Sep/091
Married, Mozilla and More
Wow, so it seems I have misplaced my blog this summer. However getting married, moving and taking an epic honeymoon can do that to blogs. It’s been a whirl wind kind of summer, full of change. It’s hard to know where to start, so I’ll start with what matters most.
Being a married man, now for over a month, I can safely say I am both lucky and very much in love. It seems all those years Tasha and I enjoyed as a couple has us well prepared for the life of husband and wife. We have fallen into a wonderfully collaborative effort of eating, cleaning and entertaining. We have both spent a great deal of time preparing our home and we are finally enjoying the fruits of our labour, and it’s fantastic!
When I last blogged my internship at Mozilla had just begun, as I write this I find it came and went too quickly. Opportunity doesn’t always come at the right moment, but you need to seize it nonetheless. I’m so happy that I took the chance to work with Mozilla this summer — even if life had me pulled in too many directions. Spending time in California meeting Stuart, Doug, Mark and others was rewarding. During these last few months I have kept my eyes and ears open and the thing I take most from the experience is how dedicated and passionate they all are. It has inspired me to find that same passion in what I choose to do from now on. I’m spending my time now to take a look at the job market to find what best suits me, my skills and my passions. My home life is already proving to be rather fulfilling and I have decided I will settle for nothing less in my professional life.
I’m choosing to leave this blog post on the shorter side, it’s impossible to catchup with everything that has happened. However, some parting notes, I plan on remaining a contributor to the Mozilla project – the experience can only be surpassed by it’s importance, these are world class developers and I still have so much to learn and contribute.
I also would like to take a moment to thank Silvana from Impulse Photography, she has a track record of producing some of the most unique and creative photography around, and our wedding was no exception. With that I leave you with moments from our big day – Thanks Silvana!
May/091
It’s a new Dawn, It’s a new Day, It’s a new Life
For Me.
And I’m feeling Good.
I’m reminded of this song by Nina Simone, as today Natasha and I get the keys to our new home! This brings us one step closer to marriage and serves as a precursor to the big changes to come for the both of us.
I’m also bolstered by my impending trip to Mountain View to join the ranks of Mozilla as an intern. I feel privileged to have such an amazing opportunity, due in no small part the wonderful people of Seneca. I plan to blog about my experiences in California in the coming weeks, as well as my time in the MoTo offices upon my return. Here’s to a sunny Friday morning in Toronto.
Apr/095
1.0 Release – Camera Capture with Live Preview
This is a picture of a very happy person…
1.0 Release - Nino Shot
That’s my Camera Capture application in action! I started from the built in Microsoft SDK sample and added the live preview. This is a big first step towards introducing the functionality to Fennec. I have zipped up all the code which can be found here. Also see the gallery for a few other shots: Ted wanted a picture of the code that lets me takes pictures and Mike wanted a picture of my blog within a picture of my blog, in order to create a singularity that would implode the blogsphere (however I believe I have failed him – sorry Mike!). Finally the last image is a picture of my car from the window, this is the image captured after tapping ‘Take a still image’.
This concludes my DPS911 course work, however I have managed to land myself an internship this summer at Mozilla! So that means I’ll be taking all my work this term further and starting new and exciting things for Fennec, so stay tuned!
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- 1.0 Release – Nino Shot
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- 1.0 Release – Code Shot
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- 1.0 Release – Blog Shot
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- 1.0 Release – Car Shot
Apr/090
1.0 Release Update
It’s finally here, my last week at Seneca. It’s been a long time coming and I can sense the good feeling of being done coming along. However before I let myself enjoy my graduation I have a few more things to clear up. One being my 1.0 release. I will be working today and tomorrow on it, with an expected release for no later then Wednesday night.
Also I’m happy to report that my WiFi patch submitted for my 0.9 release has landed. The r+ and sr+ from Doug and Johnny came through yesterday and today.
Hopefully my next blog post will be for my 1.0 release.
Apr/091
0.9 Release – WiFi Scanning Updates on Windows Mobile
Needless to say for those in and around Seneca, and especially those in the BSD program, things have been non-stop for the last few weeks. After meeting with Dave I adjusted my 0.9 release target to something more realistic. I have been pushing on my WiFi bug to try and get it to the landing stage. I believe my latest patch gets it quite close, if not there. I know Doug is tied up with FF3.5 tree freeze so I’m not expecting a review for a little while. Thanks to Dave who understands the juggling act that consumes our lives right now and bringing real world solutions to real world problems; everything is not always clean and simple, as he says. For my next release I plan to produce a stand alone Camera application that at the very least captures still images using DirectDraw. In a more ideal scenario I will also add the live preview functionality, but I want to temper my expectations surrounding exams. More to follow in the coming days.