If you’ve been reading my blog, you probably know that one of the pieces of the web platform that I’m most involved in is the HTML5 Canvas.  It’s a very direct way of getting 2D (and soon 3D) graphics into web pages, and removes many of the barriers between developers and graphics rendering.  One of [...]

A discussion on programming (“software engineering” if you want to get all fancy) arose on an IRC channel, and a few interesting links were posted.  This video is perhaps the best visual representation that I’ve seen of what a programmer’s job is often like.  Luckily, working at Mozilla and with the great people in our [...]

In response to my previous post about VTune and Shark, a number of people suggested alternate tools.  Both the tools suggested, AQtime and GlowCode, had evaluation versions easily available so I figured I’d give them a try and write up a mini review of each. First up is AQtime.  This tool takes an instrumentation approach, [...]

If you’ve ever used any profiling tools but have never used Shark on OSX, find a Mac and play with it for a while.  In fact, if you can’t find a mac, go to an Apple Store and find a Mac with the SDK installed and play with Shark.  I’ll warn you though; it’ll spoil [...]

Every time I actually plan on spending more time blogging, it never happens.  So… here’s a quick update on stuff that I’ve been working on. Fixing bug 424423 is almost done, the border rendering is really slow bug.  roc’s been helping me out with reviews, and I’ve been grumblingly adding aPrefix aTo aAll aMy aParamemter [...]