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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming

Flock, the Mozilla-based social web browser has made the announcement that everyone has been waiting for: they will now integrate with MySpace. Building on the MySpace Developer Platform, Flock will allow users to surf the web with their MySpace friends in their sidebar. This integration will expose all of the . . .

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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 [...]

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 [...]