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Four short links: 7 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 7, 2009

App Engine Now Supports XMPP (Jabber) -- messaging servers, whether XMPP or PubSubHubBub, are becoming an increasingly important way to loosely join the small pieces. Google's incorporation of XMPP into GAE reflects this (and the fact that Wave is built on XMPP). (via StPeter on Twitter) Snakes on the Web (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) -- The best way to predict the...

Four short links: 21 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 21, 2009

Us Now -- UK documentary, available streaming or on DVD, about how open government and digital democracy makes sense. It's good to watch if you've not thought about how government could be positively changed by technology, but I don't think it's radical enough in the future it describes. It's Gonna Be The Future Soon -- great video for the...

Recovering text areas from Firefox session information

By Uche Ogbuji
January 13, 2009

A small Python utility to extract saved text area content from Firefox session files.

Turbo-charging JavaScript - Trace Trees and V8

By Kurt Cagle
September 21, 2008

Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of JavaScript capabilities due to Trace Trees and precompiled JavaScript will likely play a major part in that evolution.

No EULA for Mozilla Firefox

By chromatic
September 17, 2008

Mitchell Baker of Mozilla reports that they have revised their decision to include a EULA-like notification in the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution. The debate over Mozilla's decision reveals two important debates in the free software world.

Audio: Mozilla's Frank Hecker on Politics 2.0, Open Source, and Participatory Democracy

By Timothy M. O'Brien
September 12, 2008

O'Reilly News interviews Mozilla's Frank Hecker at Personal Democracy Forum 2008 in New York City. In this 25 minute interview you'll hear Frank Hecker talking about Mozilla's mission and structure, as well as his own views on how open source could provide a model for involving citizens in participatory democracy.

Seeking Ubiquity

By Kurt Cagle
September 9, 2008

The command line is perhaps the most fundamental of all user interfaces - at a terminal, a prompt character appears that you can type in a command with zero or more arguments, then press the Return key to evaluate that command. As an interface it has some serious limitations - there are typically few indications about what specifically can be typed into that interface, or the action that will ensue once you do enter the line, but for programmers in particular, the command line is also the foundation on which every other user interface ultimately rests.

Harmony comes to JavaScript, but Not Everyone's Singing

By Kurt Cagle
August 19, 2008

A long and contentious struggle came to an end this week as ECMA Technical Committee 39, responsible for the development and maintenance of ECMAScript (known universally everywhere else as JavaScript), voted to establish ECMAScript 3.1 as the next "trunk" branch for the venerable web browser language, rather than the more ambitious (and contentious ECMAScript 4.0). While the breaking of the deadlock is a momentous achievement, not everyone is happy with it.

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 2

By Ben Longoria
February 20, 2008

In the first part of this series I gave an introductory look at Mozilla, and started to answer the statement posed in the title. In this article we'll look at the various RIA technologies and runtimes that Mozilla has to offer. First we'll look at the building blocks, or what one would use to build applications. Then we'll look at runtimes, what you use to run your applications.

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 1

By Ben Longoria
February 20, 2008

In this series of articles I will be looking at why RIA developers should be interested in Mozilla. This is an important topic, especially if you're one of those wise and pragmatic developers who likes to pick the right tool for the job, which we all are right? Learning about the breadth of the technologies that Mozilla's projects cover can potentially save you a lot of work for your next project!

Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention - Part 3

By Ben Longoria
February 19, 2008

In the previous two articles we looked at who Mozilla is, what technologies they have, and attempted to answer the statement in the title. To be well-rounded, we will look at some core issues that may be hampering adoption of Mozilla technologies, and what could help.

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