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Surviving and Thriving in the Sauna

Judging by the blog posts that covered Mozilla at FOSDEM already, there seems to be general consensus that it was a great success.

Get some up to date coverage here:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2008:Happenings

I don’t have much more to add, except to say that I agree, it was really great this year. A larger attendance in the Mozilla room, higher [...]

links for 2008-02-26

Born Irish, but With Illegal Parents
Immigrant stories from Ireland.
(tags: ireland immigration)

links for 2008-02-19

Day Out: Amsterdam – Historic Area, Great Shopping – Travel – New York Times
(tags: amsterdam travel)

Mozdev Projects by Application

A nice new feature at mozdev.org is the ability to see what Mozilla applications the extensions/themes/other XPI thingies are are targeted at. This is not only useful for searching, but gives a good bird’s eye view of what apps that developers deem worth working with. Of course, the numbers don’t reflect the real popularity of [...]

FOSDEM 08 Run-Up Round-Up

The event is happening in less than 2 weeks, so I wanted to fill you in on the latest news from a Mozilla perspective.

- The schedule is now frozen and up on the FOSDEM site, notwithstanding some minor errors and omissions:
http://fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/mozilla
For more detailed descriptions of the talks, go to:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2008:Schedule

- If you are attending and requested [...]

links for 2008-02-13

BlackBerry Outage Frustrates Users Again
This did not effect Europe, or rather I did not notice anyway. Push email is nice, but pumping all email through RIM’s server just begs for disruptions like this. A new push model, I hear you say, is needed.
(tags: blackberry phones email)

YouTube – yapta’s Channel
Lots of good coverage for Yapta
(tags: yapta)

links for 2008-02-12

The Future of Firefox: Chris Blizzard speaks at SCALE
Chris Blizzard on Firefox on Linux, Firefox 3, Mozilla Mobile, and more.
(tags: linux firefox mozilla)

BBC – Food – Recipes – Food for diabetics
A decent cooking resource on the Beeb.
(tags: diabetes cooking food)

links for 2008-02-07

Adobe Edge: February 2008
What Adobe are thinking and doing about Open Source
(tags: opensource eliberatica2008)

Born from Firefox – LinuxWorld
Round up of the usual suspects using the Mozilla platform, and some discussion on the reasons why
(tags: xulrunner mozilla opensource firefox)

links for 2008-02-03

Slashdot | Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year
(tags: eliberatica2008 linux opensource)

New Ajax IDE and Mozilla

There is a new Ajax IDE on the block, and it is built on Mozilla code. Or at least it is new to me, I have not seen mention of it around before today.

Jaxer is an Ajax server that plugs into the broader Aptana Studio. I’m not sure at this point if the whole IDE [...]