- Installed Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, Swift easy process and everything worked.
- Decided to be brave and then install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro. A good amount of work, tweaks, fixes and well, "differences" in Ubuntu...
- Open team meeting chat
- Talk with Christian about future plans for Mozilla Hacks
- Lots of internal discussions on various topics
- Emails, social media
Today:
- Mozilla Hacks Weekly. If you want to easily add links, there's a Firefox extension at http://robertnyman.com/hacksweekly/hacks-weekly.xpi - Try to use Ubuntu for as many tasks as possible
- E-mails and more
* Benchmarked 36 games on the Otoro and Nexus S (running Fennec)
* Started comparing the benchmark results
o It's interesting to see that Fennec performs much worse than
Firefox OS on a similar device
* Had an impromptu meeting with Martin Best to discuss games
o We're going to work on a communications plan that encompasses
the channels between dev community, press, and our developers
o He showed me some of the stuff we're working on (internal for
now, but holy wow!)
*Today*
* Try and get Firefox OS running on a Pandaboard
* Benchmark games on Fennec running on the Nexus 7 and Nexus
> - Installed Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, Swift easy process and > everything worked.
> - Decided to be brave and then install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro. A > good amount of work, tweaks, fixes and well, "differences" in Ubuntu...
> - Open team meeting chat
> - Talk with Christian about future plans for Mozilla Hacks
> - Lots of internal discussions on various topics
> - Emails, social media
> Today:
> - Mozilla Hacks Weekly. If you want to easily add links, there's a > Firefox extension at http://robertnyman.com/hacksweekly/hacks-weekly.xpi > - Try to use Ubuntu for as many tasks as possible
> - E-mails and more
> * Benchmarked 36 games on the Otoro and Nexus S (running Fennec)
> * Started comparing the benchmark results
> o It's interesting to see that Fennec performs much worse than
> Firefox OS on a similar device
> * Had an impromptu meeting with Martin Best to discuss games
> o We're going to work on a communications plan that encompasses
> the channels between dev community, press, and our developers
> o He showed me some of the stuff we're working on (internal for
> now, but holy wow!)
> *Today*
> * Try and get Firefox OS running on a Pandaboard
> * Benchmark games on Fennec running on the Nexus 7 and Nexus
> Robert Nyman wrote:
>> Yesterday:
>> - Installed Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, Swift easy process and >> everything worked.
>> - Decided to be brave and then install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro. A >> good amount of work, tweaks, fixes and well, "differences" in Ubuntu...
>> - Open team meeting chat
>> - Talk with Christian about future plans for Mozilla Hacks
>> - Lots of internal discussions on various topics
>> - Emails, social media
>> Today:
>> - Mozilla Hacks Weekly. If you want to easily add links, there's a >> Firefox extension at http://robertnyman.com/hacksweekly/hacks-weekly.xpi >> - Try to use Ubuntu for as many tasks as possible
>> - E-mails and more
* Discussions with many folks from Apps, Marketplace, B2G teams about tools and approaches to Apps development with current marketplace/platform readiness
*Discussions w/Firefox OS partners on how we can collaborate to support apps development, challenges, events etc
* Conversation(s) w/BizDev about their incoming Apps and upcoming Brazil trip & debrief from Chris Arnold
* DevHub content deliverables for Aug 28 release, Design Guide edits
* Surfed the web for Hacks Weekly
==Today==
* Taking my car in for diagnostics * Apps program planning * User research Recife trip recap
* More outreach and logistics for BR JS
(I'll be out of office in Brazil from Aug 23-Sept 8 - a couple days of PTO at the end)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Hawkes" <robhaw...@mozilla.com>
To: "Robert Nyman" <robny...@mozilla.com>
Cc: "engagement-developers" <engagement-develop...@lists.mozilla.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:02:51 AM
Subject: Re: #de-status August 16th, 2012
*Yesterday*
* Benchmarked 36 games on the Otoro and Nexus S (running Fennec)
* Started comparing the benchmark results
o It's interesting to see that Fennec performs much worse than
Firefox OS on a similar device
* Had an impromptu meeting with Martin Best to discuss games
o We're going to work on a communications plan that encompasses
the channels between dev community, press, and our developers
o He showed me some of the stuff we're working on (internal for
now, but holy wow!)
*Today*
* Try and get Firefox OS running on a Pandaboard
* Benchmark games on Fennec running on the Nexus 7 and Nexus
Robert Nyman wrote:
> Yesterday:
> - Installed Mountain Lion on my MacBook Air, Swift easy process and > everything worked.
> - Decided to be brave and then install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro. A > good amount of work, tweaks, fixes and well, "differences" in Ubuntu...
> - Open team meeting chat
> - Talk with Christian about future plans for Mozilla Hacks
> - Lots of internal discussions on various topics
> - Emails, social media
> Today:
> - Mozilla Hacks Weekly. If you want to easily add links, there's a > Firefox extension at http://robertnyman.com/hacksweekly/hacks-weekly.xpi > - Try to use Ubuntu for as many tasks as possible
> - E-mails and more
- 1-on-1 with Stormy - More App Cache Summit Organization / communication - Download newly released Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 - Read several submitted AppCache / Offline Use Case Scenarios - Mail out call for Newsletter Content - Newsletter schedule to go out timed in conjunction with the Marketplace beta - Share thought on when to start documenting early APIS - Send out Mobile Work Week day trip report - Fix KOTimer Demo App manifest (again !) file for demos today - Read notes from Tuesday's App Cache discussion in London - Read several sets of suggestions from invited App Cache Summit attendees who will not be able to attend.
Today - Demo App experience for Stormy, Havi - work on app quality list - prove IndexedDB blob mime type issue and submit bug
* Started work on ideas for doc contracts for stuff that more urgently needs doing. In the past, we'd been thinking about contracts mostly for stuff that's important but not of immediate urgency.
* MDN community meeting
* MDN project planning meeting: see http://scrumbu.gs/projects/mdn/2012-08-22/ for the bugs we've decided to do in this sprint.
Today:
* Writing staff meeting
* Give Ali a list of contracts we'd like to start for writing projects
* Check on the status of existing contracts
* Talk to WebAPI team about the status of various APIs (already done!)
