Category Archives: Data Visualization

Measuring reduced checkerboarding in mobile Fennec

Posted on January 3, 2012 by William Lachance

After my post on measuring checkerboarding in mobile Firefox, Clint Talbert (my fearless manager) suggested I run a before and after test to measure the improvement that just landed as part of bug 709512. After a bit of cleanup, I … Continue reading →

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Year end Eideticker update

Posted on December 23, 2011 by William Lachance

Just before I leave for some Christmas vacation, it’s time for another update on the state of Eideticker. Since I last blogged about the software, I’ve been working on the following three areas: Coming up with better algorithm (green screen … Continue reading →

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Eideticker update

Posted on December 8, 2011 by William Lachance

Since I last blogged about Eideticker, I’ve made some good progress. Here’s some highlights: Eideticker has a new, much simpler harness and tests are much easier to write. Initially, I was using Talos for this task with the idea that … Continue reading →

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Measuring what the user sees

Posted on November 11, 2011 by William Lachance

I’ve been spending the last month or so at Mozilla prototyping a new project called Eideticker which aims to use video capture data and image/frame analysis for performance measurement of Firefox Mobile. It’s still in quite a rough state, but … Continue reading →

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Faster, but not quite there yet…

Posted on October 25, 2011 by William Lachance

So as others have been posting about, we’ve been making some headway on our progress on the GoFaster project. Unfortunately it seems like we’re still some distance away from reaching our magic number of a 2 hour turnaround for each … Continue reading →

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A better BIXI web site

Posted on June 10, 2011 by William Lachance

There’s much to like about the BIXI bike-sharing system in Montréal: it’s affordable ($78 for a year of biking), accessible and fun to use. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that it’s made cycling more of a main stream … Continue reading →

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Template for a map-based web app

Posted on June 3, 2011 by William Lachance

Finally got around doing something I’d meaning to for a while, which is create a simple template for a web-based mapping application based on jQuery and some of my earlier work on routez. I’m hoping this might be useful as … Continue reading →

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Adventures in processing with prender

Posted on March 7, 2010 by William Lachance

First, I’m overdue in announcing Transit to Go a.k.a. “the iPhone transit map that’s demonstrably more useful than a paper schedule” a.k.a. “your bus departure in 15 seconds or less, no matter where you are”. I wrote up a blog … Continue reading →

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