Tag Archives: Flock

Google Chrome’s Greatest Challenge? Open Source Development and Support of a Consumer Desktop Product

I’ve seen a lot of fantastic articles about what Google’s beta web browser Chrome is and isn’t, will and won’t be.
My good friend Chris Messina wrote a very interesting article, which in many ways comes down to a large, influential part of the web development community being disenfranchised from Mozilla.
Doom! Of course John Lilly is [...]

Firefox 3: the Best Window to the Web!

Firefox 3 was released this week, download it and have a better web browsing experience while supporting open and innovation software development!
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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. [...]

Senior QA Engineer Jacky Zhang now with Genologics

I had lunch with the very talented and personably Jacky Zhang today. It was nice catching up with him after many, many months since we have had a good face to face chat. Earlier this month Jacky left Flock and is now working for Victoria’s Genologics.
Although, having an amazing experience with Flock this position with [...]

Dollars, Forex, Stocks, Gambling

The US dollar is down again since yesterday relative to the Canadian dollar. I hope this is a temporary pause before it continues its “correction” from the painful-for-me long time lows. I don’t know why I let myself continue to be surprised that investing is just a more sophisticated and dignified form of gambling.
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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 I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer website” and I couldn’t find that article.
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New flockstars!

Another 1007 Flockstars
October 16th, 2005

At 12:54 AM PST, the first 1007 people from the Flock “announcements” mailing list received an email from Bart Decrem inviting them to join the original Flockstars in trying the The Flock Developer Preview … Preview
Since the private release (v0.4.6 (0.5pre)) a few days ago to 282 friends of [...]

Flockstars have received the Flock Browser!

Oct 14, 2005 11:29 AM Bart Decrem sent an email to the 282 Flockstars. The first part of the email was:
The Flock Developer Preview … Preview is here
October 14th, 2005
Ni hao, fellow flockstars,Thanks for all the feedback you’ve given us on Flock 0.2. We’re pleased to invite you to try out the latest [...]

The value of a breakfast out & mypce

Today is a big day. Today Julia’s dear friends Nadia and Andrew are getting married. (Tomorrow, I fly out to San Fran for five weeks).
On a busy day like this, who wants to worry about making breakfast
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