Archive | February, 2008

Surviving and Thriving in the Sauna

on 27-Feb-2008 in Events, Lizard, Travel

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 [...]

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links for 2008-02-26

on 26-Feb-2008 in Links

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

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links for 2008-02-19

on 19-Feb-2008 in Links

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

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Mozdev Projects by Application

Mozdev Projects by Application

on 14-Feb-2008 in Lizard

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 [...]

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FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers

FOSDEM 08 Run-Up Round-Up

on 13-Feb-2008 in Events, Lizard

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 [...]

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links for 2008-02-13

on 13-Feb-2008 in Links

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 [...]

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links for 2008-02-12

on 12-Feb-2008 in Links

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)

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links for 2008-02-07

on 7-Feb-2008 in Links

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)

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links for 2008-02-03

on 3-Feb-2008 in Links

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

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New Ajax IDE and Mozilla

on 1-Feb-2008 in Lizard

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 [...]

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