Monthly Archives: June 2009

Proud to be a part of Firefox 3.5

By david.humphrey | Published: June 29, 2009
Tomorrow (or maybe today if you’re reading this on Tuesday) is a big day.  It’s the day that Firefox 3.5 will be released, and with it, an upgrade for the entire web.  Mozilla’s done a fabulous job of showcasing some of these new things here and here, so I won’t repeat what you can read [...]
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Introducing DXR – Bringing Static Analysis to the Web

By david.humphrey | Published: June 28, 2009
For a while now, whenever I’ve had spare time, I’ve been “building a boat in my basement.”  Today I’m pleased to bring it out and launch it:  I’d like to announce the first public release of DXR, version 0.1. DXR is a two things.  First, it’s a method for collecting type, member, statement, macro, etc. information [...]
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“students want to produce meaningful output”

By david.humphrey | Published: June 11, 2009
A number of people sent me a link to this story about Kyle Brady and his ordeal getting his school to let him post the source code to his assignments.  In the spirit of the academy, Kyle wanted to share the results of his work.  His professor said no and threatened to fail him, and [...]
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“You may need to apply force”

By david.humphrey | Published: June 9, 2009
This is the story of the time my wife and I decided to mount her 24″ iMac to the wall.  I’ll just cut to the chase: you can do it; don’t try it. Straight, plumb, square, centred, level–pick any eight.  That’s what we were after.  Our goal was to perfectly fit this iMac as tight to [...]
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FSOSS 2009 accepting Presentation Proposals

By david.humphrey | Published: June 9, 2009
This year’s Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) is now accepting presentation proposals.  In addition to the regular talks and and workshops at FSOSS, there will also be a 1-day Teaching Open Source Summit.  If you’re working in open source or open source education, consider submitting a talk proposal to one of these two [...]
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Mozilla Education Goal: 100 Student Projects by June 30

By david.humphrey | Published: June 5, 2009
Three months ago Mozilla Education started a project to actively look for student projects.  Each morning I get email from bugzilla with the list of newly added student-project bugs (I got 11 this morning).  As I write this we have 61 potential projects.  I’m hoping to have that hit 100 before the end of June, [...]
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Field Stone: “The threshold is always stony”

By david.humphrey | Published: June 2, 2009
This morning I read Luke’s discussion of the threshold, and his use of a quotation from Heidegger (“The threshold is always stony…“) put me in mind of something I had wanted to write this weekend.  On Sunday my wife and I worked to finish some gardens around our house.  Actually, we worked to finish some [...]
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