A better BIXI web site
There’s much to like about the BIXI bike-sharing system in Montréal: it’s affordable ($78 for a year of biking), accessible and fun to use. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that it’s made cycling...
View ArticleEideticker update
Since I last blogged about Eideticker, I’ve made some good progress. Here’s some highlights: Eideticker has a new, much simpler harness and tests are much easier to write. Initially, I was using Talos...
View ArticleEideticker areas to explore
So I got some nice feedback on my Eideticker post yesterday on various channels. It seems like some people are interested in hacking on the analysis portion, so I thought I’d give some quick pointers...
View ArticlePlaying with pandas
For the last few days I’ve been experimenting with getting a Pandaboard running Android 4.0, continuing the work that Clint Talbert started in the fall to get these boards for use as a replacement for...
View ArticleMass code relicensing with facebook’s codemod
Recently the Firefox source repository (mozilla-central) was converted over recently to a new license with a lovely short boilerplate. This is great, but here in automation and tools, we have a fairly...
View ArticleEideticker for FirefoxOS
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Here’s a long overdue update on where we’re at with Eideticker for FirefoxOS. While we’ve had a good amount of...
View ArticleFirst Eideticker Responsiveness Tests
[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Time for another update on Eideticker. In the last quarter, I’ve been working on two main items: Responsiveness...
View ArticlePyCon 2014 impressions: ipython notebook is the future & more
This year’s PyCon US (Python Conference) was in my city of residence (Montréal) so I took the opportunity to go and see what was up in the world of the language I use the most at Mozilla. It was pretty...
View Articlemozregression: New maintainer, issues tracked in bugzilla
Just wanted to give some quick updates on mozregression, your favorite regression-finding tool for Firefox: I moved all issue tracking in mozregression to bugzilla from github issues. Github...
View ArticlePerfherder update: Summary series drilldown
Just wanted to give another quick Perfherder update. Since the last time, I’ve added summary series (which is what GraphServer shows you), so we now have (in theory) the best of both worlds when it...
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