the maiden commit. The server is a bit more unstable than I’d like[1] but it’s usable. If you’d like to give it [...]
Tagged L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimVerbatim is the second project I’ve been the lead on recently where the requirements included people committing to SVN as themselves via the application. At first glance this means storing the authentication tokens of the user in plain text since we’ll need to pass them along to SVN whenever they commit. I wasn’t happy with [...]
Tagged code, Mozilla, security, SVN, Verbatim