Whoa. It seems to me only a few weeks have passed since I previously posted on my blog back during those first few crazy days at Palm when I jumped onto the moving train; somehow, it also feels like ten years ago. Being a part of the Palm story has been a whirlwind adventure. And […]
Thoughts on Palm and Jamie Zawinski
There’s no better way to start our careers at Palm than by getting reamed by open-source pioneer and legend Jamie Zawinski, one of the driving forces behind the release of the Mozilla source code and someone we’ve talked about in recent months in another context. While a blog post isn’t the right avenue to talk […]
Going to Palm with Dion
Do you remember how much the Web used to suck? Not so long ago, we Web developers would have to constantly educate product managers and other business stakeholders about the limitations of HTML; we would often contrast it with so-called “rich client” technologies. Over the past few years, we’ve all watched with wonder as these […]
Bespin 0.4.3: This is Chuck Finley
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 […]
Ben Galbraith 