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Stanford: Day 56/Super Happy Dev House

Abi Raja

November 15, 2009

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.

Reverie

Abi Raja

2:06 am

The magical blogging engine. Coming soon.

Enter the Jetpack 50-line Code Challenge!

daniel

November 13, 2009

2:58 pm

The Jetpack 0.6 Contest Starts Now

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 ⟫

Launching the Jetpack Gallery

Aza Raskin

November 11, 2009

12:03 pm

Hot on the tail of a major update to Jetpack, Mozilla Labs is proud to announce the launch of the Jetpack Gallery. The gallery makes it easy for developers to host and promote their Firefox Jetpack add-ons, and makes it even easier for users to find those great new features. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project that enables anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create powerful Firefox add-ons.

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.

How To Live #2

Abi Raja

10:04 am

I write down a list of all the people that have mattered to me over the last 19 years. It’s a short list.

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.

QR Code Generator in Firefox

Christian Sonne

November 10, 2009

7:15 pm

Some hours ago, a reddit user suggested an extension for Firefox that I thought would be a good example of why Jetpack is going to change the way users think about modifying their browser experience.

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.

University Design Challenge Fall ‘09 – Concepts

Pascal Finette

5:23 pm

Design Challenge Logo

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.

Firefox Image Editor: 14 Lines of Code

Aza Raskin

2:48 pm

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?

How To Live #1

Abi Raja

November 7, 2009

1:28 pm

There are times like last night when I get really unhappy about what I’m building. I put in so much time, energy and emotion into something and then, when I look at the product and see how badly it has turned out, I feel like shit.

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.

Better RSS feed for IBM WebSphere Application Server forum

Davanum Srinivas

November 6, 2009

3:21 pm

The websphere forum (see below) feeds are truncated
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=266&start=0
You need to add “&Full=true” to get all the content as shown below:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/rss/rssmessages.jspa?forumID=266&Full=true

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