Category Archives: Flock

democamp Victoria

The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).

Zbigniew Braniecki joins Mozilla Corp!

My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla Central/Eastern European communities and raise the awareness of what’s going there in Mozilla project. [...]

When Knowledge Disappears

The other day, I went to reread an amazing article Eli Goldberg wrote on “Verifying a bug” written when we were both working at Flock. I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer website” and I couldn’t find that article.

WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people aren’t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be vitally important because it’s the person who interacts with our customers most and makes the [...]

Google thinks I hate them!

The other day I was trying to figure out a problem I was having with Google’s awesome Gmail, and whether to let Google know about their problem, when I remembered that Google thinks I (and Flock) hate them.
I actually own a Google shirt and enjoy wearing it. I admire the people of Google.

Code Rush!

I met up with friend, former colleague, and current Flocker Richard Phan to watch the hour documentary Code Rush last night.

Mercurial No More

“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”

Mark Towfiq leaves Flock

Mark Towfiq, Flock Vice President of Engineering and Product Development, departure was “announced” today after 1.5 years leading Flock browser development.
With any personnel change in a senior role of a small company, you can expect some change in the direction and execution. Mark had the most important job at Flock, so I expect [...]

Flock, the Awkward Child of Open Source

Flock continues to go it alone. My greatest concerns for Flock nine months ago are just as relevant today.

More Sublimation, in the Flock Sense of the Term

This last week has seen two of Flock’s ever so talented developers quit, Jesse Andews and Raj Paul.

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