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Mozilla MozCamp

I made a trip to MozCamp organized by Shane Caraveo at ActiveState.  It was a meetup designed to bring together XUL developers from the surrounding Victoria / Vancouver area.  There was a decent response with about 20+ people representing various companies with notables such as Mozilla Messaging, Sxipper, Songbird, Activestate (obviously), and Flock.

Two of the [...]

Google App Engine Invite

I was a little bummed when I was madly hitting refresh on the Google App Engine and couldn’t get through. Once I did get through the 10K limit was already hit, all within about 15 minutes of release. I was trying to be one of the 10,000 developers allowed access after I saw [...]

OpenWeb Vancouver

Geeks Unite! As the title says on their page… I will be attending OpenWebVancouver this year. This event I’m especially looking forward to as it brings together web technology, culture, design, and the open source discussion all in one neat little place. If you want to learn about where the web is [...]

DemoCampVictoria Chapter.

I had this idea to bring people together in my town to spice things up a bit – and I found DemoCampVancouver! A few weeks back I decided to go check these guys out and I was pleasantly surprised! It was very cool and I had blogged about it a while back.

Once I [...]

Adventures moving to a Macbook Pro

One of the reasons why I wanted a Mac was so that I didn’t need to VNC into a Mini to do development of Flock. My previous machine was an IBM TP60 – a decent machine which I had setup for dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu. Originally Linux was Edgy then I dist-upgraded [...]

Featured Projects

Featured Projects on Mozilla’s site now shows Flock under Featured Mozilla-Based Applications. Thank you Mozilla! If you’re a developer you’ll want to check out Open Komodo – the IDE is really good and has support for many different languages (using plugins). There was a recent extension added that allows you to interact [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]