Monthly Archives: April 2008

Same great taste

By david.humphrey | Published: April 28, 2008
So, funny story. The other day Chris grabbed me on irc to ask one of his usual innocent questions: ctyler: so how long do you think it would take to write a drop-in replacement for glimpse? humph: without looking at the code, no idea. ctyler: I was thinking less than a week I’ll jump to the end of [...]
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Hacking Mozilla Flickr Style

By david.humphrey | Published: April 25, 2008
I really love this retrospective essay by Richard Crowley about  his trials and triumphs working with  the Mozilla Platform in order to build the Flickr Uploadr.  Our good friend Mark Finkle makes numerous appearances during the tale, and it’s a great end-to-end look at the process of identifying and leveraging this wonderful technology.   We need [...]
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MDRK 0.2

By david.humphrey | Published: April 25, 2008
I’ve spent the day hacking Ted’s awesome Extension Wizard into the MDRK, and figuring out the best way to host external scripts with my UI.  After much getting-it-not-right, I got it: I’m looking for recommendations of other cool JS tools I could host that would be useful for Mozilla devs.  I’m working on Jesse’s JavaScript Shell [...]
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currencyspeedbrevityfunctionality

By david.humphrey | Published: April 23, 2008
I’ve spent the past few days pondering Luke’s ideas about writing and the web. I wanted to reply thoughtfully, and given the hard time I’ve given another friend recently about impassioned blog posts, I figured I better walk the walk. I don’t pretend to have it figured out; but I do believe that [...]
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.emaculate

By david.humphrey | Published: April 23, 2008
I have so much I need to blog about, but this can’t wait another minute: js2-mode is rocking my emacs world.  Steve, bless you.
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I believe it

By david.humphrey | Published: April 16, 2008
I never win at Roll Up The Rim, but this year was particularly bleak.  Now I see that I’m not alone in thinking so.  What makes this story all the more sad is that we’re totally out of coffee at home today.  Something has to be done.
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Luke sans blog

By david.humphrey | Published: April 13, 2008
My good friend Luke has a blog, or what I’ll call a blog, even though he won’t like it, and even though he sends me ‘letters’ and not ‘emails’.  Luke is one of the most intelligent and relentless readers/thinkers I know, and I’m happy to be sharing a domain with him (ya vocamus.net!)  If you [...]
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Building Firefox trunk on win32 without the Vista SDK

By david.humphrey | Published: April 11, 2008
If you are on XP, and don’t have the Vista SDK installed, you can get around the new dependency by adding this to your .mozconfig: ac_add_options –disable-parental-controls And we’re back…(ya!)
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MDRK 0.1

By david.humphrey | Published: April 11, 2008
After much “when are you going to put this up so we can play with it”-ing, Chris, Cesar, and I finally installed the 0.1 release of the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit on a Fedora box at Seneca. You can now take it for a spin too, check it out at http://142.204.133.123/mxr/index.html. In its current incarnation, [...]
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…and closer…

By david.humphrey | Published: April 4, 2008
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