As prognosticated earlier, the next release of Bespin (named “Chuck Finley”) schlepped out the door this week. One half maintenance release and the other half feature release, Chuck Finley adds a “deploy” command and support for SVN commands while fixing various glitches with the once-shiny-now-lusterless “H. E. Pennypacker” release we put out in late August. […]
Bespin 0.4.2: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Bicyclist
Today we shipped the next release of Bespin: the 0.4.2 “H. E. Pennypacker” release. As discussed in my recent “Bespin Roadmap” blog post, H. E. Pennypacker is primarily a bug fix release focused specifically on issues related to the new collaboration engine. The key fixes in this release include: Work towards ensuring that we never […]
Bespin Roadmap
With the recent release of Bespin 0.4 “Stratospheric Stratus” last week and 0.4.1 “Fletch F. Fletch”* on Monday, it’s a good time to post an update on the Bespin roadmap. 0.4.2 “H. E. Pennypacker” – August 26th Minor release that aims to whack any major bugs reported in the collaboration engine; if we have resources […]
Multiple Bespin Servers?
Michael Mahemoff recently wondered about whether Bespin will ever have more than one back-end. That’s a good question! We’ve waffled a bit ourselves on the back-end bit. The initial back-end was Java, but we migrated to Python. Michael pointed out that we’d need to solidify and publish the API for alternate back-ends to be viable. […]
Collaborating with Bespin
We just launched collaboration in Bespin today; it’s come a long way since the initial prototype we had working earlier this year. That progress is due primarily to the hard work of our own Joe Walker and Google’s Neil Fraser, the latter of which created Mobwrite, an editor-neutral diff-and-paste collaboration engine that Joe integrated into […]
Update on the Tools Directory and the Open Web
Several weeks ago, I blogged about the Open Web Tools Directory, another Mozilla Labs experiment we launched to explore making some sense of the huge and diverse web tools ecosystem. Thanks for taking a look at the site, for telling us about your favorite tools and your own projects, and for all the feedback! We’ve […]
Open Web Tools Directory
Just published a couple of blog posts earlier this week announcing the release of another project we’ve been kicking around here in Mozilla’s Developer Tools lab: a directory of the universe of tools to help web developers. The Ajaxian post goes into some detail on the technology behind it. Like Bespin, the directory uses HTML […]
Return to Dark Castle
I’ve a lot of fond memories from my youth that revolve around the Mac: getting invited over to a girl’s house in the second grade… to play Dark Castle on an early-model Mac; retrofitting my 3rd grade teacher’s Lisa to be Mac-compatible; getting pulled out of classes later on in elementary school to help the […]
Craftmanship in Software
I find in Google’s search engine significant irony. Let me explain. Have you considered how they can possibly index so much of the web so often and make it available coherently to the entire world and deliver individual results quickly and consistently? The Google engineering team deserves our immense respect for such an accomplishment. It […]
Apple Strikes Back: iPhone Fail
Clearly Apple’s PR Skynet saw my recent whining about the MacBook Pro and engage in virtual retribution, because now my iPhone is failing. I used Apple’s excellent data migraiton program to copy my data from my old MacBook Pro to the new one. After the transfer, the first time I tried to sync with iTunes […]
Ben Galbraith 