July 2010
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Announcing the Bespin Plugin Gallery
The past couple months at Mozilla I’ve been plugging away (sorry for the pun) at the Bespin Plugin Gallery, and we’ve announced today that it’s officially live. Yay!
But wait, let’s back up a sec. First we need to talk about Bespin, because most of the people I talk to don’t know about this Mozilla-sponsored project.
Bespin is a code editor that you can embed...
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200,000 Icons in the Icon Rainbow
In the initial launch of Icon Rainbow, an icon color analyzer, we featured a small subset of 5,000 icons from the Apple iTunes store. But Crystal and I knew that Icon Rainbow couldn’t be considered a fully developed project until we had the icons for all of the iPhone apps in the iTunes app store. Well, it’s official - the Icon Rainbow now features the icons for all 200,000 apps in the iTunes...
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Creating Convenience when following Pollan's Food...
For the month of June, I made a number of commitments to myself, including following the guidelines laid out by Michael Pollan in his book Food Rules. Following these rules wasn’t terribly difficult, as I already practiced a number of guidelines laid out in the book. But where I got tripped up the most was on the days I was working long hours and needed quick, convenient meals and beverages to...