Tag Archives: design

Presentation on Accessibility and Design on Jan 20, come!

For those of you in Kitchener-Waterloo who are into web accessibility and product design, myself and Ali Ghassemi are doing an hour-long talk at the next uxWaterloo event on January 20, 2011 at 5:30pm.  We’re super excited! The focus will be practical advice for designers and developers about building accessible web applications. Ali and I …

January 4, 2011 – 17:50 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development, User Experience | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

How Farmville caused Firefox 3.6.6

So I noticed that Firefox updated itself again today, only a few days after it did last time.  Why the short time-lapse between Firefox 3.6.4 and 3.6.6? Just one bug: 574905. The Farmville Bug No joke, Firefox pushed an update on a single bug. Last release they introduced this great feature that times out Flash …

June 28, 2010 – 02:21 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner on the chaos and rewards of open source

On March 4th TorCHI hosted Mike Beltzner (blog) who is the Director of Development at Mozilla, though he prefers to call himself the “phenomenologist.”  His talk focused on how Mozilla has harnessed the power of the open source community to build Firefox: managing the chaos of open source and have good ideas rise to the …

March 13, 2009 – 12:02 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)