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afk Dec 23-Jan 2

robcee — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:40:31 +0000

Just a note that I’ll be generally offline or away from the computers for the duration of the holidays. I’ll still check email and may even do a little coding for fun but IRC response may be sluggish, delayed and possibly drunk.

Happy Holidays everybody!

PS, to all my bearded brothers and sisters out there. Good work on the NSID. Peace.

Fear and Loathing in Whistler

robcee — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:01:17 +0000

Day 4. It’s another gloomy day out there. I was awakened by the sound of a generator outside my window and an ill-sounding alarm buzzer coming from the room safe as the power drained out of it, locking my documents inside. There’s no power in the room. The hotel is running on emergency power after a truck drove into a transformer outside, knocking us back to the 1800’s. Fortunately, this Edwardian mountain resort still has the internet — at least for another 10 hours, anyway.

Despite all the catastrophes and confusion, the summit’s been a great success. We spent yesterday afternoon locked up with various platform guys talking about how to improve Firebug and getting the scoop from John Barton on the state of things. For those still in Whistler, I believe we’re still planning on having a talk this afternoon at 2:15 in Alpine C. Assuming the wolves haven’t taken over by then. You’ll see the wolves soon enough.

The Correct Term is “Firebuggist”

robcee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:53 +0000

After the Firefox 3 Release Week excitement, I kind of zoned-out for a bit and forgot about my blog. In an attempt to re-invigorate it, I’ve updated the theme to something a little less “newspapery” and should be able to get it looking a bit better than it did out of the box. It’s a work in progress and some things still don’t look quite right, but I have Firebug to help me fiddle with the CSS and layout. Nixing all instances of “Arial” was a good place to start. Also, while I’m rambling on about my blog, I should mention that WordPress 2.6 is out and if you’re using that platform, you should really update. Trust me, it’s nice.

Speaking of Firebug, it looks like I’ll have plenty of opportunity to play with it now as I’m going to be helping out with that project full-time. I’m really excited to be working on development tools again and already have a few ideas for features or extensions. (Internet-famous) John Resig posted a great article a couple of weeks ago and I’m looking forward to working with him, Jan Odvarko and the Firebug team to make it the awesomest, standards-based web-development tool in the universe. I’m hoping to write another post in a few days about some of those ideas. In the meantime, I have a couple of little patches to finish up before completing the move.

From an organizational perspective, this means I’ll be moving into the Evangelism Team with Mike Shaver and friends. I’ll still be helping field questions about the unittest infrastructure if they come up, but inquiries and bug reports should go to John O’Duinn and his team of Excellent Release Engineers.

Thanks to everyone for making this shift possible and to everyone who sent congratulatory notes. Everyone is Awesome!