Author Archives: William Lachance

Proof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS

Posted on May 6, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] I just put up a proof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS here. Right now it has two days worth of data, manually sampled from … Continue reading →

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Further meditative practice

Posted on April 28, 2013 by William Lachance

Okay, remember last time when I said I was going to continue my “sham of a human existence” and not commit to a Zen practice? Well, I came back to the idea sooner than I thought: the experience was just … Continue reading →

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Actual useful FirefoxOS Eideticker results at last

Posted on April 22, 2013 by William Lachance

Another update on getting Eideticker working with FirefoxOS. Once again this is sort of high-level, looking forward to writing something more in-depth soon now that we have the basics working. I finally got the last kinks out of the rig … Continue reading →

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The need for a modern open source email client and Geary’s fundraiser

Posted on April 19, 2013 by William Lachance

One of my frustrations with the Linux desktop is the lack of an email client that’s in the same league as GMail or Apple’s mail.app. Thunderbird is ok as far as it goes (I use it for my day-to-day Mozilla … Continue reading →

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A visit to the Montreal Zen Center

Posted on March 24, 2013 by William Lachance

So for a bit of a departure from the usual technical content, a personal anecdote. I went to the Montreal Zen Center today for a workshop, which was a most illuminating experience. I’d been pretty fascinated with the idea of … Continue reading →

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Eideticker: Limitations in cross-browser performance testing

Posted on March 20, 2013 by William Lachance

Last summer I wrote a bit about using Eideticker to measure the relative performance of Firefox for Android versus other browsers (Chrome, stock, etc.). At the time I was pretty optimistic about Eideticker’s usefulness as a truly “objective” measure of … Continue reading →

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Documentation for mozdevice

Posted on March 11, 2013 by William Lachance

Just wanted to give a quick heads up that as part of the ateam’s ongoing effort to improve the documentation of our automated testing infrastructure, we now have online documentation for mozdevice, the python library we use for interacting with … Continue reading →

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Follow up on “Finding a Camera for Eideticker”

Posted on March 8, 2013 by William Lachance

Quick update on my last post about finding some kind of camera suitable for use in automated performance testing of fennec and b2g with eideticker. Shortly after I wrote that, I found out about a company called Point Grey Research … Continue reading →

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Finding a camera for Eideticker

Posted on February 19, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Ok, so as I mentioned last time I’ve been looking into making Eideticker work for devices without native HDMI output by capturing their output with … Continue reading →

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Eideticker for FirefoxOS

Posted on February 1, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Here’s a long overdue update on where we’re at with Eideticker for FirefoxOS. While we’ve had a good amount of success getting useful, actionable data … Continue reading →

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