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Adventures in processing with prender
First, I’m overdue in announcing Transit to Go a.k.a. “the iPhone transit map that’s demonstrably more useful than a paper schedule” a.k.a. “your bus departure in 15 seconds or less, no matter where...
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Oh glorious day, the Nexus One is now available for purchase in Canada! I’ve been feeling less and less enthusiastic about the iPhone lately, in particular after the ridiculous lawsuit against HTC....
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Oh, the lines! And some help for Edmonton.
A productive day on the transit development front. Finished up a few big features related to hbus.ca and Transit to Go: Sped up the graph and database generation by an order of magnitude. Not too...
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Back to WordPerfect: libwpd 0.9.0
Those who’ve known me for a while have probably heard about my first major open source project, libwpd. In a nutshell, it’s a parser for WordPerfect documents with the primary aim of converting them...
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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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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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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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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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