dealing with the .NET ClickOnce add-on
As a number of people have reported, a recent update to Microsoft’s .NET Framework resulted in an add-on being installed into Firefox. Shortly after this patch was released through Windows Update, we...
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(Is it really true that I only blog what’s too long to tweet now? Need to think about what that means, but I’m already not sure I like it.) From John, emphasis mine: The reason we have a vibrant, open...
View Articlethoughts on chrome frame
Last week, Google announced Chrome Frame — a plugin for running their Chrome browser inside Internet Explorer. Early response from web developers has been predictably positive: they’ve been suffering...
View Article.NET Framework Assistant blocked to disarm security vulnerability
I’ve previously posted about the .NET Framework Assistant add-on that was delivered via Windows Update earlier this year. It’s recently surfaced that it has a serious security vulnerability, and...
View Articleupdate: .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce support) unblocked
We received confirmation from Microsoft this evening that the Framework Assistant add-on is not a mechanism for exploiting the vulnerabilities detailed in the earlier post, so we’ve removed it from the...
View Articleupdate on the .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation...
There’s a fair bit of confusion circulating about what happened, and what’s going to happen next, which is understandable — it’s been confusing! I’ll summarize here what happened, and what’s next....
View Articleupdating the update, as it were
I made an update to my WPF timeline post, but I wanted to make sure that the correction was seen by people who may not revisit that post. The SRD blog post which revealed that Firefox users were also...
View Articlefive by five, in the pipe
A little more than eighteen-hundred days ago, I and many others held our breath as the much-anticipated Firefox 1.0 was released to the world. A million downloads in the first week pushed our server...
View ArticleHTML5 video and codecs
Recently, Vimeo and YouTube announced that they were moving to support the HTML5 video tag, as DailyMotion did last summer. This is an important step in making video a first-class citizen of the...
View Articlebecause no respectable MBA programme would admit me
I read (and talk) a lot about various “management topics”. I’ve been doing this since long before I managed anything more significant than my own clothing choices, because part of my brain was swollen...
View Articlefree as in smokescreen
The web is full of headlines today like this one from MacRumors: “MPEG LA Declares H.264 Standard Permanently Royalty-Free”. It would be great if they were accurate, but unfortunately they very much...
View Articleout of service
I suffer from depression, and some related issues like anxiety. I was first treated for it in high school, though my condition predates that treatment by some unknown amount. Since that time, I’ve had...
View Articleanother step forward for open video on the web
Today, Google announced that it is joining Mozilla and Opera in exclusively supporting open video codecs — to wit, WebM and Theora — in their Chrome browser. It’s a great move, and one we at Mozilla...
View Articlemaking progress
[I wrote most of this a little while ago, and then remembered/found it yesterday, so the timeline is a little weird.] Several weeks ago, I stopped working because, put simply, I was not able to work....
View ArticleCUSEC books
A quickie to list the books I plugged at the CUSEC conference: Making Things Happen Getting to Yes Negotiation Genius Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) Making Software
View Articleor bpd2 to its friends
For almost 20 years I thought I “just” had depression: monopolar, occasional major episodes. I was well-known in my circle of friends for crying at weddings and in movies. (There is video of my...
View Articlehey web-talker, talk web to me
Mozilla is hiring a technical evangelist to help the world get the most out of the web. It’s a position with a scope as broad as the web itself, bringing Mozilla’s keen sense of the web to people...
View Articleengines half, straight ahead
As I mentioned in my overlong post about my bipolar disorder, the treatment plan informed by my new diagnosis is working quite well. Well enough, in fact, that I was able to give a short talk at the...
View ArticleI made a thing
A while ago I made a prototype of a simple, high-performance keyword search for bugzilla, using python and Redis. It was pretty promising, able to do all/any queries against the summaries of all open...
View Articleback in a new saddle
I started back at work at the beginning of last week, after more than 4 months of illness. It is very exciting for me. I was like a kid before Christmas the night before my first day back. I am rarely...
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