Changes

I am super duper excited to announce that I will be joining the Mozilla webdev team in October. I have been a fan and supporter of Mozilla products like Firefox and Thunderbird since I was just learning about unix and the internet back in Netscape Navigator 3.0 days.

Don't worry I (we) will be staying in Seattle. I'll be part of a team of remote developers.

It is an honor to join this small feisty company who's vision is to push forward an open web that anyone on the planet can use and make their own. It's a corporation and a non-profit foundation which blends contributions from employees, contractors, and most of all volunteers. A large part of why Firefox 3 is a freaking awesome browser is it's community created add-ons and it's localization into something like 30 languages such as ????? or ?? (??).

Add-ons is a project supported by the webdev team. Some of my favorite add-ons are GreaseMonkey, It's All Text!, and Firebug. GreaseMonkey allows users to "fix the web" without waiting for websites to make the fixes. A new project, Ubiquity, shows potential to make this even easier. It promise is to allow anyone that knows JavaScript to create new browser features from mashed up services, in a way that is more rapid and transparent to the developer.

Another benefit of working for Mozilla will be more openness and transparency. Everything Mozilla does is in the public eye and to serve the benefits of the community. I look forward to being more active in open source projects and participating more in building the shared web.

Hopefully before I start in October, I will be revamping some aspects of my web publishing thingamajiggs; putting out more frequent updates, besides what I have been eating.

Another change, is that this fall I will be starting a thesis project, as I am slowly coming to the end of my Masters program. I will probably be working on improving social identity features in web applications ( social networking software ). So lots of changes all around.