J. Paul Reed
Seth Thomas
Seth Thomas
In case you missed it, Mozilla’s own Brandon Burton (aka @solarce) joined the panel for the most recent episode of The Ship Show1, to talk about his research into and experiences with building and rolling out an internal platform-as-a-service (PaaS). He had a lot of interesting stories and data about introducing PaaS infrastructure at Mozilla Read More
I wasn’t going to even bother saying anything, but raccettura’s post goaded me into it. Let’s put this in some perspective:Apple—user experience and design queen Apple—is to the rightof Mozilla’s position on this issue! Allow me to succinctly cut through all the cacophony on this: version numbers matter1. They’ve always mattered. And they will continue Read More
I had commented on Mozilla’s new “rapid release process” before the PR storm, but it in tweet form, so I figured I’d expound on it a bit. A lot of the focus has been on Dave Winer’s post (and his followup). His post has been tarred as “incomprehensible” by some1. I tweeted a (humorously-intended) translation Read More
Last week marked that time of the year again: the week where everyone heads to the Mozilla Summit, and the Mozilla Project all but shuts down. This was the second year the Summit was held in Whistler, BC. It has a reputation for being a raucously great time, even if getting home can be a Read More
When I joined Mozilla Corporation, you either ran your own blog1, had a Mozillazine blog, or didn’t involve yourself in such frivolities at all.3 Release pattern diagram for major software projects I remember asking the then-VP of Engineering who I should talk to about “getting my blog Mozilla set up.” Since the company was about Read More
The Mozilla Project has a history of producing useful software and tools in the pursuit of its main mission that are not directly in the path of its mission. MozillaBuild is one of these. If you’re trying to build something that’s in any way similar to or remotely expects a Unix-ishy environment, and you don’t Read More
The definition of “latest and greatest version” just changed… I heard some some rumbling that the latest version of Firefox, version 3.51, hit the web today. This is most certainly a big accomplishment and everyone involved has many reasons to be proud of this release. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about2. I Read More
It’s like a Turbo button… only faster!12 In between the constant grind of getting releases out the door, it’s often a struggle to find time to make improvements that are imminently noticeable. That’s not to say that us build engineers are sitting in a room, typing make && cp over and over again and staring Read More
Remember what Preed The Build Engineer says:“Bad Checkins Hold Everyone Hostage!” This Valentine’s Day1, the boyfriend and I bucked convention and took the opportunity to do something we had both randomly expressed interest in some weeks earlier, but neither of us had done before: learn how to shoot a gun. We found a shooting range2, Read More
Ack! I got tagged! Planet has been awash in this meme the last few days, so I’ll try to make mine short. Or interesting. Well… one of those, at least. In roughly chronological order: I was born without a hip socket, a congenital birth defect that wasn’t diagnosed until I was 17 months old and Read More