There have been a few blog posts recently about when to do builds. I'd like to add a few thoughts of mine. I'll follow mostly two trains of thought * each check-in raises a bunch of questions, to which we want answers -- quick * the road to these...
Does anybody know what a "Comp Pass" is? I got one, and I don't. Nor does anybody that's checking it. Anyway, it get's me onto the fairground and all, so... If anybody of you has strong feelings on which presentation I should attend, and possibly...
Remember Mozilla Europe? Tristan does, and poked the board. Mozilla Europe has gone a tad silent with other the other organizations rising in our ecosystem, so it's about time to think about what Mozilla Europe is and what it could be. The board...
SourceForge.net is changing their privacy policy again. You can read the policy in effect right now, and the one coming up on their website. Let's hope for the sanity of this post that the first is actually the link for the archived version, too....
Is anyone working on an object-relational-mapping for js and mozstorage? Say, something like sqlachemy does? Using JS1.7 iterators and generators, that should be totally feasible. That is, for someone that knows SQL, which is not me. Thus RFE,...
As everybody else, I'd like to give my 2 cts on the current mail/thunderbird discussion, and I'll do it cent-wise. I'll start off with mail. Mail matters. As of today, your email address is the root cert for vast majority of your online...
LinuxTag 2007 was interesting, in fact, more interesting than I anticipated. I cherry-picked a few talks from the program on Friday and Saturday. Crowding effects: How money influences open source projects and its contributors, by Matthias...
I listened to a talk by Matthias Stürmer on crowding out effects in communities by monetary incentives. Gonna be interesting to have Seth and Matthias look at the Mozilla Community giving program. The good news is, I feel that we're on the right...
I'll be spending some time at LinuxTag 2007, here in Berlin, Friday and Saturday. There seem to be a few interesting talks on the program, including some XUL dark matter. I'll be hitting the exhibition floor, too.
Firstly, architectures with one platform give you grass on rails, not rubies. Opting for still-imagery here, take a look at the Amerika Bahnhof. I pondered taking half a day off and take some pictures from Berlin's Lehrter Bahnhof (or,...