Christopher Blizzard

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Month: May, 2008

it’s like a little spy novel

I’ve often heard the mysterious and intentionally vague stories from David about his former employer – NDS. David just posted about an article in wired magazine that interviews one of the people at the heart of a great story. Worth reading. And watch the video – it’s damn cool.

some random mozilla-related links for your enjoyment

Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.

He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.

He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being [...]

Firefox Download Day

Firefox 3 is about to be released and we’re trying to set a world record for the most number of downloads in a day. So sign up for the list and get ready. Our release date will be announced soon!

an important word from our sponsor

Babies are still cute.

That is all. Carry on.

mozilla on directfb

Over the last few months some of our contributors have been hacking away on trying to get Mozilla running on directfb systems on top of gtk. You can see Niranjan’s latest post on the topic here as well as the DirectFB Porting Page in our wiki. Sounds like they have things mostly up [...]

helvetica

On John’s great review I added Helvetica to my Netflix queue and watched it late last night.

What a fantastic documentary! As a movie I felt it was really well done – great pacing, great interviews and felt like it really found the heart of the story. It started out by talking about the [...]

“twitter reach” as a metric?

Karim got me thinking about metrics around twitter. He’s suggesting a followers to following ratio (in my case about 164/132: 1.23 or so – grown from 148/119.)

I personally like posts / followers, which helps understand how many people you’re reaching. In my case that’s about 337/164 – or about 2.05. Should that [...]

more background on fsync on linux

Mike Shaver put up an excellent piece on the current status of the fsync issues on Linux. It’s worth a read if you care about such things.

some light weekend fare

I present to you: Pork and Beans.

You’re welcome.

mozilla unit testing on linux

Rob Campbell posted a howto for people who want to run Mozilla unit tests on Linux. If you’ve ever wondered how to do it, it’s a decent overview on how to get started. And it’s pretty relevant to what I posted yesterday.