The 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, 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 barNow that Thunderbird 3.1 is string/feature-frozen it’s time to focus on performance. This post is just to make sure that people who are also working on similar things know what I’m up to. For example, there’s some very exciting work going on involving adding a startup timeline to mozilla-central that everyone keeping up-to-date with mozilla [...]
Tagged GWT, SpeedTracer, systemtap—– js_GC data pages: 96731 total vm pages: 234849 ### KiB 11376 839 BF_format log4moz.j:487 15906 725 mime_emitter_writeBody jsmimeemitter.j:381 148 576 MimeMessage_coerceBodyToPlaintext mimemsg.j:341 4460 492 gloda_ds_queryFromQuery datastore.j:2988 9655 387 <MYSTERIOUS> <BEYOND THE VEIL>:0 911 237 gloda_content_quoted connotent.j:267 1723 144 gloda_indexMessage index_msg.j:2597 187 141 gloda_content_content connotent.j:290 170 108 gloda_content_getContent connotent.j:166 1917 73 gloda_identity_toString datamodel.j:785 1775 69 [...]
Tagged systemtapFor the Thunderbird 3.1 release cycle we are not just fixing UX problems but also resolving various performance issues. The key to defeating performance problems, like the key to defeating bad guys in movies, is to make sure they are dead. If you want to fight the bad guy again, you can just assume that [...]
Tagged graphviz, grokexplain, performance, sqlite, systemtapUsing the accumulated data in my CouchDB instance about the Firefox tinderbox and Protovis, we can see how long it takes before a testfailed/busted build gets starred and who stars it. The horizontal axis is the number of minutes between the end of the build and when it gets starred. If someone stars the build [...]
Tagged CouchDB, protovis, tinderbox==================== ms # —– Event Loop: nsInputStreamReadyEvent 7119 11 —– Input Events: nsInputStreamPump 7119 11 —– Pump Events: thunk:nsNNTPProtocol::QueryInterface(…) 7119 11 ==================== ms # —– Event Loop: nsInputStreamReadyEvent 6284 15 nsTimerEvent 242 123 —– Timers: nsUITimerCallback 121 2 —– Input Events: nsInputStreamPump 6284 15 —– Pump Events: thunk:nsNNTPProtocol::QueryInterface(…) 6283 15 As of late, I’ve noticed [...]
Tagged systemtap, utraceThanks to the efforts of Makoto Kato (jp-blog en-blog twitter) whom you may remember as the bringer of CJK bi-gram tokenization, I have just pushed tokenizer support for case-folding, accent-folding, and voiced sound mark magic to comm-central. The net result is that searches for “ĝLȬdÅ” will now find “gloda” and vice versa. Less crazy searches [...]
Tagged gloda, sqlite, tokenizerWhat it does: Adds a “–couch-json” option to bsmedberg‘s pymake that takes a URL that crams the state of (global, non-rule associated) variables into a couch document for each makefile context executed. Variables are grouped by general origin as well as specific Makefile origin where relevant. The code as it stands only tells you about [...]
Tagged CouchDB, pymake