Category Archives: Technical Entries

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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Mass code relicensing with facebook’s codemod

Posted on June 7, 2012 by William Lachance

Recently the Firefox source repository (mozilla-central) was converted over recently to a new license with a lovely short boilerplate. This is great, but here in automation and tools, we have a fairly large number of projects that live outside of … Continue reading →

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Playing with pandas

Posted on February 10, 2012 by William Lachance

For the last few days I’ve been experimenting with getting a Pandaboard running Android 4.0, continuing the work that Clint Talbert started in the fall to get these boards for use as a replacement for the Tegra in Mozilla’s android … Continue reading →

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Eideticker areas to explore

Posted on December 9, 2011 by William Lachance

So I got some nice feedback on my Eideticker post yesterday on various channels. It seems like some people are interested in hacking on the analysis portion, so I thought I’d give some quick pointers and suggestions of things to … 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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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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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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Oh, the lines! And some help for Edmonton.

Posted on April 10, 2010 by William Lachance

A productive day on the transit development front. Finished up a few big features related to hbus.ca and Transit to Go: Sped up the graph and database generation by an order of magnitude. Not too exciting from a user perspective, … Continue reading →

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Nexus One

Posted on March 16, 2010 by William Lachance

Oh glorious day, the Nexus One is now available for purchase in Canada! I’ve been feeling less and less enthusiastic about the iPhone lately, in particular after the ridiculous lawsuit against HTC. It’s no secret that we at Navarra have … 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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