Monthly Archives: January 2009

Surman in the Globe

There’s a good interview with Mark in the Globe and Mail, Open-source politics breathe fresh air into the Big Smoke: If open culture is thriving in Toronto, it’s in part because Toronto is a conspicuously connected place. It’s not just its modest but vibrant Web-startup scene, or the fact that Google recently opened offices in Dundas [...]
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“mozconfig” — a play in two acts

Today while trying to figure out a strange build error with a student (mozconfig doesn’t like CR as much as CRLF), Ted decided to share a bit about the inner life of mozconfig.  I repeat it with permission for your reading pleasure. Act I You run “make -f client.mk” The run_for_side_effects line runs mozconfig2client-mk This uses mozconfig-find to find [...]
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Why blother?

I’ve earned a reputation with my students and colleagues as being “the guy who makes you blog.”  I don’t mind that, actually.  As the new students get going on their open source work, I thought I’d make my point by showing some recent examples of why this is important. First, let it be said that if [...]
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“You have 15 new messages from 000-000-0000″

I just wanted to say thank-you to the CRTC for insuring that we no longer get calls from telemarketers since they’ve introduced the “Do Not Call List.”  I should probably also thank them on behalf of the dozens of people now calling me who were able to get my number by buying the list for [...]
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I’ve picked my Mac project

I’ve been hunting around for a good project to do while I freeload in Peter’s Mac Development class.  I’m just about to finish up my Thunderbird Growl and Spotlight integration bugs, and I’ll be needing something new to do.  Here it is: Bug 457546 – add Quick look [...]
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Canvas3D and C3DL hit Ars

Gary pointed me to an article on Ars Technica today about Canvas3D and Cathy’s C3DL js lib: Another project that we have been watching closely is the Canvas 3D JavaScript library (C3DL), which aims to facilitate the development of browser-based interactive 3D graphics with JavaScript. It is highly experimental and is still at a relatively early [...]
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I wondered how long this would take

The continuing strike at York is a disaster, and if you needed more proof, there’s word today that first-year applications are down: The number of high-school students selecting York as their first choice for university fell by close to 15 per cent this year. The drop comes at a time when several other campuses in the [...]
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We could do this

One of my colleagues is teaching a class on Cocoa and iPhone development, and it happens to fit nicely into my schedule.  Today he was showing different bits of Inteface Builder and XCode, and I paused to ponder the Research Assistant: It got me thinking that a Mozilla version of this would be great as a [...]
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Seneca partnership with Eclipse WTP project

I’ve written previously about my colleague Jordan working on and with Eclipse WTP.  Today I see a nice article in IT World Canada about the partnership: Past collaborations with Mozilla Corp. and Red Hat Inc. have proved fruitful for the communities and students, and “now, what we’re interested to do, is grow this and clone it [...]
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Happy Mac is Happy

Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I was thankful for CUPS.  My in-law’s printer had been shared over their network via an SMB share on a Windows XP box.  After 10 years, that old Gateway decided it was time to head to greener pastures.  Luckily, I had an old Ubuntu box sitting in [...]
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