http://shaver.off.net/diary noise from signal Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:01:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Deb's excellent post about Firefox 3's bookmarking system hit Digg today, on our shared server, which reminded me that I needed to install some WordPress caching software. No sweat; wp-super-cache, I thank you. http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/04/23/its-full-of-bits/ There's a great writeup over on Matasano (home of many a great writeup) about how a supergenius hacker was able to exploit a NULL pointer coming out of malloc failure to run arbitrary code in Flash. This is interesting to Mozilla in part because a lot of our users ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/04/16/failure-is-not-an-option/ Only a few weeks after Claire made it abundantly clear that she was interested in being more than a spectator when it came to solid food, we finally went out today and purchased a highchair in which to begin the grand experiment. We actually ended up using a Bumbo ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/04/13/thisll-be-fun/ blizzard + polvi = me. Who's next? http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/04/03/blizzard-polvi-shaver/ Ten years ago today I was fortunate enough to participate in a tremendous event: the release of the Netscape Communicator source code as the first Mozilla source drop. Mitchell has posted a great summary of the past ten years, and I'm sure there will be many tales of woe ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/31/ten/ People keep asking me to blog this, so I shall. It's really exactly what Alton Brown would tell you. Needed: Meat, such as rib roast or lamb leg Roasting pan Probe thermometer with temperature-based alarm Kosher salt, black pepper (you can add more spices, obv.) Just ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/29/meat/ Ian Hickson released his Acid 3 test a little while ago, and though there have been a couple of changes recently, it's pretty much settled down in its final form. There's been a lot of discussion of how different browsers do on the test, and it's clear that some ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/27/the-missed-opportunity-of-acid-3/ Stuart put up a great post today describing the results of our intensive focus on memory use in Firefox 3 (and followed up, after many requests from commenters on his blog and elsewhere, with a graph including Safari and Opera). The memory gains are great, and they cover all ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/12/year-of-the-gecko/ Taras-and-company's ridiculous progress continues apace, in pursuit of tools to let us master -- rather than be mastered by -- the scale and...uniqueness of our codebase. One great milestone is the addition of build-time static checking to the mozilla2 build process. If the enforcement opportunities presented by static-checking.js ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/08/thats-when-i-shoot-the-water-cannon/ There's going to be a lot of talk this week coming out of MIX, about IE8. Early reports are interesting, if still often hidden behind "NOT PUBLISHED" links on MSDN, but the most interesting thing I've seen yet is their change in IE8 rendering mode default. The specific ... http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/03/05/credit-where-its-due/