http://ed.agadak.net (rhymes with jubilee) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:46:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems that Mercurial and Mozilla have quite different patch/review process, but then again they're two very different projects. I just found out today that Bug 394650 - Make line numbers linkable when viewing files/annotate for hg.mozilla.org [bugzilla.mozilla.org] was "works for me." I was confused for a little bit; but ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/04/a-different-development-process I've been busy preparing for a conference talk, so I didn't get around to reporting AwesomeBar improvements for Beta 5 sooner. (But for those curious, I presented Branch-on-Random [pdf, uiuc.edu] at CGO 2008 [cgo.org] (Code Generation and Optimization). Basically, it's an instruction that's really cheap to implement and allows for ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/04/awesomeness-in-beta-5 Requiring unit tests for code review isn't the greatest motivation for people to write unit tests. Sure, it tries to make sure unit tests are written, but it doesn't give the reason to write them. In general, I like to ask "why?" to figure out why things are done, why they ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/why-you-should-write-unit-tests Perhaps being stressed out and tired and after having some drinks isn't the best time to write blog posts, but this is something I've been thinking about over the last few days. And I suppose in other conditions, I definitely wouldn't be as open about this as I probably will ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/why-i-worked-on-firefox How are people using the AwesomeBar in Firefox 3 Beta 4 [mozilla.com]? (Please comment. [ed.agadak.net]) There have been a lot of positive comments already: searching for multiple words like the domain plus title, adaptive learning that immediately brings previously selected results to the top. But there are a few that say the ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/using-the-awesomebar It's been exactly four months since I first wrote about the AwesomeBar [ed.agadak.net], and how it would become awesome with adaptive learning, which makes Firefox give you the pages that you want with just a single letter typed in the location bar. Firefox 3 Beta 4 will have this feature. :D ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/beyond-awesome Now that the bug to show days, hours, minutes, seconds for download times [bugzilla.mozilla.org] has landed, there's some new neat things to use to help support localization of plural strings [ed.agadak.net] as well as making download progress texts consistent. PluralForm for Developers To get the correct plural form of a word in ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/01/plurals-downloads-statuses-for-yous For the work on the AwesomeBar [ed.agadak.net], I've noted before that getting relevant results [ed.agadak.net] in the location bar to select is important before the adaptive behavior is useful. A friend of mine pointed out that if he knew multiple words in the title, typing both resulted in no results instead ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/01/another-way-to-awesome It's been over two months since I first posted about the AwesomeBar [ed.agadak.net], and some of you have been able experience the power of the learning behavior. Frequently visited sites are easily accessed with just a single letter. These "automatic bookmarks" bubble up to the top of the location bar ... http://ed.agadak.net/2008/01/not-just-awesome I've been working on a bug to better display the download time remaining [bugzilla.mozilla.org] because right now it only shows either seconds or minutes. Not too useful for really long downloads (but friendlier than the hh:mm:ss of Firefox 2). It's gone from 1) the current seconds/minutes display to 2) displaying fractional ... http://ed.agadak.net/2007/12/one-potato-two-potato-three-potato-four