The deuxdrop messaging experiment‘s current incarnation exists as an (under development) Jetpack that runs in Firefox. I am still trying to shake out functionality to be driven by the UI rather than headless unit tests. While firebug has been a great help, another boon has been the logging framework and log viewing framework developed for [...]
Tagged arbpl, deuxdrop, loggestMy last blog post covered the fancy pants logging being used for the deuxdrop project. To summarize: we have loggers they are organized by ownership hierarchy they provide sufficient metadata that we can reconstruct the loggers that were talking to each other This can result in a lot of loggers. If you look at the [...]
Tagged arbpl, loggestArbitrary Pushlog (ArbPL) recap: It shows revision control pushes and the tinderbox build results for specific build trees like tinderboxpushlog (TBPL). It is backed by a server which has a database so your browser is not going to launch a DOS attack on the mozilla infrastructure. On the other hand, if that server falls over… [...]
Tagged arbpl, tbplAs I mentioned in my teaser on rich thunderbird mozmill logs, in order to get the build logs and provide failure clustering you already have to do most of the stuff tinderboxpushlog does. One of the key things is summarizing the builds in a way that is useful, where the definition of “useful” probably varies [...]
Tagged arbplSometimes Thunderbird mozmill unit tests fail. When they do, it’s frequently a mystery. My logsploder work helped reduce the mystery for my local mozmill test runs, but did nothing for tinderbox runs or developers without tool fever. Thanks to recent renewed activity on the Thunderbird front-end, this has become more of a problem and so [...]
Tagged arbpl, logging, logsploder, mozmill, node.jsI’ve hooked up jstut’s (formerly narscribblus‘) narcissus-based parser and jsctags-based abstract interpreter up to the ajax.org code editor (ace, to be the basis for skywriter, the renamed and somewhat rewritten bespin). Ace’s built-in syntax highlighters are based on the somewhat traditional regex-based state machine pattern and have no deep understanding of JS. The tokenizers have [...]
Tagged ace, bespin, jstut, narcissus, narscribblus, skywriterI got my first modern Android phone at the end of last week and I figured it would be a good idea to get over the activation energy hump so it’s easy to do incremental mozilla hacking on it. Thanks to a lot of work by other people, this turned out to be pretty easy. [...]
Tagged android, phonegap, weave, wmsyThe Problem One of my focuses at MoMo is to improve the plight of Thunderbird extension developers. An important aspect of this is improving the platform they are exposed to. Any platform usually entails a fair amount of complexity. The trick is that you only pay for the things that are new-to-you, learning-wise. The ‘web’ [...]
Tagged doccelerator, docs, documentation, jstut, narscribblusHTML and CSS provide awesome layout potential, but harnessing that potential to do your bidding can sometimes be problematic. I suspect all people who have written HTML documents have been in a situation where they have randomly permuted the document structure and CSS of something that should work in the hopes of evolving it into [...]
Tagged jetpack, layoutThe previously discussed Quick Filter Bar interface landed in time for Thunderbird (Lanikai) 3.1 beta 2 (whose release is real-soon-now). Although the Quick Filter Bar already contains dangerously high levels of awesome, we made sure to make it extensible so you can cram even more awesome in. As an example, I have created an extension [...]
Tagged extensions, jetpack, quick filter bar