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Button Pushing

Big Blue took on a whole new meaning tonight. I am so buying an IBM Model M keyboard tomorrow. But first things first….

posted by caillon 27-Aug-2004 at 04:38 -05:00 | permalink

Come Back Soon

My sister came to visit me recently, which is why I haven't been posting as much lately. I took her around Boston, Cambridge, and Nashua. We had fun, even though it rained quite a bit on Sunday and soaked us. She just left yesterday. Now I can get back to work ;-)

posted by caillon 24-Aug-2004 at 13:56 -05:00 | permalink

Crash64

I have a crasher on 64-bit platforms. Yay. This one looks like it will be “fun” to debug. If anyone happens to feel inclined, I wouldn't mind extra eyes here especially since I have some other priorities.

posted by caillon 19-Aug-2004 at 01:26 -05:00 | permalink

Ooh, Shiny

I got a GNOME CVS account today. Thanks Jonathan for help with that and with getting my first GNOME code checked in!

posted by caillon 17-Aug-2004 at 03:08 -05:00 | permalink

Rawhide b0rked

Things are being "special" lately. Case in point:

In file included from /home/caillon/builds/firefox/aviary/mozilla/gfx/src/freetype/nsFreeType.h:39, from /home/caillon/builds/firefox/aviary/mozilla/gfx/src/freetype/nsFreeType.cpp:48: ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:53: error: `GetImageCache' declared as a `virtual' field ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:53: warning: `visibility' attribute ignored ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:53: error: expected `;' before '(' token ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:92: error: `ImageCacheLookup' declared as a `virtual' field ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:92: warning: `visibility' attribute ignored ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:92: error: expected `;' before '(' token ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:104: error: `FTC_Image_Cache' has not been declared ../../../dist/include/gfx/nsIFreeType2.h:104: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `cache' with no type

After a bunch of fiddling, I figured the above was from a b0rked freetype update. So I went back to the old freetype packages. Now I get:

`.L107' referenced in section `.rodata' of ../../dist/lib/libgkconhtmlstyle_s.a(nsROCSSPrimitiveValue.o): defined in discarded section `.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN21nsROCSSPrimitiveValue5ResetEv' of ../../dist/lib/libgkconhtmlstyle_s.a(nsROCSSPrimitiveValue.o)

posted by caillon 13-Aug-2004 at 14:23 -05:00 | permalink

Right

So I found a reason why my previous icon patch incarnations suck. Though not too bad. They are salvagable still. Working on a patch so this can be future safe....

posted by caillon 12-Aug-2004 at 23:31 -05:00 | permalink

Back from CA

Got back last night. Spent a bit of time catching back up on e-mail. Today, I took a look at the work that Ganesh did with porting my gtk stock icon patch to the aviary branch. I'm pretty pleased. I just needed to do a few minor tweaks to it, and run autoconf. Saved me quite a bit of work (thanks!). Also I'd like to thank Mike Connor for his work on the front end portion of the patch.

For the curious, the current patch is at http://people.redhat.com/caillon/patches/mozilla/gtk-stock-icons/gtk2-stock-icons.patch.

posted by caillon 11-Aug-2004 at 23:40 -05:00 | permalink

Dev Day

In California now for Mozilla Developer Day. I landed at SFO on Thursday. Dwitte picked me up -- late -- although, not really, since I managed to get an earlier flight.

Today, we arrived at Googleplex at around 8:30am or so to help set up everything. I brought some donuts upstairs, and then arranged name badges for attendees. Then dwitte and I manned the t-shirt booth. Handed out a good amount of swag, and then went in to watch the fun.

Mitchell was probably the best speaker of the day, with a letter from some random guy doing research on goats (...must...get...copy...please...send) who thought Firefox was the best thing since sliced bread. We aim to please goat lovers. The talk by shaver and brendan was refreshingly different from the one that I had heard at DesktopCon. They talked about canvas a bit and using cairo. Seems pretty cool.

I'm also quite pleased to have met roc. He gave two presentations, and gave a kick ass demo on an implementation of column support which he hacked up at some point. Oh, and the octopus demo that shaver mentioned at DDC.

I also met bclary and chatted with him for a bit which was great. He was one of the first people I spoke to when I got started with the Mozilla project. He gave a good talk on how to make sure your site was compatible with Mozilla. He has some scriptlets or something on his site that I apparently need to have a look at sometime. I also met Andy Edmonds, who is arranging the ACM Hypertext conference I'm presenting at on Monday. And I was flagged down by Lorenzo Colitti and thanked for fixing bug 86193, the context menu bug.

Toward the end, Asa was handing out free t-shirts and posters. We then got booted out by Google security. I grabbed a bottle of wine on the way out the door.

posted by caillon 10-Aug-2004 at 14:53 -05:00 | permalink

ACM Hypertext Conference 2004

Writing this during Myk's talk about ForumZilla. I just gave my presentation on XPCOM from script earlier. It seemed to go pretty well. I also managed to throw in a demo of both DOM Inspector and Venkman. The tutorial attendee list is a bit smaller than I anticipated, but that perhaps is good, since this is pretty much the first formal talk that I've given.

The campus of UCSC is quite messed up though. The parking lot is at the bottom of some large hill with an insane amount of stairs to climb. The suck thing is that you have to climb up the stairs, get your parking pass, climb down, and then climb back up to the conference (class) rooms. But then again, since this is a college campus, the females are out in flocks. Good times.

posted by caillon 09-Aug-2004 at 19:08 -05:00 | permalink

Wireless at Stanford

Fry's is such a great store. We got a wireless router there for $50. I'm using the connection off of it right now from outside on one of the benches. When I leave, dwitte will return the router. Wonderful.

posted by caillon 07-Aug-2004 at 20:08 -05:00 | permalink

You Know You Want It

And now for the release you've all been waiting for. Get your Mozilla 1.4.3 release, hot off the soldering iron! Ah, the fruits of labor. Four weeks of labor. Agonizing weeks.

posted by caillon 04-Aug-2004 at 14:51 -05:00 | permalink

Branches Suck

That is all I have to say on that matter.

posted by caillon 03-Aug-2004 at 20:50 -05:00 | permalink

GTK+ file chooser supplementary patch attached

I attached my file chooser supplmentary patch to the bug.

And right before that, shaver found someone to unbitrot my GTK+ stock icons patch and backport it to Firefox 1.0. Most excellent.

posted by caillon 03-Aug-2004 at 04:17 -05:00 | permalink

Slides Done

I just finished up my slides for my presentation portion of ACM Hypertext 2004's Mozilla turorial. I noticed that throwing together slides the day they are due is the suck.

I hope to get my batch of fixes for the GTK+ file chooser attached somewhere tonight.

posted by caillon 03-Aug-2004 at 04:16 -05:00 | permalink

First post

clee made me do it. Let's see how long this lasts.

posted by caillon 01-Aug-2004 at 23:43 -05:00 | permalink