Peng’s links for Wednesday, 27 August
Posted by Peng on 27 August 2008
- Dave Townsend: Throwing in the Towel. The developer of the Nightly Tester Tools (NTT), Update Channel Selector and Tab Sidebar extensions for Firefox and Thunderbird has essentially ceased development on his extensions. He says NTT and Update Channel Selector will probably get an update or two each, but otherwise we shouldn’t look for any more updates to his extensions. I’m sorry to see him close up shop on his extensions. I use NTT and Update Channel Selector quite often, even if I don’t return to beta testing new versions of Firefox. You’ll definitely be missed, Dave, but best of luck on your current and future endeavors. If any add-on developer should be elected into the Mozilla Dev Hall of Fame on their first ballot, you do.
- Daniel Holbach: Second Ubuntu Developer Week! Just because it has Developers in the title doesn’t mean only tech-y types need attend. If you’re not sure there’s any way you can help develop Ubuntu Intrepid check out the list of things Daniel lists as being a part of the UDW. You may just find something you can participate in. I need to try to get back to helping with 5-A-Day again, and I may have to try to get in on the packaging sessions. There are a couple of things I wouldn’t mind learning how to package.
- Wladimir Palant: Don’t bother reporting your plugin issues to me. Wladimir is the developer of Adblock Plus, and he’s seeing a lot of bugs filed against various plugins for Firefox. There’s just one problem: There’s not a hell of a lot he can do about plugin issues with Adblock Plus. Luckily he points out the work of Adobe devs that have done to fix some annoying bugs. Unfortunately their bug fix caused some regressions. I hate when that happens.
I have a couple or so more things I want to post on, but since they’re not GUN/Linux/Ubuntu related I’ll post them separately.
