One of the goals for Thunderbird 3 is to be a much better platform for which to develop add-ons. We’re planning and doing some in-product and in-codebase work to that end, including documenting APIs (shocking, I know), bundling STEEL, which should make it easy to do 80% of what add-on authors want to do without [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Thunderbird is PC World’s 43rd best product in 2008
PC World’ s editors have selected Mozilla Thunderbird as one of “The 100 Best Products of 2008 Award” winners, specifically in the 43rd position, in between the Rock Band controllers and the Dell XPS 420 (???). That’s a weird and fascinating list. I’m not a huge fan of this kind of list in general. However, [...]
Thunderbird is PC World's 43rd best product in 2008
PC World’ s editors have selected Mozilla Thunderbird as one of “The 100 Best Products of 2008 Award” winners, specifically in the 43rd position, in between the Rock Band controllers and the Dell XPS 420 (???). That’s a weird and fascinating list. I’m not a huge fan of this kind of list in general. However, [...]
Open source networked interactive whiteboards?
If you’ve never seen Johnny Lee’s videos explaining how he uses cheap Wii remotes to do amazing things, check out the TED video, or his home page. Now after watching that video, I snuck into the ActiveState game room, and poked around with the wiimotes & projector there. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on [...]
Twitter Thoughts
So, this twitter thing. Or maybe, I should say, this twitter category, in which I’ll lump Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed, Facebook status updates, etc. What to think of it? First, an admission: I feel like I don’t yet know what I’m talking about, in the sense that I don’t feel the value proposition yet the way [...]
Romania ahead
I’ll be heading out to Romania next week, to talk in Bucharest at eLiberatica about Mozilla and open source, and to learn about everything from open source in eastern Europe to food (always). I’ll also be visiting my grandfather’s hometown (Braşov) for a bit of personal root-digging. Should be fun, especially if I get rid [...]
Dangerous Strategy Meetings
I just got back from doing a podcast for RainCity Radio, with Zak, Boris, and Dave Olson as host. The podcast was fun, as was the conversation afterwards with Zak and Boris. Unfortunately, the day was so beautiful that we went out for a beer to complement our strategy brainstorming. Nothing like drinking a good [...]
New folks!
Two new additions to the Mozilla Messaging crew, which I’m quite pleased to talk about. I’d like to welcome Philippe Chiasson, who will be taking on everything “IT” for MoMo, in close collaboration with MoCo IT. Think of him as “root@mozillamessaging.com”. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Gozer (as he is known) for several [...]
Prize money for a good Thunderbird/OpenOffice.org project
Something else I’ve had on my blogging queue for a while: Last month, when we had the Calendar meeting in Hamburg, we met with some of the OpenOffice.org and Sun engineers. One idea that came up that I intended to mention here is that OpenOffice.org has a Community Innovation Program, funded by Sun Microsystems, which [...]
University of Toronto Student Projects
What feels like years ago, my friend Greg Wilson, a book author CS prof at the University of Toronto with a deep understanding of both the practical realities of software engineering and open source, roped me into being a “client” for a class he teaches on software engineering, where he matches students with open source [...]
