05.24.11 - 08:18am
Rob Helmer: “I’m here to introduce a project we’ve been working on for the past few months: Perf-O-Matic 2.0″ We’ve always been pretty good about collecting data at Mozilla, but things are really ramping up as we grow. In addition to Perfomatic 2.0, we’ve got several other efforts already completed, or underway now: Test Pilot [...]
05.19.11 - 09:38am
One unanticipated benefit of our switch to a new release system is the increase in communication that’s been required. I found it to be kind of a pain at first, though as we’ve picked up speed, I’m starting to see the benefits roll in. We have a lot of new ways for project members to [...]
05.16.11 - 06:27pm
A post on meetings by Merlin Mann. A few months ago, I started doing a bunch of the things he suggests. They seem to work. “Broken Meetings (and how you’ll fix them)” from Merlin Mann on Vimeo. I hate meetings, but they can be tolerable. These tips help (the good stuff happens at around 29:00). [...]
05.16.11 - 04:36am
I visited Asa Dotzler’s post about trees today, and I noticed some requests headed for a strange server. I was using my laptop tethered to a T-Mobile phone. I looked at the source, and found this image tag: <img src=”http://64.19.142.12/farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/4376295211_b9d0014b3e_z.jpg” class=”photo”> That src URL looked fairly suspect. I couldn’t figure out why Flickr would prefix [...]
04.02.11 - 11:21am
Glyph Lefkowitz on fixing HTTPS: We (those of us in the open source hipster security noosphere) need to popularize this concept, because it’s not that hard to implement, people keep re-inventing it everywhere, it’s mostly just about getting some browser vendor to think it’s a good idea. Speaking only for myself, I am convinced this [...]
