Category Archives: General

Fast Flash in Fennec

By dougt | Published: November 29, 2009
For the last few days, we have been making Flash fast in Fennec. Our situation in Fennec is that we have a hidden browser element that contains the flash object/embed element. When a paint needs to happen, we draw whatever the plugin wants to draw into a canvas or sent of canvas elements. These canvas [...]
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Location Privacy

By dougt | Published: October 26, 2009
A month ago, I was at the MetaPlaces conferences on a panel on Privacy. Dev, the moderator, asked a really interesting question: “what are you most scared about”. It is a very interesting question. Sitting next to me was the head lawyer of the CDT, someone who has giving me tons of grief about the [...]
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CoreLocation in 10.6

By dougt | Published: September 21, 2009
I took a really quick look at the built-in location services on Mac 10.6.  I wanted to determine what sort of accuracy the feature had out-of-the-box, and what the API looked like. The code is pretty simple.  Just something like: CLLocationManager* locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init]; locationManager.delegate                = self; locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest; [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; The [...]
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

By dougt | Published: August 14, 2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver died this week. Best known as the founder of the Special Olympics, she reshaped how we think about people with mental disabilities. Mrs. Shriver ensured that people with mental disabilities have a place in our society, that they are guaranteed civil rights including access to an education. Much of this you may [...]
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