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Last week I managed to find myself a little bit of time for a project I had been meaning to get to: bzexport. bzexport is a Mercurial extension that allows you to attach patches from your Mercurial patch queue to bugzilla from the Mercurial command line. It’s the obvious companion to the qimportbz extension. You can read the README for details on installing and using the extension, but the short form is:

hg bzexport [REV] [BUG]

where REV is the name of a currently applied patch from your queue, and BUG is a bug number to attach it to. Of course, the extension is smarter than just that, and if you leave off those parameters it will default to working on the topmost patch in your queue, and it will attempt to deduce the bug number from the commit message in the patch. (Standard notation used at Mozilla should work, i.e. “bug 12345 – some text”, “b=12345 some text” etc.)

bzexport attempts to be clever and borrow your Bugzilla login cookies from your default Firefox profile so that you don’t have to provide authentication details. This does not currently work on the Mercurial shipped with MozillaBuild, so you’ll have to provide your username and password in your .hgrc as described in the README if you intend to use it under MozillaBuild’s hg.

bzexport relies on Gerv’s excellent BzAPI, so hats off to Gerv for that! Also, patches for additional functionality are welcome.

Here’s an overview of the stuff I accomplished during the week of August 30:

• Documented the NetUtils.jsm method readInputStreamToString().
• Documented the mozIStorageConnection method clone().
• Documented new notifications sent by Places.
• Documented the new timeout suspend and resume functions on the nsIDOMWindowUtils interface.
• Documented the new chrome-document-global-created and content-document-global-created notifications.
• Documented the DownloadLastDir.jsm code module.
• Documented changes to the Function.apply() method for ECMAScript 5 compliance.
• Added details about xpcnativewrappers=no going away to the XPCOM changes in Gecko 2.0 page.
• Documented the mozIStorageConnection method setGrowthIncrement().
• Documented some changes to XPCOMUtils.jsm.
• Worked on documentation and sample code for the click() method on file input elements, but found and filed bug 592802 after finding an issue preventing sample code from working. Docs on hold until this bug is fixed.

I also worked on various documentation cleanup tasks and some copy-edits as usual, as well as some additional documentation bug triage.

As someone who’s spent 10 years in Broadcast TV, radio and “web” (closed platform web consisting mainly of antiquated, proprietary players, crappy .net and locked-down windows-only content that does not talk open web) I’m pleased to see the BBC putting focus and serious man-hours into merging internet standards and the future of broadcasting. Since this is extremely important, I hope the Beeb gets a bunch of talented applicants with the right mix of punch and geek mastery.

May the force be with whoever gets this job – you will have many friends here, including me

Senior Technologist, Internet Standards

The Internet Standards role involves liaison with various Internet and Web organisational and technical bodies to allow the BBC to influence and shape future standards, build prototypes to prove or disprove emerging research, and feed into new BBC products and services to create innovative new user experiences. More at BBC Jobs – thanks to Brendan for the tip

El seminari Personal Democracy Forum és, potser, l'esdeveniment del món amb més concentració d'investigadors i “gurús” sobre la relació entre Internet i política, democràcia i administració. Es realitza anualment als Estats Units i els seus ponents són els principals investigadors i pioners en la implementació de les noves tecnologies en la política i en la participació política. Els seus fundadors són Andrew Rasieg y Micah L. Sifry.

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Save Web pages, articles and links in a list to access later. Sync and see your list from any computer or phone.

Not long ago I went on a retreat designed to help attendees tap into their “inner writer”. I slept in a yurt and ignored the beach rats that gnawed at my backpack in pursuit of cashews. After two days of journaling and sharing bowls of organic kale with my co-participants,  I mentioned I was blogging for Rock Your Firefox.

One of the guys in my group, let’s call him Pete, said: “What I really need is something that keeps track of sites I want to get back to later after I’m done surfing. Right now I save them all in a word doc and that just seems silly.” Well Pete, I hope you’re reading, because it’s time for you to Read It Later.

After you install the add-on, right click on your toolbar, and make sure “Navigation Toolbar” is checked. Then click on “Customize…”

Find the “Reading List” icon and drag it to your toolbar:

To get started, you’ll need to locate a different icon—the one which saves Web pages you’d like to revisit again in the future. It automatically appears in your location bar, and you click it when you’re on a page you’d like to read later:

When you have some free time to read those articles, just click the icon you placed on your toolbar:

And you’ll see your list:

But that’s really just the beginning of Read it Later. You can sync reading lists to all your computers and your iPhone and Android. There are share features and “Click-to-Save” mode lets you turn interesting links into a reading list, fast and easy. Plus, “Text” view takes away images, ads and layout formatting. Here’s the regular view:

And here’s the text view:

Read it Later never gets in your way, and it’s always there when you need it. Give it a try.

Get It Now

Read It Later 2.0.6 has been tested and approved by Mozilla. learn more

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Post from Elise Allen, who thanks workshop participants for putting up with her sardonic sense of humor.

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A single screenshot is often better than a lot of words...

Podem agraïr els moments d'humor qe ens ha proporcionat aquest dibuixant i mestre de l'humor polític, mort recentement.
Trobareu també un enllaç amb dibuixos seus significatius, comentats, en aquesta entrada:

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Amb una miqueta de seny (fins i tot constitucional), voluntat i democràcia es pot aconeguir!

Sorprenent. Qui ha vist Enciclopèdia Catalana i qui la veu. Un exemple de com el catalanisme tradicional no ha sabut adaptar-se a les noves tecnologies.

Aquests dies s'ha presentat la nova enciclopèdia.cat (apunt al seu bloc). Un comentarista de La Tafanera diu que el servidor el tenen configurat en espanyol.

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llegeix més

Avui hem estrenat una nova proposta a la redacció. A partir d'ara cada primer dimarts de mes acollirem una tertúlia informal organitzada pel Grup de Periodistes Ramon Barnils. Es tracta simplement de prendre un cafè de bon matí amb la presència de membres del propi grup i un convidat, que en aquest cas i per a començar ha estat Jordi Barbeta, de La Vanguardia.

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La gran xarlotada   

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El jove Miquel Costa i Llobera

 

Per Miquel López Crespí, escriptor

 

 

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Font: El Tentacle

L’Associació Guiness World Récord va donar la certificació oficial a l’empresa tèxtil peruana Coats Cadena, per haver fabricat el jersei més gran del món fet a mà.

El gerent de l’empresa Fabio Salazar, creu que la certificació és un reconeixement a Perú i al treball realitzat entre la companyia i un gran nombre de professores capacitades en teixit, que plegats varen aconseguir triplicar el que era el jersei més gran del món fabricat a Xina.

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+ info Tourist Info Simat de la Valldigna

• Cartell excursió a Bocairent 

En David ens envia el seu escriptori i ens comenta: L’ull, per cert, és el meu

David Prat Jorba,
davidpratjorba@lletresferides.cat
http://www.escoltamaca.blogspot.com
http://www.lletresferides.cat