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North West Mozilla Development Camp

 

This past weekend was the NorthWestMozDev meetup.  What is that you say?  Well, the group provides a simple mechanism for developers in the North West
(US/Canada) using Mozilla related technologies to communicate with each
other (Yes I quote that straight from the Google group).

It was the second installment of such meetings, the first was in downtown [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]