Tuesday, November 26, 2013

No more main-thread OpenGL in Firefox (important note for Linux users who use OpenGL)

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Main-thread compositing with OpenGL is no more (bug 924403). The only option for OpenGL compositing is off-main-thread compositing (OMTC). ...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Iterative Development

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Modern software engineering 'theory' is all about iterative. Each new development seems to be more iterative than the last (contras...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Paris work week

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I just returned from another work week, this time in Paris. Coming after the summit and some personal travel it has been a particularly exh...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Syntax IS important

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In the domains of programming language theory and design I often see it stated that 'syntax is not important'. Syntax is believed t...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Summit 2013

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Last weekend was the Mozilla summit. I attended the Toronto event. It was awesome. Also: exhausting, fun, informative, interesting, inspiri...
Monday, September 09, 2013

A real-life Heisenbug

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I spent three or four days debugging (a while ago now, this blog post has been aging for longer than expected in my blog cellar) an interes...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

An ode to Sublime Text

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I use Sublime Text as my editor for about 80% of the work I do (sometimes on Windows I use Visual Studio because I use it for debugging and...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Things I like vs things that make me work better.

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One thing about working remotely is you get more opportunity to customise your work environment. This has taught me that things that I like...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Integrating Mercurial queues and Dropbox

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We use Mercurial to manage the Mozilla source tree . Locally I use the Mercurial Queues (mq) extension to manage my patch queue. Mq keeps a...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Trychooser hg plugin

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If anyone is building their own hg from the current source and uses the trychooser extension ( https://github.com/pbiggar/trychooser ), you...
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