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OpenID

For those of you who don’t know what openID is all about, check out Chris Messina’s post on the subject. The ultra short-form of it is openID is a way of creating a global identity online. No more 10 million different username/passwords (we all know how annoying that is). I [...]

Writing auto-updaters

I was presented with a problem to solve last week – how do you get a Mozilla product to automatically suggest and download another product? The method I came up with was use the extension updater to our advantage: We can push an update via the browser’s autoupdate mechanism to install and extension [...]

The hidden window trick

I was working with an extension today and I came across the need to overlay browser.xul, but only have my overlay fired once-per-session.  So, say you write an extension that puts a toolbar in as well as display some XUL on startup, but you don’t want the XUL to display every time browser.xul is loaded [...]

Wine Storage

Came across this page regarding wine-storage monitoring. This neat little gadget will tell you the temperature of your cellar. You just know I’ll be making one of these!

Netscape suggests Flock!

In awesome news, Netscape has blogged about us (Flock) as another alternative to the Netscape Browser.

My Photos

Alright.. so I got some issues with my Gallery – Hang tight! I’ll fix it soon.

UPDATE: I uploaded some photos of my Deck Project – just register like you did before and then you’ll be able to view the pics.

Mozilla Python XPCOM/DOM in Linux

Recently I’ve been dabbling in python and I wanted to figure out a way to get it working in xulrunner. My guide assumes you already know the basics of making a xulrunner application – see this guide first otherwise. The two main things to really worry about are:

build the source for xulrunner
build python [...]

First post

Well – this is my first post… for like the 5th time.  I’ll be updating my website infrequently depending on my mood.  So here it is.. I’ll be posting my projects, photos, fun… whatever.  You’ve seen a blog before right?