Mozilla

MozCamp Europe 2011

> EDIT: Okay… so I was just having a nice nose through my blog on someone else’s computer and noticed that this post was not published. Woops! So I here it is… all be it very late. My round-up of MozCamp Europe 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A little while ago I was

Mozilla

I got mentioned on Bonjour Mozilla!

Woop woop! This post realistically comes under the category Mozilla however anything under that category get sent off to planet.mozilla.org [http://planet.mozilla.org/] and I don’t want this on there as it would be pointless. Bonjour Mozilla! [http://bonjourmozilla.fr] is also aggregated there and so

Personal

Thinking of starting a blog in markdown…

[This is a cross-post from wduyck.calepin.co [http://wduyck.calepin.co/thinking-about-markdown.html] while I get my bearings on how to use/if I like calepin.co [http://calepin.co/].] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay… so I have been toying with this idea for a while since I noticed that Paul Rouget

Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival 2011

Okay… so it has been a while now since the Mozilla Festival and I regret that it has taken me so long to get to writing this post. However I am writing it now so let’s get this done. So what was the Mozilla Festival all about? It is

Personal

Life as a student

So it has now been about 4 and 1/2 weeks since I came to the University Of Kent [http://www.kent.ac.uk/], and it has been great so far. One thing that hasn’t though has been my responsiveness to people asking me how great it has been.

Mozilla

RE: How I got involved with Mozilla (and why that wouldn’t work today)

Okay, Mr David Boswell, It was roughly 7 years ago when I got involved with Mozilla (yup, been doing Mozilla stuff almost half my life). I started out on a mission to do well at a piece of homework all about making websites. So I did a LOT of research

Mozilla

TinkerSoc Presentation [ReMo]

So last night was one of my weekly meetings at the Tinker Society [http://tinkersoc.org/] here are the University Of Kent. The Tinker Society is: > “…for people who love to share their creativity with like-minded people, and collaborate in designs and projects that are, simply, awesome. Having people from

Steve Jobs (1995 - 2011)

My best wishes to his friends and family… no matter what your opinion on tech, he made one hell of a positive impact on the world we live in today. > “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma

Mozilla Festival

Media, Freedom And The Web

Got a friend in journalism or media? Are you a web developer or audio hacker? An artist, DJ, or Mashup Artist? A student looking to learn more about Media, Freedom and the Web? Well then I would recommend you take a look at attending the Mozilla Festival in London from

Personal

Don't you hate how things never go to plan?

Okay, so it turns out that this summer has not been as I had hoped… it has however given me a shiny new toy (well… actually I spent a lot of time choosing a tool that would work best for university but it does other cools stuff too!), as well

Personal

Hello world! (Back from exams :)

Okay so it has been more than a little while since my last post and almost as long since my last Mozilla activity. So this is just a quick little post to say. Hello world! I am still very much alive! Exams went well I think… will find out on

Mozilla

Firefox 4 Launch Party London: Start to Finish

So on Thursday 21st April 2011 we here in the United Kingdom were graced with a wonderful party in our (well England’s) capitol, London. However the party started well before… in fact it started weeks before, with the creation of the Firefox 4 Launch Team, the launch of Firefox

Mozilla

London Launch Party: Highlights

So last night was the Firefox 4 launch party in London… it was a great day although very busy behind the scenes we still all had a lot of fun. So here are some of the best bits as well as the video from my presentation which I was unable

Mozilla

Firefox 4 Launch Party: London #londonfx4

UPDATE: We are now sold out! All 100 spaces have been filled! Apply for a ticket though and hope someone has a last minute commitment they have to attend instead. > Do you use the browser that is Mozilla Firefox? Do you want to experience the web in a whole new

Mozilla

Firefox 4, not just another version number!

So it has been a long time coming, however I am sure that once you have experienced the awesome that the Mozilla developers have produced you will agree… this is one download worth getting! We have come a long way since I started using Mozilla products. Way back in 2005

Random

Tweet Roulette

Okay so what is this “Tweet Roulette” I spoke of earlier this morning? Well… it is what I call it when I have too many tweets (around 200+) sat on tweetdeck on my nexus one, and I flick the screen to mark them as read while they fly by. Well…

Mozilla

Help for Open Source Stand at UK Guardian's Public Procurement Show June 14/15

> This is a guest post from, well… I will let him introduce himself. But I have spoken to him recently about an upcoming event in June. It looks like it will be a big event in the region of 5000+ attendees some of which are the big decision makers in

Mozilla

Mozilla: Web Applications

So its out! Well… it is out in the form of documentation, specifications, and new APIs. Oh and there are of course some demo apps [https://apps.mozillalabs.com/appdir/] too! The whole thing works and not only does it work it works in both Firefox [https://apps.mozillalabs.com/

Affero

Affero Management UI

Okay so a day or two ago I shared with you a screenshot of the working UI behind Affero management. Well now as this section of the project is near complete here is a collection of shots showing the improved version 😄 Any how… I need to give my brain a

Affero

Coming Along Nicely

Okay so the back end work on Affero is near complete now. Things are looking good and I think I am going to complete on schedule. So for those who want a peak at the back end of Affero and don’t have a local copy running, here is the

Random

I want my froyo back!

Okay so today I got my gingerbread update for my nexus one, and already there is one thing that I really don’t like… the black and green combination. I prefer light airy themes for almost everything. And my phone is no exception. I loved the plastic look of Froyo!

Personal

Post Titles Are Hard....!

Okay so today has been the first day back to blogging and normal life. I am well (for the most part) and I have had a relatively interesting day… one thing I can say is that driving is a lot easier and at the same time harder than I first

Affero

Hierarchy + Entity-Relationship

Okay so it has been a while since my last post on this blog full stop (my last serious blog post), so lets have some good old updating on Affero. ChangeLog * The user management system is now complete, however may need a few tweaks along the way * Completed user invite

Affero

Affero Hardware Spec + ChangeLog

Okay so today’s Affero update is in need of some love from you… this hardware spec is an odd one as there is no real hardware requirement for the most part so here is what I have, if you have any other ideas please tell me in the comments

Random

I’m a teapot! NOT a coffee pot!

Okay so yesterday while looking up some http status codes for use in Affero [http://blog.wduyck.me/tag/affero/] I found HTTP/1.0 418 I’m a teapot. This has made wonder, what would the world be like if HTCPCP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_