Thunder\’s Blog

Dear Windows,

Can’t you create files like “NTUSER.DAT{3d4e88f1-6a70-11db-b1ba-d64300c9c793}.TMContainer00000000000000000002.regtrans-ms” somewhere other than in my home directory?  How did you ever think that would be a good idea?

Love,
Dan

This past week I have been in Tokyo, Japan. I was lucky to be able to come here for the Firefox Developer’s Conference last saturday, and even luckier to be able to work from Mozilla Japan’s offices for this week.

The conference was fantastic, in my opinion. There is a great deal of excitement around Firefox here, and there is a vibrant (and growing, from what I could tell) extension developer community. About 160-170 people came to the event, which was fully translated to and from Japanese. It was a great experience, and I’d like to congratulate the Mozilla Japan team for their work there!

I had two small demos at the “Debucon” (the conference). I only had 15 minutes, which made it a little challenging, but I talked a little about Places, showed off Steve Won’s tagging prototype, and also a very early bookmarks sync prototype I hacked up by using Rob Sayrer’s sync.js. It wasn’t as polished as I would’ve liked, I think, but it went well enough.

Unfortunately I lost my camera a few months ago when it fell out of my pocket on a plane, but others took photos of the event. There are some by Shaver here (featuring me with the headset!) and by Gen here.

Yesterday, I was able to participate in another event, this time here at Mozilla Japan HQ. IT Media’s Biz.ID organized a group of Japanese bloggers to come and discuss Mozilla and Firefox 3 with us. We prepared a short presentation for them and answered questions. An article about the event is here [Japanese] — very cool (for me) to see “ダン・ミルズさん” [Mr Dan Mills] in an article. It was very interesting to meet them and have a discussion, though I have to say, I’m glad I don’t have any more deadlines for presentations right now… so I can concentrate on my *other* deadlines ;)