Category Archives: Free Software

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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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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Updates on my ridiculous pet projects

Posted on September 29, 2011 by William Lachance

1. As you may or may not have noticed, hbus.ca has been down for the past few weeks. Halifax updated the data but I didn’t have a chance to update it. Well, I finally did, and hbus is now up … Continue reading →

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Routez opensourced

Posted on April 19, 2011 by William Lachance

Just a quick note to say that I just opensourced the software behind hbus.ca, nicknamed “Routez” under the Affero GPL. You can get the code on github. For those new to the project, hbus.ca is a generic trip planning / … Continue reading →

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Déchets Montréal goes mobile

Posted on February 19, 2011 by William Lachance

A few weekends ago, there was a Montréal Ouvert hackfest at the Notman House. I decided to take a bit of a break from my usual transit hacking and built up a mobile friendly interface to the wonderful Déchets Montréal, … Continue reading →

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Back to WordPerfect: libwpd 0.9.0

Posted on November 17, 2010 by William Lachance

Those who’ve known me for a while have probably heard about my first major open source project, libwpd. In a nutshell, it’s a parser for WordPerfect documents with the primary aim of converting them into something usable by the major … Continue reading →

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