Android IRC clients

I recently went looking for an IRC client for my Nexus One and couldn’t find any good information to narrow the field based on some quick google searches. So I downloaded 4 from the market to give them a try. Since others may also be looking for this sort of info I figured I’d share my…

ccache configure option for mozilla

On Friday I landed a patch for bug 577636, which adds an option to mozilla-central’s configure to use ccache for your build. You can just add — with-ccache=<path to ccache> to your mozconfig to begin building with ccache. Or you can just use — with-ccache=ccache if…

Android Development VM

Do you want to try hacking on Fennec for Android but stopped as soon as you saw the build docs were written by drunk monkeys during a knife fight? Or maybe you only have a quick task that you’d like to tackle which doesn’t justify setting up a whole dev environment. Either way, I’m hoping…

Chunking up word press xml

As you may have noticed I moved my blog off of mozilla’s server. I wanted to bring all of my old posts along, but the size of the wordpress xml export file proved to be a problem. I wound up writing a little python script to chunk up the xml. Since google found plenty of people…

Laptop recommendations

Dear Lazyweb,
Its come time for me to upgrade my laptop. Its gotten to the point that I don’t expect to be able to get any coding work done when I travel because builds take 6–8x longer on my laptop than they do on my desktop (which make me wonder what I did before I had this nice shiny…

Android screen shots without rooting your phone

It turns out you can take a screenshot from your android device without rooting it. Simply download the android SDK (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html) and extract it as instructed. In the tools folder of your SDK there is a utility…

Script to download and resign android nightlies

Sometimes I have to use nightly builds to track down when regressions happen. There are two things that are annoying about that. First, I usually know I want a nightly build from a certain day, but I don’t know what hour that build was produced by…

Android on trunk

Last week we closed out the last couple bugs required to get a working android build from mozilla-central. Our builders are now working off of trunk rather than the branch.

We’re a real platform now, exciting times.

Nightly updates for Fennec on Android

Alex Pakhotin did some great work over the last couple weeks to get our update system working on Android, followed up by Aki Sasaki getting all the server side bits together. The result? You’ll now get prompted to update your Fennec nightly builds on Android.

Fourth Alpha for Fennec on Windows Mobile

I’m really happy to announce the fourth alpha release of Fennec for Windows Mobile. It has been some time since we released the third alpha and things have come quite far since then. Please have a look at this video walk through to get a sense of how things…