Status update

Blair McBride

November 20, 2009

6:57 pm

Was stubbornly fighting the flu for part of the week, so I didn’t get as much done this week as I had hoped.

Tab matches in Awesomebar

Status

Loose ends

  • Waiting on feedback

Next steps

  • Unit tests
  • Respond to feedback

Target for next week

  • Unit tests

Binding for untrusted text in security dialogs

No change.

Miscellaneous

  • Helped with some lightweight theme bugs for 3.6

Reflections

  • Sometimes, there is no good solution. But there is a best solution.

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Debug code running on IBM Websphere using Eclipse / Intellij IDEA

Davanum Srinivas

10:39 am

NOTE: Please back up the files before you modify them.

Step #1 : Edit the server.xml (for example $WAS_HOME/profiles/AppSrv01/config/cells/AppSrv01/nodes/AppSrv01/servers/server1/server.xml). Find the processDefinitions element and look for the jvmEntries under it. A typical entry looks like this:

<processDefinitions xmi:type=”processexec:JavaProcessDef”
xmi:id=”JavaProcessDef_1183122130078″
[...]


Sunlight Foundation Hackathon

Jono DiCarlo

November 19, 2009

11:41 am

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to making information about our government’s shenanigans more easily accessible, for the sake of transparency and accountability and all that good stuff. They do great stuff like document all the connections between the pharmaceutical lobby and the members of congress working on health care reform.

They’re having a hackathon Dec 12-13. Mozilla is going to be holding one of the events. I’m going to do a project for it.

But what? I’ve got several vague ideas, but I don’t know for sure what I’m doing yet. Some kind of interactive mash-up or data visualization or cool map based on publicly available governmental info; something that makes a strong point with data and that hasn’t been done before.

One idea that I’d love to see made into reality is that of a “revision control history” for bills and laws. This one that was done for the stimulus bill was cool, but it was a one-off; I would love to see a generalized solution that would automatically update, track all bills, allow search and browsing via the web, and would have an API allowing it to be used as a building-block for further mash-ups. I know I’m not the only one who wants this. I need to do some research into what the state of the art is in this area and what obstacles exist to taking it further.

I’m also looking for other suggestions for projects, so let me know if you can think of any correlation/visualization you’d particularly like to see!

(P.S. this is not an invitation to turn the comment thread into a political flame war. Thanks.)


Thanks for the Feedback

Abi Raja

November 18, 2009

10:43 am

Today, I read my blog in Google Reader (which I don’t usually do for obvious reasons) and I noticed that there were people “liking” posts there. Liking a post on GReader seems to be a good way of giving lighter feedback than posting a comment. So, thanks for the feedback. (but, please do comment too!)


Personas: 10 Million and Growing

suneel gupta

9:52 am

The Personas movement continues to grow with over 10 million people choosing to personalize their Firefox.

amo

Read more here!

- Suneel Gupta & Myk Melez on behalf of the Personas development team


Personas 1.4 Released

suneel gupta

November 16, 2009

3:51 pm

Personas gets a set of new features that lets you discover new art, rotate through your favorites, and undo.

With feedback from the Personas community, Labs recently released Personas 1.4. Watch the video below or go to the Personas blog for a detailed look at newly added features.

Introducing Personas 1.4 from Mozilla Labs on Vimeo.

- Suneel Gupta and Myk Melez on behalf of the Personas development team


Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 1 released

Ragavan Srinivasan

11:16 am

Hey everybody – we are very happy to announce that we have just released the first Beta of the Weave Sync add-on. You can download it here and read all the details on the Weave blog!

– Ragavan Srinivasan, on behalf of the Weave team


Facebook Notifications on Growl

Abi Raja

10:00 am

Is your inbox filled with Facebook notifications? If you answered yes, then you’re not alone. You’re one of millions of people whose email inbox has been taken over by notifications, Facebook being a major culprit here.

So, last week at Super Happy Dev House, I wrote Facebook Says (I’ve been lazy to make it look pretty) which allows you to receive Facebook notifications on Growl (or Growl for Windows or anything else that notify.io supports). It’s actually really simple – you give Facebook an email that goes to my server which parses it and sends to notify.io.

Note point number 9.


Stanford: Day 57/So Much Inertia

Abi Raja

November 15, 2009

5:55 pm

Like any Stanford Sunday, I have a lot of homework to do. In particular, I’m trying to finish up this piece of work that was due about a week earlier. It’s for my intosem class and it’s about how journalism is changing due to the internet, how newspapers are morphing or dying, the usual crap. On the day I was supposed to submit this, about an hour before class, I started writing it in a desperate attempt to not turn in work late yet again but I failed. I still had one paragraph that I had not edited yet. For the last 6 days, I’ve tried to finish up this last bit but in vain.

This is how I do most of my homework these days ― either in a mad rush or excruciatingly slowly, word by word, spanning hours and days. There’s just so much intertia! There’s some really strong force that makes me not want to do some homework.

And so, the Sunday passes, the hours fuse into each other. Brunch, table tennis, water cooler talk (literally), laundry, table tennis, dinner, getting owned at Halo. And that single paragraph in that single homework is still undone. Already 6 days late.

And it’s almost my birthday.


Stanford: Day 56/Super Happy Dev House

Abi Raja

3:26 pm

At breakfast, I convince two girls to use Reverie.

∞

SHDH is an amazing event. I stay for 12 hours and I never get bored. When I get back to my room at nearly 1AM, all I want to do is code something. The irony of SHDH is that it’s almost impossible (and rather inefficient) to work on something with all these really smart people around.

I decide I should write a proposal sometime for a “Stanford Maker House”, a place for all kinds of makers at Stanford to hang out.


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