Archive for the 'Work' Category

KwiClick 2.1 Released

KwiClick 2.1 has just been made public on amo You can download it from here. Here is a mini breakdown of what is new in this release: Firefox 3.1 compatibility Support for private browsing mode The ability to select favorite providers Uninstall survey Firefox search integration A close button Ability to open search results in [...]

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KwiClick Innovative Firefox Addon

The guys at KwiClick have put together a great introduction video for the KwiClick extension. Check it out. You can get the extension here. Please, take it for a test drive and give it a review.

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Mozilla Bugs

I’ve been working on Firefox and Mozilla extensions since 2002. In all these years of playing and working with the Mozilla source code, I’ve never hit so many bugs that effect the product I’m working. I’ve compiled a list and I’m hoping I might be able to spark some attention on them. 453274 – the [...]

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KwiClick 2.0

I’ve been working on an extension for Firefox 3 called KwiClick. Yesterday I finished my work on it, and version 2.0 has now been put on addons.mozilla.org. You can download it here. It is still marked as experimental so you will have to log in to be able to download it. KwiClick integrates different web [...]

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Django 1.0

I know I’m a couple of weeks late, but Django 1.0 was released on September 3rd. If you are looking for a framework for web development. Make sure you check it out. Django is one of the easiest framework I’ve ever used. That is especially telling since I was learning python at the same time [...]

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Republican Reactions to Sarah Palin’s Speech

Propeller anchors Alexia Pritchard and James Marcus are covering the Republican National Convention. They have gotten some great video of peoples reactions to Sarah Palin’s speech last night. You can discuss the story over on Propeller.

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XUL Pain

I’ve hit a dilemma on a project I’m working on. I want to create a panel similar to the new bookmark and identity panels. The panel has an iframe in it to display web pages. I want the panel to be movable, resizable and animated (similar to the alert slider). This isn’t very easy to [...]

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New Propeller

Now that we have been working on the new version of propeller for several months, Tom has started to post some information about it. I especially like our little mascot “Propeller Professor”. You can vote for the story here.

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Ryan Budke Interview

David Cohn interviewed Ryan Budke last night. Both guys are members of the scout team at Propeller. The interview gives you some insight into who the people behind propeller are and what we’ve been up to. I think the video is well worth the watch.

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Work Tunes

During my day to day work activities I usually listen to a podcast or watch a movie. When I’m actually head down coding as hard as possible I tend to listen to music. I have an eclectic but very specific play list. Do you have a play list when you are working hard? Does it [...]

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