Monthly Archives: February 2007

Let me show you Mozilla like it really is

I’m only a few days away from starting to teach a week-long crash course on Mozilla development (I’ll fill-out the page as I go). This is going to be a real experiment. I’ve taught a 14-week version, where students work on projects; but this is different. Here I’m going to work quickly [...]
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Robot birder

I saw this story on the ‘beeb’ today about how ornithologists are using robots with computer vision software to watch for sightings of the elusive (if not extinct) Ivory Billed woodpecker. In our woods by a creek, I’ve seen Pileated woodpeckers, which is thrilling enough. I can’t imagine this. Good luck, robot!
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But does it scale?

Shaver is always trying to convince me that I should buy a Dell display, telling me that his is the “best hardware purchase he’s ever made.” Well, I was thinking about a 24″ until this morning when I walked out of my office…now I have other ideas. Laura, if you’re listening, I have an idea [...]
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Open source in first semester?

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague this past week.  He was bemoaning the lack of opportunity to get students involved in open source in their first semester.  His passion is the Linux kernel, but he’s currently teaching Introduction to C Programming. I told him about a technique I’ve had good success with no matter [...]
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Mozilla at Demo Camp Toronto

Beltzner emailed me last week to see if I could fill-in for him at Demo Camp–thanks for the 3 day notice, Mike! He was scheduled to talk about managing distributed development, and I modified that slightly to focus on how to get involved with the project, and showed various points of entry for new [...]
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