While starting to convert much of our IO to using nio byte buffers, with an eventual goal in pushing that further up into the application, I decided to investigate in some more detail performance. I’d seen some blog posts that claimed that performance wasn’t great, in particular a very old blog post from 2004. That [...]

The last post here was about leaving Mozilla, and I mentioned a tiny bit about where I was going and what I’ll be working on. Then there was radio silence for a few months. So, what have I been up to? First off, we launched WebGL 1.0 at GDC 2011. I was serving as chair [...]

I’ve recently made the decision to leave Mozilla for various reasons, largely because I’ve been wanting to do something different. Here are some thoughts on this. I became involved in Firefox and the Mozilla community when I was suckeredtalked into fixing a bug — a bug that involved RDF, bookmarks, and the template builder. (Thankfully, [...]

One of the parts of Firefox 4 that I’m excited about is support for WebGL, a standard for accelerated 3D rendering on the web. We’ve been working on this for quite a while, and I’ve been doing experiments with a similar kind of 3D support for a few years now. With the upcoming release of [...]

I’ve often been frustrated with the lack of a good solution for syncing a photo library amongst multiple computers.  Typically, I only have my laptop with me when I take photos, especially on a trip.  When I get back home, I want to sort and edit on a grown-up computer.  None of the photo management [...]