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FISL13

I’ve been here in Porto Alegre, Brazil for a few days now for FISL13 (13° Fórum Internacional Software Livre), where my mission is to get people interested in helping to write and translate developer...

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MDN editing returns!

After an unexpectedly long hiatus, editing of MDN has officially returned. Starting a few hours ago, clicking the “Edit” button on MDN automatically reroutes you to the beta Kuma wiki site, which is...

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Wiki system update for MDN: The time has come at last!

That’s right! We’re finally ready to throw the switch! Tomorrow (that is, Friday, August 3, 2012) we intend to switch from the current MindTouch-based wiki to our new Kuma platform for the Mozilla...

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Five word movie review: “The Dark Knight Rises”

Very good but not fantastic.

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It’s 2012! Where are the home photo hub solutions?

Families share photos. We have multiple computers. Why are there still no home photo servers that let multiple users share a library and maintain the photos, metadata, and so forth all at the same...

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A thought experiment about the development of civilization

I was driving along yesterday and happened to drive past a gas station (which is a pretty common occurrence, as there are three along the main road leading toward my neighborhood). As I did, the...

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The MDN event reference, at last

After years of wishing we had a complete reference to events supported by Firefox (both standard events and non-standard ones, including those used just for add-ons), we finally have one! Louis-Rémi...

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MDN virtual doc sprint starting November 30!

We’re having a virtual — that is, online — MDN documentation sprint from November 30 through December 1! We encourage anyone interested in helping make documentation of and for the open Web to log onto...

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Want to make MDN better but not much of a writer?

The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is (and yeah, I may be a little biased here) one of the greatest online resources for Web developers you’ll find online. We’re constantly writing away, trying to...

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Love Firefox? Love writing? Read on!

Given our ongoing documentation-needed overload, we’ve decided to look into contracting out some writing work to help catch up our Firefox developer documentation. Basically, we’ve not been able to...

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My kingdom for calendar sync that works

Today, I missed that a meeting that I run was about to start, because while all the other attendees knew about it, it wasn’t on my calendar for this week. It’s a biweekly meeting, and my calendars show...

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Sprintime in Vancouver

Ah, spring! The flowers bloom, the snows melt (usually), and lovers of the Web and of Mozilla are heading to Vancouver, British Columbia to participate in our spring documentation sprint at the...

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OK-Writer 1.4 for Mac OS X released

I’ve released OK-Writer 1.4! The latest version of my Mac OS X word processor aimed at children and others who need a simplified user interface for word processing. The new version has new...

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Five word movie review: Europa Report

Compelling, authentic science fiction. Spooky.

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5 word movie review: “Man of Steel”

Entertaining revamp of Superman’s story.

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5-word movie review: “42″

An important story told beautifully.

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Five word movie review: “Hanna”

Good story; overly artistic direction.

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Five word movie review: “Sunshine”

Gripping, taut sci-fi. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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Five-word movie review: “Moon”

Wow. Just wow. Really. Wow.

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A brand-new MDN design to make making the Web better better

Today we launched the new design for the Mozilla Developer Network Web site. We’ve been working on this for a long time, with discussions starting as much as a year ago, and actual coding starting this...

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