Monthly Archives: June 2008

Chris Tyler appointed to the Fedora Board

By david.humphrey | Published: June 25, 2008
My collegue and friend Chris Tyler has been appointed to the Fedora Board.  A huge ‘congratulations’ to Chris who has worked so hard on and for Fedora these past years.  They’re lucky to have you, Chris.
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Mike Shaver, graduate

By david.humphrey | Published: June 25, 2008
Tomorrow I’ll be involved in one of the most rewarding aspects of my job–convocation.  Without being overly melodramatic, I love and hate this moment, as it marks the passing of a set of students I have come to know and respect.  After spending hundreds of hours teaching, mentoring, and sharing it’s hard to say goodbye, [...]
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Grrr…you have new mail!

By david.humphrey | Published: June 24, 2008
About six months ago I got a Mac.  When I did, I decided to celebrate and fix a Mac related Mozilla bug.  But which one?  Well, within a few days of having the shiny I met Growl (whose upgrade story sucks, btw).  As soon as I’d installed it I noticed my Minefield nightly build prompting [...]
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Reading

By david.humphrey | Published: June 23, 2008
Today, on the screened porch, waiting for a storm to come, and then to pass, with blankets over bathing suits, the girls and I read the first half of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.  I’m just about to shift from working-dave to holidave, and this book put me in the spirit of summer [...]
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DXR

By david.humphrey | Published: June 19, 2008
For a while now I’ve been working on a project to create a Mozilla Developer Resource Kit (MDRK).  After spending three years helping students get started in the Mozilla world I’ve had a few ideas how to make life for new developers coming to Mozilla a bit easier.  The MDRK is something we’ll be working [...]
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My favourite new feature in Firefox 3

By david.humphrey | Published: June 18, 2008
I’m writing this with my brand new browser, and I wanted to tell you about it.  In case you haven’t heard (and it was hard to miss, given that I saw it everywhere on the web, and even heard it on the CBC National Radio news last night), Firefox 3 was released yesterday.  You can [...]
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Open Source Flash Server?

By david.humphrey | Published: June 18, 2008
Brendan emailed to tell me about an event he’s running to talk about Red5: Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports: Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3) Recording Client Streams (FLV only) Shared Objects Live Stream Publishing Remoting (AMF) The event is free to all, and will be happening on July 9th at 6:00 PM at RMI.
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As Michael Geist says

By david.humphrey | Published: June 16, 2008
1. Write to your MP, the Industry Minister, the Canadian Heritage Minister, and the Prime Minister.  If you send an email, be sure to print it out and drop a copy in the mail (no stamp is needed – c/o House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A0A6).  If you are looking for a sample letter, visit [...]
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What’s there if you know how to look

By david.humphrey | Published: June 16, 2008
Proving once again why he’s a unique voice in the open source community, David Eaves layers an interesting geopolitical analysis on the Firefox 3 download campaign. By the way, you know it’s tomorrow, right?
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Not-so-secret Sauce

By david.humphrey | Published: June 11, 2008
We’ve just opened the general Call for Proposals for Seneca’s seventh annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS).  FSOSS is the most fun you’ll have over two days of talks aimed at foss developers, educators, and users.  It’s a great way to get to reach the foss community, and I hope you’ll consider submitting [...]
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