Month: December 2005

4 polish big internet news sites wrote that Isc Sans discovered the first security hole in Firefox 1.5.
The article titles are – “”First exploit for Firefox 1.5”, “Security holes in Firefox? Who cares…”, “Serious security hole in Firefox 1.5″ and so on. Every article has the same source, every describes the story how someone found security hole and Mozilla’s guys that they don’t care, that they things it’s not a security hole and every article mentiones that the fix will probably get into next stable version, summer next year.

To stay fair with truth every article mentiones in bottom”update” section that Mozilla claims that it’s NOT a security hole, that they could not prove it… SO HOW THE F*CK COULD THEY FIX IT?

Those articles are pathetic, I see no objectivism, no will to show both sides of the “conflict”, no will to dig BEFORE writing…

What a bullshit… They call it “journalizm”?

And, funny, not all of those 4 news sites overall had press news about Firefox 1.5 release! But about potential bug, woah, that’s a good subject for a great article, huh?

I’m not pissed off that they wrote it. I’m pissed off about how they balanced what one site wrote with what heads in Mozilla said.
I hate journalism that is built on top of lazyness and sensations.

I need a lot of time to sleep after my journey. This morning, almost overslept the van that took me to MoFo office.

At 10:00 am, Mark Pilgrim gave a great talk about his experience with the greasemonkey, python, and his vision for the web.
Then we went for the lunch to Google’s camp. It looks awsome and the food is good 🙂
After the lunch we went back and I choosed Brendan’s talk about Javascript 2.0. Brendan is the man with the vision, the combination that leads to success. And JS 2.0 looks great! Why we didn’t have it when we were working on Alladyn? 🙁
Then Schrep summerized the 1.5 release, we had a general talk about wins and looses, we mentioned a lot of L10n problems and it seems that Mozilla agrees that better solution is required.
Next hour was a L10n talk by Pike, which was great and I’m happy to see this subject covered more and more by the Gecko authors as this is more important than enything else for what I’m working on in Flock.
I spent next hour moving between Luke’s talk about Firefox’s market charts and Bsmedberg’s talk about XulRunner apps and future.
Next hour I was running between tor’s SVG talk and Brendan’s 1.8/1.9 Gecko branch plans and the last hour running between David’s talk about his Reflow branch and general talk about Places.
Yes, I think that too many great talks took place pararelly. 🙁

After that, we had a lunch with some pizza’s (yuck, I’ll never like american’s pizza.) and (fortunately) european beer. 🙂
Now I’m sitting with my laptop, with a Heineken in my hand and watching someBatman movie (yes, social thingy ;)).

In a hour I’ll go with Ben Turner to join Flock’s crew at a dinner at Beppos restaurant.

The talks were awsome. It’s a pitty that such general, great talks that are extremly interesting for many people who contribute to our code and comaines that releases Gecko based products were not here. I hope that next time Mozilla will organize more open Moz Conference.
My first impressions is that things are going to go in a way better form. Almost every little thing I could think that doesn’t work in Mozilla was covered during the talks with the very good notes and solutions. I’m especially happy to see that L10n becames more important than ever and it’s not that it’s a separate subject, but it’s there on every level – we were discussing L10n issues on talks about Gecko timeline, SVG, statistics, marketing, everywhere!

Tomorrow we’ll have a Mozilla Europe’s internal discussion about it’s goals and future, and the Flock’s talk.
I’ll spend Friday and Saturday in Flock, and take the Sunday off to visit some things around with Ania.

Ok, plugging off to get another bottle of beer. Cheers!

Hi all from Palo Alto in California! 🙂

I just’ve joined the crew after 12 hour flight, went to restaurant where we enjoyed some supper and drinks. I had a great chat in a Mozilla Europe’s table owned by Axel, Tristan, Peter, Olivier and Ania and me 🙂
I also had a chance to meet Chris Beard, Benjamin Smedberg and I even saw MScott, but I will never accept he’s so young 😉

We were very tired after the flight so Ania and me we took a early taxi with Tristan and I’m plugging off now to get up tomorrow morning and be at 10:00 am in the Mozilla office for Mark Pilgrim’s talk.

Today we spent some time during the lunch on Mozilla Europe’s and L10n issues and we will spend much more on this thread by tomorrow including long awaited Pike’s talk.

On Thursday will be the big day since I will finally meet my Flock’s crew and chat about some crucial things for my work.

On Friday we plan to keep talking about Mozilla Europe’s future, and during the weekend we’ll do sideseeing to finally get back to Poland on Tuesday.

good night