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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...

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Eideticker 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...

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Eideticker 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...

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Playing 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...

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Mass 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...

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Eideticker 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...

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First 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...

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PyCon 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...

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mozregression: 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...

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Perfherder 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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