Year In Industry The Year in Industry Begins So in just a few short days I start my Year-In-Industry. This fancy thing is basically a glorified internship, with one major advantage. It counts towards my degree! Even better my placement is with an organisation I've been volunteering for since I was 13. There are some disadvantages though... well
Personal Taking a step back So it turns out, that as ever, I might have bitten off a little more than I can chew. Therefore over the next week or two I am going to be taking a step back from everything, Mozilla, Societies, Personal Projects, etc… and working only on a select few tasks
Mozilla Festival Mozilla Festival... not enough words to describe the aweome! [http://www.mozillafestival.org/] Its been one of the busiest weekends of my life, and many other people’s too, but I wouldn’t trade it for a thing in the world. The Mozilla Festival, for those who have been living under rocks for the last few weeks, is an
Mozilla A Firefox T-shirt on Google Streetview This is a guest post by fellow Mozillian Otto de Voogd [http://7is7.com/]. > Moments ago a Google Street View car passed, filmed me wearing a Firefox T-Shirt... Exact location: http://ottodv.com/fxsw — Otto de Voogd (@ottodv) June 25, 2011 [https://twitter.com/ottodv/status/84573401934610432] [http://goo.gl/
Mozilla Mozilla London Learning Jam [https://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverquinlan/] cc-by-nc Oliver Quinlan So last week was the Mozilla Learning Lab in London. I was unfortunately unable to attend the first day of the event (Thursday 24th May) due to having an afternoon exam that day. However I travelled up that evening and took
Mozilla BarCamp Canterbury 2 > BarCamp Canterbury is an unconference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference] that is a completely free to attend and based loosely around the theme of:innovative, unusual, and amusing examples of information and technology. A technology conference with a difference: more like a gathering of enthusiastic people that are into
Mozilla More Mozilla UK work Okay… so I am happy with the Analysis section of document I have been writing and so will transfer that to a wiki page in the next few hours, I am now moving on the development. This is where I am going to be talking entirely about my proposed system.
Mozilla Mozilla UK revamp updates [mozilla.org.uk] Proposed vertical version of Mozilla UK logo Okay… so it appears that even though this revamp is still in the early stages there is a reasonable amount of interest in the project. So I thought I would make it easy for those of you who are interested
Mozilla Mozilla UK meetup and mozilla.org.uk revamp Okay so this post is actually two rolled into one. I decided it would not be worth doing them separately as there is just way to much cross over. Mozilla UK meetup Not long ago, about a week ago in fact, was the second Mozilla UK meetup that I have
Mozilla The problem with filtering off posts. Okay… so here is my two cents to the discussion happening on what content should be on planet.mozilla.org. It is a simple little thing however it is a problem as I see it, and that is this. I currently, as I know others do, rather enjoy reading the
Mozilla The Two Things about Mozilla I recently learned about The Two Things [http://www.csun.edu/%7Edgw61315/thetwothings.html] question from William Reynolds [http://dailycavalier.com/2012/02/the-two-things-about-mozilla/] and wanted to respond with what I’ve learned about the Mozilla Community. > For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to
Mozilla The Free and Open Source Software Developer's European Meeting '12 Okay, so at the time of writing this it has now been more than a few weeks since I finally left FOSDEM, and I am ashamed to say that it has taken me this long to get round to blogging about it properly. I have some notes for the post
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
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
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
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 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
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/