Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• June 6th, 2007

  Coverage of the Navigator 9 Beta

  Articles about the release of the Navigator 9 Beta have been all over the Web today. Here are the major ones that I’ve spotted: Slashdot: First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 Fark: Netscape releases a new browser. In other news, Netscape still makes a browser 456 Berea Street: Software Update Day Pronet Advertising: Netscape Navigator [...]

• June 5th, 2007

  New Book of Mozilla verse

  If you’re running Netscape Navigator 9.0, type “about:mozilla” into the address bar to see the newest verse from the Book of Mozilla: “And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good. — from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20″ A cookie goes to the first person who can identify the [...]

• June 5th, 2007

  Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta Released

  The long national nightmare is over: the beta of Netscape Navigator 9.0 has finally been released to the public. Read the official announcement here. Read a more informal introduction to the browser here. Download it here. Read the release notes here. Discuss it here.

• June 4th, 2007

  C.K.’s start-up life

  C.K. Sample III describes the last two years of working in various start-up environments inside and outside of AOL. I found this part especially interesting: Aside: I must take a moment here to implore everyone at AOL: release the new Netscape Browser. I’ve played with early versions of it and it’s great. The best browser [...]

• May 11th, 2007

  Own a piece of history

  For the low, low price of $189,900, you could own this piece of Web software history: This is the very building where I worked on such projects as Slashdotter, Netscape Navigator 9, OPML Support for Firefox, ScribeFire, the Digg Top Users list, and most recently, Twits Like Me. If you act now, I’ll even throw [...]

• May 8th, 2007

  New browser extension: AutoAuth

  AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it [...]

• May 5th, 2007

  Extending JavaScript

  There are a lot of common programming algorithms that are built into various languages as functions: checking if an array contains a certain item, trimming a string, mapping a function to an array, etc. JavaScript doesn’t have a lot of these built-ins, but with prototypical inheritance, it’s easy enough to add them. I’m thinking it [...]

• May 1st, 2007

  Netscape 9 Teasers: Week XI

  See you later, Navigator.