Category Archives: DPS909

Implementing Mouse Lock, part III

This post is part of a series I’m writing about my work to implement the Mouse Lock API in Mozilla.  I’m doing the work with students in my Mozilla Open Source course at Seneca College, and so theses posts are intentionally didactic and self reflective.  The aim of the series is to show how [...]
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Implementing Mouse Lock, part II

This post is part of a series I’m writing about my work to implement the Mouse Lock API in Mozilla.  I’m doing the work with students in my Mozilla Open Source course at Seneca College, and so theses posts are intentionally didactic and self reflective.  The aim of the series is to show how a [...]
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What is 0.1?

I got a great question this morning on irc.  A student in my Mozilla Open Source course wanted to know exactly what the 0.1 release, due this Thursday, should include.  I purposely leave the requirements vague for a number of reasons: 1) each project is so, so different that trying to come up with a [...]
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Get the popcorn

If you’re looking for a movie to take your significant other to tonight, let me suggest two new titles that have just been released: Vlad on Debugging Tools/Strategies for Mozilla Benjamin Smedberg on XPCOM (Rated R) I’d say more, but I don’t want to give away the endings…
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0.3 Release

I’m pretty excited about what’s happening this week. Since September Chris and I have been guiding 2 groups of students into the darker corners of the Mozilla development process. It’s always as much of a learning opportunity for me as it is for them, and the students this time have really stepped-up and [...]
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Dict: E-lec-tri-fy

1) Charge with electricity; pass an electric current through Yesterday Chris and I welcomed Benjamin Smedberg into our Mozilla classes for a talk on XPCOM. You couldn’t ask for a better guide into the often (always?) murky waters of XPCOM. Benjamin is a fantastic and animated speaker, who really draws you in. He’s [...]
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