Archive | August, 2005

Extension Location – How to Find it

on 30-Aug-2005 in Lizard

As the Mozilla Extension Manager has evolved, it has become possible to install extensions in multiple locations. Before you were locked into it being put in the extensions/ area of the user profile or the application chrome area. Now you can put it in other locations, including (on Window) a folder with a GUID-to-path registry [...]

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Culinary High Life

on 25-Aug-2005 in Travel

Via a story on BBC: Are you in the minority that likes airplane food, or do you dread when the cart comes around? Whatever the answer is, you might enjoy the site www.airlinemeals.net. There is an enormous amount of information there, with profile of meals (pictures, commentary, ratings …) from nearly every world airline. I [...]

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Floods in Eastern Slovenia

on 23-Aug-2005 in Slovenia

We have had pretty severe floods here over the last few days, as has been the case all across much of central Europe. The worst hit regions were along the banks of the Mura river in Prekmurje and the Dolenjska region, particularly between Krško and Sevnica/Celje. I live close to the affected areas but we [...]

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Packaging Extensions for Deer Park (Firefox 1.5)

on 10-Aug-2005 in Lizard

This question is still popping up on lists. Just today from the mozdev.org project owners list: Where can I find documentation on how to make my extension run in Deer Park? http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bundles http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Chrome_Registration Note the deprecated property reference in install.rdf. In short, if you want your extension to work only in 1.5 (Deer Park and [...]

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ActiveState Blogs Online

on 7-Aug-2005 in Blogging, Lizard

I see that ActiveState now has some blogspace going for their employees. If you have not already heard of them, the company (based in Vancouver, Canada), produces some excellent tools for dynamic languages, primarily Perl and Python. They use Mozilla as the platform for the Komodo IDE. I worked at ActiveState back in 2000/2001. This [...]

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Technorati Spam

on 3-Aug-2005 in Blogging

No, not unsolicited emails from technorati, but rather how spammers are using blog tagging to boost their linkage. Their are multiple side-effects of course, including dilution of tag categories, and feed spam. Read more about it – The Dark Side of Technorati Tags.

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mozdev.org is Down

on 2-Aug-2005 in Lizard

The mozdev.org site, plus all services (lists, CVS, ….) has been down since about 11amEST today. Our hosting facility had a broken water pipe and the place was flooded. They had to shut down power, including their back-up generator. They hope to have power back on at end of day.

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