Tag Archives: addons

JPL Phase 3 – Mozilla at SXSW

on 17-Feb-2010 in Events, Lizard

So we have entered phase 3 of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. This will consist of continuing work for the 10 successful projects from Phase 2, culminating in the Design Camp at SWSW on 10-12 March. Read ‘Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge invites 10 teams to Design Camp‘ at Mozilla Labs. The 10 chosen projects [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }
Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

More Jetpack Goodness

on 1-Feb-2010 in Lizard

Herein lies some random Jetpack snippets of information. The Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge is coming to the end of Phase 2. Judging commences today on the wonderful entries, with up to 5 teams being chosen to go to the design camp in Texas before SXSW Interactive in March. I’ve added a tiny Jetpack to [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }
Flickr Find

Introducing Flickr Find

on 28-Jan-2010 in Briks, Lizard

Did you ever need that perfect image for a presentation you were doing? Flickr Find makes it easy. Creative Commons images are returned by default, but you can make an easy change to search all images. Requirements Firefox 3.6 or greater Jetpack Add-on 0.7 or greater Install Flickr Find is available at the Jetpack Gallery. [...]

Read full story • Comments { 7 }
Slupper - File upload

File Upload in a Jetpack – Slupper

on 25-Jan-2010 in Lizard

I was really impressed with the File Upload demo on Mozilla Hacks because it mixed in a few nice technologies like XHR upload progress events, Canvas, and the File API new in Firefox 3.6. It turns out that I needed to talk about some of the things in last week’s Jetpack for Learning seminar. So [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }
Fennec Add-ons Manager

Firefox Mobile Add-ons – One Small Step for Mankind

on 4-Jun-2009 in Events, Lizard

By small in the title, I mean small devices. One large step was taken in the Fennec add-ons ecosystem over the weekend at the Mozilla/Maemo get together in Copenhagen [pictures, tweets]. Present were a large chunk of the Fennec developement team, add-on developers, localisers, and community members. We shared the space with Maemo developers and [...]

Read full story • Comments { 3 }

Retrieving Your Extension Version

on 6-Jan-2009 in Lizard

From time to time when reviewing add-ons on AMO, I notice that the version number of the extension is hard-coded. The author needs it to fork some code because of API differences across versions of the Mozilla application, or perhaps some other reason. Hard-coding is not necessary. In most cases the version should only be [...]

Read full story • Comments { 7 }
Beverages

Paris Wrap-Up

on 24-Sep-2008 in Briks, Events, Lizard, Travel

Some random thoughts on the weekend just passed in Paris. Mozilla Addons Workshop (MAOW08) – Good venue, well equipped. The audience was spit into different perspectives but there were screens and televisions scattered around making sure every could see and hear the speakers. – I enjoyed Wladimir‘s talk. It focused less on popups (or lack [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

MAOW 08 Slides Published

on 20-Sep-2008 in Briks, Events, Lizard

Here are the slides from my talk at MAOW 08 in Paris. Or if you prefer other formats: PDF PPT

Read full story • Comments { 5 }
Newer posts →