One of the many different things we are trying this year with Quality at Mozilla is exposing opportunities for people to get involved in our projects in more significant, meaningful ways. We’ve always had these kinds of opportunities available, but we’ve historically been terrible at making them known. To remedy …
As leaves begin to turn in some places, the Bay area gets a nice blast of heat in September. It’s like a week of summer that forgot to happen back when we were socked in with fog in July. But, that nice last bit of warmth before our leaves start …
I’m so pleased to be able to finally announce that the Last Stand of Daronwy is published. It’s available in print, ebook, kindle, and pdf from my publisher’s website, Barking Rain Press. If you like the more traditional online booksellers, you can pick up a printed copy on Amazon, a …
This week the A*Team came together as part of the larger Boot2Gecko work week in SF. We worked with a bunch of people across various teams and got a bunch of stuff landed. TBPL We’ve been working toward automation on TBPL for a while. This week we worked with Aki …
From super villains to thugs, from necromancers to biochemists, villains have to come from somewhere. And sometimes, they have to return. Today, the villains are coming home. I’m excited to announce that When the Villain Comes Home is now in print! When the Villain Comes Home is an anthology edited …
I have been waiting and working for twenty years to write these five words: MY NOVEL IS GETTING PUBLISHED! It’s true, it’s happening! Barking Rain Press has decided to publish my young adult fantasy novel, Last Stand of Daronwy. That’s its new title. If you’ve ever heard me talk about …
One of the longest running performance measurements we have is how long it takes Firefox to start. We do it very simply just to get a raw number (and yes, there have been many improvements made but this is the gist of the automation): Start Firefox with a URL ending …
Today started at 4:30AM. I’m not crazy, I had a plan. You see, this entire Thanksgiving weekend, we’ve had a great westerly swell up and down the CA coast. I’ve seen overhead and double-overhead waves all over the place (6-12 feet for you non-surfers). I’ve seen lots of surfers get …
If you work someplace, you have meetings. It’s impossible not to. Because the Automation and Tools team works on many different projects simultaneously, it was natural for us to have one big meeting a week to discuss the status of these projects, raise concerns, make announcements etc. This is also …
In response to David Boswell’s post on getting involved at Mozilla, I thought I’d relate my own story. I worked at a company called SimDesk that decided to reuse the Thunderbird and Sunbird code bases and make a great email application–this was long before the Lightning extension came into being. …