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Tab matches in Awesomebar

Status

• Finished nsPlacesAutocomplete integration – works wonderfully well
• Filed bug 530209 to change the preferences UI to allow adding tab matches
• Tryserver builds at http://people.mozilla.org/~bmcbride/tabmatches/latest/

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.

Related posts:

1. Status update
2. Status update
3. Status update

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″
[...]

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.)

]]> http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/planet/?feed=rss2&p=9102 http://blog.abi.sh/2009/thanks-for-the-feedback/ http://blog.abi.sh/2009/thanks-for-the-feedback/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:43:44 +0000 Abi Raja http://blog.abi.sh/?p=448 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!)

Read more here!

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

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

– Ragavan Srinivasan, on behalf of the Weave team

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.

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.

∞

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.

The magical blogging engine. Coming soon.

With the release of Jetpack 0.6 just days ago, we are happy to announce a contest in its honor. The contest starts today and ends on the 13th of December. For the developer who creates the most awesome Jetpack that uses less than 50 lines of code, we are offering a brand new netbook (the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE). We’ll be sending the runner-up a big package of Mozilla swag.

With so many neat Jetpacks on the Jetpack Gallery already, the competition should be fun and lively. And, naturally, you do get special bonus points for using the APIs debuted in Jetpack 0.6 APIs.

Get the details on the Jetpack blog ⟫

The Jetpack gallery, while still a beta, makes it easy to find new functionality that extends your Firefox experience with new abilities. You can browse Jetpacks by tag, author, and popularity, as well as vote on and review the ones you try. Jetpacks in the gallery have screenshots and video introductions, making it easy to get to know what you are getting before installing.

Read more on the Jetpack blog ⟫

I write down a list of all the people I have spent considerable amounts of time with over the last 19 years. It’s a long list.

This is why we are sad.

It took me literally minutes to complete this extension, and all in 7 lines of code. I can’t seem to make wordpress play along, so go to this page and click “install” to try it out.

This is how easy modifying your browser should be. This is how easy it is going to be for everyone in the not too distant future. Jetpack is here to stay!

Note: other people have written similar extensions the old fashioned way (Mobile Barcoder, and probably other), however this is an illustration on how easy it can be to do it yourself.

In early September we challenged students from universities around the world to develop concepts and solutions to the question: “Browsing History — How can we make sense of this rich source of data and how do we best present this data to the user?” [read the full brief here]

Students from four schools took the challenge and worked intensively on their ideas – some in the form of a Design Jam next to their normal course work, other as part of their university assignments.

See all submitted concepts & mockups here.

Jetpack makes it super-fast for any web developer to make Firefox extensions. 14 lines of code is all it takes to write an extensions that let’s you edit any image you find on the web.

Try it out!

Drew Willcoxon has some great examples of Jetpack, context menus, and Twitter working together. To find out more about creating menus in Jetpack, you can read the pretty pretty documentation.

Here’s a quick challenge: What can you make using Jetpack in 14 lines of code?

But this morning, I realized that I still loved doing what I had been doing all day yesterday. So, how do you figure out what you should do for the rest of your life? Here’s a suggestion -

If you love the process but hate the result, keep doing it.
If you love the result but hate the process, you are like most people.
If you love the result and the process, you are happy.