Posts from 2009

Earlier today, I tried to write a Selenium testcase to help ensure that bug 504188 never happens again; the bug… Continue reading

I’ve promised this for a while, and it’s finally here: I’ve started to write Litmus testcases for SUMO (support.mozilla.com). The… Continue reading

It’s time to start blogging about all the cool things that i find on the web and how my job is affected.  For this first post, i’ve made a 5 part video clip on how Mozilla QA works and the different tools we use. It was originally recorded for a web 101 class at the […] Continue reading

It’s been a while since I’ve updated here, but I’d like to take the opportunity now to announce the first ever release of the Student Assignment, Scheduling, and Homework Assistant. SASHA 0.1.0-RC1 was released a few weeks ago for testing purposes, before 0.1.0 final is released. Here is the official announcement: This marks the first […] Continue reading

Towards the end of helping Iranians get access to the Internet, I want to link to some resources, both specific and general. Here are two ways to set up proxies (one for Windows, one for OS X): How to setup a proxy for Iran citizens (for Windows!) How To Set Up An Anonymous Proxy For […] Continue reading

Well, my last post was a bust for any response. It was syndicated to Planet Mozilla, has had a few hundred views, and the only comment on it is my own (posting what a friend of mine on Facebook said). He said: “I don’t know if Tor is the end-all-be-all, but the basic point would […] Continue reading

Watching the twitterstorm around the current situation with the Iranian elections has been fairly thought provoking. The Iranian protesters are completely shut out of the official media in the form of newspapers, radio, and television in Iran. These are under the thumb of the state at the service of a man that may (or may […] Continue reading

I’m a huge Mythbusters fan (much to my wife’s tired acceptance). Co-host Adam Savage spoke at Maker Faire the other week. The topic of his discussion is failure and it is a pretty interesting speech by him (if you find him interesting at all). I’m sorry that I missed seeing him live but this is […] Continue reading

Noisebridge in San Francisco has been doing a regular event in the hackerspace of a night of five minute presentations called, “Five Minutes of Fame.” For the last set, we actually recorded the presentations and have put them up on YouTube on the Noisebridge Channel. I encourage people to go take a look at them […] Continue reading

My friend, Chris Wilson, posted on his blog today that he is leaving the IE team in order to focus on the “open web platform.” He’ll be doing this from the Developer Division at Microsoft and in his role as the chair of the HTML Working Group at the W3C (according to Chris):

Luckily, I found […] Continue reading