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Slides from FOSDEM07
20 March 2007A few people have asked me for these – so I thought I’d post for all.
At FOSDEM this year I gave two talks. The first was a general update on Mozilla in the Mozilla developer room. The second was on the main web track and was a more technical [...]
At FOSDEM this weekend
23 February 2007I’m at FOSDEM this weekend. I’ll be giving a talk in the Mozilla developer room today and a second one in the Web track on Sunday.
If you are here please come by and introduce yourself (I look like this).
Whenever I travel to Europe I’m always struck by a few things:
1) [...]
Acid2!
8 December 2006This morning DBaron checked the reflow branch into the trunk. This is a pretty major step forward for the layout engine that will ship in Firefox3. In David’s words the goals of the reflow refactoring are:
* simplification of code
* fixing incremental reflow (”{inc}”) bugs
[...]
Welcome to Window Snyder!
6 September 2006Window has joined MozCorp recently as our new “Chief Security Something” (that’s a working title ). She’ll be the public voice of Mozilla Corporation on security issues and helping to drive our long-term security strategy.
As you can see from her background below at Microsoft, @stake, and Matansano, she is an amazing person and a [...]
New folks working with Mozilla!
23 August 2006TR Fullhart joined Monday as a full time member of the build team. TR has been doing build and release work for the last 5 years and sysadmin work for several years prior to that. He’s a top perl hacker and is fired up about being involved. We’re really excited to [...]
Welcome to Brian Crowder!
18 August 2006Brian started Monday at the Mozilla Corporation to help hack on Gecko. He’s first task will be to assist Brendan, Igor, and Blake with the JavaScript engine. Brian has used SpiderMonkey before during his work at Sony Online where we worked on everything from Untold Legends for PSP to EverQuest.
Brian’s [...]
Asaf Romano now contributing full time!
10 August 2006Mano, as he’s know on IRC, has been with the project for many years now – helping improve RTL issues, Mac support, and most the Firefox 2 tab overflow implementation. He’s starting today under contract with Mozilla Corporation to contribute to the project full time. Everyone who’s worked with Mano is super [...]
Addons – now with more cowbell!
10 August 2006If you’ve uses AddOns since Saturday afternoon, or just checked for extensions updates within any Mozilla app, you might have noticed that AddOns is much snappier. External monitoring indicates about a 4x speedup in page-load times.
Even more important this means we have much more capacity during release time to keep everything up and [...]
Welcome to Justin Dolske!
9 August 2006Justin starts today as an engineer working on Firefox. He has already come up to speed on parts of the codebase through his work on a few Firefox extensions and most recently by helping Myk with Microsummaries. In addition to the recent Firefox work, Justin brings with him a deep background in networking [...]
Welcome to Robert Sayre!
11 July 2006Yesterday was Robert’s first day at the Mozilla Corporation. He has been contributing to Mozilla projects for some time now – many of you may already know Robert from his Feed handling contributions to both Thunderbird and Firefox. Most recently he implemented the core Feed Handling service behind the vastly [...]