I love the new badges from Mozilla.com. Check them out at SpreadFirefox.

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This weekend there is a meeting in Sevilla, Spain about blogging, bloggers and Internet in general. It is called EBE (Evento Blog España) and around 900 people will come to Sevilla to participate on that.

Nukeador, Dukebody and me, all members of Mozilla-Hispano community and Proyecto NAVE, have been invited to stay there, maybe not for our blogs (who knows this blog?) but sure for our implication on the open Web and open standars.

It is a unique opportunity to met a lot of known people of the Spanish Blogosphere and talk with them about Mozilla, and how we can help them to use Firefox, Thunderbird and take a lot of feedback to improve our market-share in Spain.

As Choffman told to Nukeador, we are going to play some games to spread the word of Firefox and Mozilla and share our knowledge about Mozilla and its products as well as take a lot of impressions.

And maybe we can steal some souls to help us in our projects

Wish us good luck

This weekend (25th and 26th of October), we are going to a new conference (EU Mozilla Camp 2008) where (please, don’t go ) I have a conference about using Firefox, with Nukeador, dukebody (members of Mozilla Hispano) and Alina Mierlus, member of the Mozilla Rumania community. We are talking about Thunderbird, Songbird and another XUL Dark Matter (programs built on the top of Mozilla Source Code).

So, see you tomorrow!

Nice build, a lot of bugfixes, only works on Nokia N800 and N810, and Windows Mobile builds are on the way, but there are builds of Fennec for Windows, Mac and Linux. Check it out here.

But since M8, we have a very nice feature: Tracemonkey.

Type about:config in the awesome(fennec) bar. Filter by: jit and activate (to true) the two preferences.

Maybe Tracemonkey for Firefox is: “Hey! Gmail looks like it is a little bit more smooth”, but for Fennec (where processors are slow), “Hey, it tooks only one second!! not 5!!”

So, Fennec Team: THANKS!!

Very nice work by IntotheFuzz. Awesome Summit!

Today I was reading something about Ubiquity (I will blog about this awesome extension in a few days, when I have played with it), and suddenly: Weave. Why not give it another chance?

The answer could be: it’s full. Nobody can sign-up now. The server is crowded, so it’s slow, buggy… And yes, it is full and crowded. But you can create your own Weave’s server. And I did on my Dreamhost server (this how-to is focused in Dreamhost, but could be adapted).

Step 0

If you are using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Weave will not work for you unless you do some things, like download:

NSS:

(i386) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15726878/libnss3-1d_3.12.0.3-0ubuntu0.8.04.1%7Emt1_i386.deb

(amd64) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1572687/libnss3-1d_3.12.0.3-0ubuntu0.8.04.1%7Emt1_amd64.deb

NSPR

(i386) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1572709/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1%2B1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2%7Emt1_i386.deb

(amd64) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15727094/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1%2B1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2%7Emt1_amd64.deb

You should install this forcing the packages to install:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all libnspr4-0d_4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2~mt1_i386.deb libnss3-1d_3.12.0.3-0ubuntu0.8.04.1~mt1_i386.deb

After that, you will be noticed with updates in your Ubuntu. Install it without risk.

Step 1 - Creating a WebDAV server

Go to panel.dreamhost.com > Domains > Manage domains.

Create a new domain like “sync.yourdomain.com” with the default options. Click on Fully host this domain now, and wait until you receive a mail from Dreamhost saying that you have a new domain.

Now go to the Goodies > Htaccess/WebDAV tab. You will see your different domains, so click on the new domain you have created in this step. Click on “Set up a new directory” and fill the form with those dates:

Directory name: whatever. “weave” could be nice.

Check the three options: Password-protected this dir?, Enable WebDAV on this dir? and ” Forbid linking to files in this dir?

Directory “name”: Whatever, could be the default one.

User accounts for this area: put your username and password with a space between them.

Click “Create directory” at the bottom and you have created a new WebDAV directory on your server.

Now, wait some minutes to receive the email confirming the activation of the dir.

After you received your confirmation, you need to edit some dirs and a file to work with 0.2.6.

You need to connect to your WebDAV server and make some directories and a file. Create a directory called “api“. Inside “api”, create a “share” directory. Enter the directory called share. Create an empty file called “get.php”

Step 2 - Configurying Weave

Install weave from here. Restart Firefox, open a new tab and type “about:config”

Search for

extensions.weave.username

and change its value to the same username (User accounts for this area) you created in step 1.

Now search for

extensions.weave.serverURL

and put your directory: “http://sync.yourdomain.com/weave/”.

Now click on the icon you have at the bottom-right of your browser and click “Sign in”. A new window will pop-up:

So, write your username, your password and a Passphrase that YOU WILL NEED TO REMEMBER if you want to use Weave in another computer.

Click on Sign in. If all goes well, you will be Synced!! And if you close the browser, you will see a window like that:

And that’s it!!

If you need to use another computer, please, follow Step 2.

Thanks for the tutorial to Marios Tziortzis and Weave FAQ

It first release was 10 years ago and run under Oracle (”it cost too much”) and Kiva (”$35,000 at the time”). And on 26th August 1998, Bugzilla could run freely (under Apache and MySQL).

Long live Bugzilla!

Reference #1 and #2

I should only commit to the browser directory and Ricardo to the rest: toolkit, mailnews, calendar… So we shouldn’t touch anything beyond our rights. For this kind of job where only one person work with a directory, CVS is enough.

But if you want to play with more people in the same directory, sharing your progress with them but without crashing the main development trunk, hg is for you.

The first thing I did with Mercurial was configure all my system, download the whole mozilla-central repository (because hg doesn’t allow partial checkouts yet) and download the es-ES directory on l10n-central.

It was no so painful but a bit slower since the main mozilla-central repository is around 300mb. And the following action was try to make Mozilla Translator work.

And I had no luck because there are too much garbage for localizers in the mozilla-central repository. So I do my first change to es-ES without protection, with Gnome editor.

Then my first commit and push:

hg diff
hg commit -m “Some stupiid message to impress myself”
hg push

And now see if my changes broke something.

It didn’t broke anything but there were missing some strings. New local changes and commit and push again.

After some days playing with hg on my machine I want to say that is easy to use if you know how, but there are different CSV because there are different pros and cons to anyone.

And now waiting for how to work with Mozilla Translator in Mercurial. Ricardo has some tips but I need to test myself.

Kind regards and enjoy Tracemonkey!

I think I will try this myself in less than 2 weeks…

So, this is an interesting blog post about that.

Also, congrats to gandalf (from MoCo, and Aviary.pl member), you are a new l10n-driver!