Christopher Blizzard

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Month: July, 2008

fennec on the big screen

This image was taken from the overhead projector during Jay’s morning talk about mobile.

two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and canvas for IE

Two cool things coming out at the summit today.

First, Mozilla is committing to include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be Firefox 3.1 if there no huge change in course.) The code landed for ogg support last [...]

this is what the mozilla community looks like

Developers, managers, execs, testers, translators, qa folks, build folks, admins, artists, interface designers, HR people, sys admins, community development folks, and many more. Pretty awesome. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

this whoisi feature is brought to you by joe shaw

My good friend Joe did some coding for whoisi a few weeks ago and I finally got around to merging it into the production code base. He’s added a really handy little feature: recommendations.

If you’re following a few people on the site and you’re looking for other people who might be related to them, [...]

road runner: now 3% faster than dialup

I’ve been following Om Malik as he writes about the upcoming metered, capped broadband that cable companies are starting to shift to in the US. Here’s a quote from an article that he posted recently:

Road Runner Standard package provides 7Mbps service and includes an Internet usage consumption allowance of 20GB per month. Although the [...]

speaking on monday at OSCON

I’ll be speaking at OSCON on monday at the open mobile exchange. I’m speaking at 2pm with a talk titled the browser is the new open mobile platform. Should be fun – come and say hi!

a session worth attending at OSCON

I didn’t realize it but both Ben and Taras will be at OSCON and will be talking about code analysis and code rewriting.

While that might sound boring, it’s not. In fact, if you’re interested at all in how to do analysis on a large C++ code base and see some of the fantastic tools that [...]

the new GNOME duality

Havoc mentioned that he had talked to me about the emerging GNOME duality after coming back from GUADEC. He also suggested that I post something about it. I’ll try to put my thoughts down here on paper.

First of all, I think that the GNOME project is in a really strange place right now. [...]

whoisi activity stream for OSCON 2008

In my original post on whoisi I made a remark about wanting to keep track of events:

You also might notice that I have an entry above that just says “@fisl2008″. This is me just playing with events. One thing I’ve always wanted is the ability to say “I’m going to be at this event and [...]

flashblock port to MicroB

Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C and C++, not in XUL. (I also assume that Antonio did this work?)

As [...]