Mourning the Death of my Dad.

It’s been several days since I heard the news that my dad had passed away and the pain isn’t any better. I have some good moments and I’m thankful for my amazing wife Maggie who has supported me during the… Continue Reading

Very sad day for my family.

Tonight I had to do something incredibly hard. Something that is immensely difficult and with no easy way of doing so. I had to tell my children that their grandfather will be passing away soon. Some may know from my… Continue Reading

Cool new Feature in Ubiquity 0.5.4; Command Discoverability

After upgrading to Ubiquity 0.5.4, I started noticing something very cool. It now prompts with a really simple and unobtrusive reminder that you have commands available for specific sites. Very neat. The reason I like this is because it’s just… Continue Reading

New York City Meetup Next Tuesday (8/18). Learn About Firefox Add-on Development!

I’ll be in New York City next Tuesday, August 18th, along with AMO Product Manager Justin Scott, to host the first leg of the Mozilla Add-ons Meetup Tour. We’ll be discussing some of the newest initiatives going on including Collections,… Continue Reading

1 Billion Firefox Downloads & Counting

Today marked the 1 billionth download of Firefox, an incredible milestone in the history of the biggest open source project around. Here, let me put that into actual numbers: 1,000,171,095 (at last count) That is a staggering figure for an… Continue Reading

NewEgg.com Totally Redeems Themselves

I posted the other day about my disappointment in NewEgg.com for what I felt was a lack of genuine interest in my problem with the way my order was packaged. I felt that I was doing the right thing by… Continue Reading

NewEgg.com Disappointment

I let a lot of things slide mainly because I’ve been around enough to know some things are beyond your control. But today, the folks at NewEgg.com disappointed me. I’ve ordered plenty of PC gear from them and they’re generally… Continue Reading

A Redesigned Add-ons Site and Add-on Collections

Last night we rolled out a major redesign of Mozilla’s add-on site AMO. This was a huge release meant to not only provide a much better UI but also to improve organization and discoverability of add-ons. Over the last several… Continue Reading

Help my Daughter Win the Battle of the Babies

We submitted our daughter Brianna’s picture to the Elvis Duran Battle of the Babies. It’s a fun contest put on by our local radion station Y100 & since she turned 1 year old yesterday, we thought this would be a… Continue Reading

Is jQuery Safe?

Today I saw an interesting question posted on the jQuery support group asking if jQuery is virus & trojan free. I found it a bit of a strange question considering that: The jQuery Project has been alive and growing for… Continue Reading