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Bits on the rampage: Eric Shepherd's blog.

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2026 1

  1. Five-word movie review: “Project Hail Mary”

2025 2

  1. One path to better documentation
  2. Moving forth and moving on

2022 2

  1. Five-word movie review: “Ghostbusters Afterlife”
  2. Five-word movie review: “Free Guy”

2021 6

  1. Five-word movie review: “The Matrix Resurrections”
  2. Five-word movie review: “Finch”
  3. Five-word movie review: “Dune” (2021)
  4. A tragedy of our making
  5. Five-word movie review: “The Tomorrow War”
  6. Five-word movie review: “Greenland”

2020 10

  1. Five-word movie review: “The Midnight Sky”
  2. Five-word movie review: “Guns Akimbo”
  3. Amazon Wins Sheppy
  4. Documentus interruptus
  5. Moz-eying along…
  6. Greyhound
  7. Welcome to remote working
  8. Five-word movie review: “Knives Out”
  9. Five-word movie review: “Terminator: Dark Fate”
  10. Five-word movie review: “Ad Astra”

2019 9

  1. Five-word movie review: “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker”
  2. The Tall-Tale Clock: The myth of task estimates
  3. Five-word movie review: “Aquaman”
  4. Five-word movie review: “John Carter”
  5. Five-word movie review: “The History of Time Travel”
  6. Five-word movie review: “Captain Marvel”
  7. Five-word movie review: “Superman Returns”
  8. Five-word movie review: “Once Upon a Deadpool”
  9. Five-word movie review: “Skyscraper”

2018 35

  1. Five-word movie review: “The Death of Stalin”
  2. Five-word movie review: “The Revenant”
  3. Five-word movie review: “Disobedience”
  4. Five-word movie review: “The Osiris Child (Science Fiction Volume I)”
  5. Five-word movie review: “First Man”
  6. Five-word movie review: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
  7. Five-word movie review: “The Avengers: Infinity War”
  8. Five-word movie review: “Downsizing”
  9. Five-word movie review: “Mission Impossible: Fallout”
  10. Five-word movie review: “All The Money In The World”
  11. Five-word movie review: “Tau”
  12. Five-word movie review: “Incredibles 2”
  13. Five-word movie review: “Annihilation”
  14. Five-word movie review: “Solo”
  15. Five-word movie review: “Wanted”
  16. Five-word movie review: “Rememory”
  17. Five-word movie review: “Curvature”
  18. Five-word movie review: “Red Sparrow”
  19. Five-word movie review: “Deadpool 2”
  20. Five-word movie review: “Black Panther”
  21. Five-word movie review: “Murder On The Orient Express” (2017)
  22. Five-word movie review: “I, Tonya”
  23. Results of the MDN “Internal Link Optimization” SEO experiment
  24. Five-word movie review: “Ready Player One”
  25. Results of the MDN “Competitive Content Analysis” SEO experiment
  26. Results of the MDN “Duplicate Pages” SEO experiment
  27. Five-word movie review: “Justice League”
  28. Five-word movie review: “Miss Sloane”
  29. Five-word movie review: “Evolution”
  30. Five-word movie review: “Infinity Chamber”
  31. Five-word movie review: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
  32. Five-word movie review: “The Magnificent Seven” (2016)
  33. Five-word movie review: “Cube”
  34. Five-word movie review: “Allied”
  35. Five-word movie review: “About Time”

2017 18

  1. Five-word movie review: “Blade Runner 2049”
  2. Five-word movie review: “Bright”
  3. Five-word movie review: “Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi”
  4. Five-word movie review: “10 Cloverfield Lane”
  5. Avoiding “thin” pages when writing on MDN
  6. Results of the MDN “Thin Pages” SEO experiment
  7. A rant about modern cinematography
  8. Five-word movie review: “Colossal”
  9. Communication on the home front: the Nucleus intercom
  10. Five-word movie review: “Wonder Woman”
  11. A genuine medical oddity
  12. Doing what doesn’t come naturally
  13. Happy eleventh Mozillaversary to me!
  14. Five-word movie review: Passengers
  15. Five-word movie review: Captain America—Civil War
  16. Five-word movie review: The Accountant
  17. Five-word movie review: The Finest Hours
  18. Five-word movie review: Deepwater Horizon

2016 41

  1. Five-word movie review: ARQ
  2. Ranking the Star Wars movies
  3. Five-word movie review: Rogue One
  4. Five-word movie review: Suicide Squad
  5. Five-word movie review: Coherence
  6. Five-word movie review: Eye In the Sky
  7. Five-word movie review: Hardcore Henry
  8. TV, TL;DR, and the American voter
  9. TV, TL;DR, and the American voter
  10. Slipping
  11. Finding stuff: My favorite Firefox search keywords
  12. Five-word movie review: Troop Beverly Hills
  13. Five-word movie review: Warcraft
  14. Five-word movie review: “Divergent”
  15. Five-word movie review: Kick-Ass
  16. Five-word movie review: After the Dark
  17. Five-word movie review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  18. Five-word movie review: Jane Got a Gun
  19. Five-word movie review: Particle Fever
  20. MDN pro tip: Watch for changes
  21. Five-word movie review: Star Trek Beyond
  22. Five-word movie review: Independence Day: Resurgence
  23. Five-word movie review: Guardians of the Galaxy
  24. Five-word movie review: Hail, Caesar!
  25. Five-word movie review: Timeline
  26. Five-word movie review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  27. Five-word movie review: Race
  28. Five-word movie review: Chronicle
  29. Five-word movie review: Kilo Two Bravo
  30. Well, that’s a result…
  31. Five-word movie review: Deadpool
  32. Five-word movie review: Paycheck
  33. Five-word movie review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
  34. Smart people + open discussion + epiphany = a better Web for everyone
  35. Five-word movie review: Concussion
  36. Five-word movie review: The Big Short
  37. A decade of writing at Mozilla
  38. Five-word movie review: Argo
  39. Five-word movie review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
  40. Ruminating on Rey
  41. Five-word movie review: “Ant-Man”

2015 13

  1. Five-word movie review: “Trainwreck”
  2. Theorizing on “The Force Awakens”
  3. Five-word movie review: “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”
  4. Five-word movie review: “Pixels”
  5. Five-word movie review: “Terminator Genisys”
  6. Worlds collide: The weekly API documentation meeting
  7. The Web: Now with 500% more amazing goodness
  8. Five-word movie review: “The Martian”
  9. Five-word movie review: Jurassic World
  10. Five-word movie review: Oblivion
  11. Nine years of documenting the open Web
  12. Five-word movie review: “Gone Girl”
  13. Five-word movie review: “Boyhood”

2014 30

  1. The fast and the frustrating
  2. The Sheppy Report: September 26, 2014
  3. The Sheppy Report: September 19, 2014
  4. A sigh of relief…
  5. No breaks for you!
  6. The Sheppy Report: September 12, 2014
  7. The Sheppy Report: September 5, 2014
  8. The Sheppy Report: August 29, 2014
  9. The Sheppy Report: August 22, 2014
  10. The Sheppy Report: August 15, 2014
  11. The Sheppy Report: August 8, 2014
  12. The Sheppy Report: Week of July 28, 2014
  13. Talking shop at Open Help
  14. Sheppy at Open Help Conference 2014
  15. Standing strong and staying Mozillian
  16. Five-word movie review: “Frozen”
  17. On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla
  18. Making MDN better by working on the weekend
  19. Don’t be afraid to share
  20. Healthy docs are happy docs
  21. Interacting with the MDN developer documentation team
  22. Writing clear documentation requests
  23. What documentation belongs on MDN?
  24. Five-word movie review: “The Lego Movie”
  25. Getting on the developer documentation team’s radar
  26. Topic curation on MDN: Inventory and evaluate
  27. Content curation: Topic area curators for MDN
  28. 2014: The year of content
  29. First five “paper cuts” of 2014
  30. Ramping up for Dev Docs in 2014!

2013 43

  1. 5-word movie review: “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
  2. Kuma update: December 13, 2013
  3. A brand-new MDN design to make making the Web better better
  4. Five-word movie review: “Moon”
  5. Five word movie review: “Sunshine”
  6. Five word movie review: “Hanna”
  7. 5-word movie review: “42”
  8. 5 word movie review: “Man of Steel”
  9. Kuma update: November 12, 2013
  10. Kuma update: November 8, 2013
  11. Kuma update: November 5, 2013
  12. Five word movie review: Europa Report
  13. Kuma status report: November 1, 2013
  14. Kuma status report: October 30, 2013
  15. Kuma status update: October 25, 2013
  16. Your work week and the MDN writing team
  17. Peripheral neuropathy and me
  18. Kuma status report: October 21, 2013
  19. Five word movie review: “Gravity”
  20. Life, pain, and not knowing…
  21. Look out! MDN doc sprint this weekend!
  22. OK-Writer 1.4 for Mac OS X released
  23. Documentation reviews in a snap on MDN
  24. Vancouver documentation sprint recap
  25. Sprintime in Vancouver
  26. MDN platform (Kuma) news
  27. Mozilla Developer Network docs team news
  28. Kuma updates: March 19 edition
  29. Kuma update: February 28, 2012
  30. Kuma update watch: Valentine’s Day edition
  31. Helping kids: Pride and OK-Writer
  32. Kuma update: Malay locale added
  33. Requesting developer documentation, the easy way
  34. MDN: Editing translations of moved pages has been fixed
  35. Five word movie review: Looper
  36. Kuma update: January 22, 2013
  37. Kuma update: January 16, 2013
  38. Kuma update: January 10, 2013
  39. Kuma update: January 9, 2013
  40. Kuma update: January 8, 2012
  41. The art of not getting involved
  42. Kuma update: January 3, 2012
  43. My kingdom for calendar sync that works

2012 96

  1. Five-word movie review: Skyfall
  2. Five-word movie review: Lincoln
  3. Love Firefox? Love writing? Read on!
  4. Kuma update: December 12, 2012
  5. Using the MDN revision dashboard
  6. Kuma update: December 5, 2012 (#2)
  7. Kuma update: December 4, 2012
  8. Want to make MDN better but not much of a writer?
  9. Kuma update: November 30, 2012
  10. Kuma update: November 28, 2012
  11. Kuma update: November 20, 2012
  12. Kuma update: November 15, 2012
  13. MDN virtual doc sprint starting November 30!
  14. Kuma update: November 14, 2012
  15. Kuma update: November 13, 2012
  16. Slow but steady wins the race?
  17. Kuma update: November 8, 2012
  18. Kuma update: November 7, 2012
  19. Kuma update: November 1, 2012
  20. Kuma update: October 26, 2012
  21. The MDN event reference, at last
  22. If MDN search isn’t working for you…
  23. Kuma update: October 11, 2012
  24. Kuma update: October 10, 2012
  25. Welcoming WebPlatform.org
  26. Proposed new documentation process for Mozilla
  27. Help us find subject-matter experts!
  28. An answer at last
  29. Kuma update: September 20, 2012
  30. A thought experiment about the development of civilization
  31. It’s 2012! Where are the home photo hub solutions?
  32. Kuma update: September 6, 2012
  33. Documentation processes in the busy world of Mozilla
  34. Five word movie review: “The Dark Knight Rises”
  35. Kuma update: September 4, 2012
  36. Kuma update: August 29, 2012
  37. Kuma update: August 24, 2012 (#2)
  38. Kuma update: August 24, 2012
  39. Kuma update: August 22, 2012
  40. Kuma update: August 21, 2012
  41. MDN: Today’s new update to the Kuma wiki
  42. MDN development plans
  43. MDN: Wiki software updated on August 14th
  44. MDN: Compatibility tables, templates, and you
  45. MDN: Creating complex notes and warnings
  46. Kuma: Cool URL tricks
  47. Introduction to Kuma: Templates and scripts
  48. Wiki system update for MDN: The time has come at last!
  49. MDN editing returns!
  50. Fisl13
  51. Five word movie review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  52. MDN: Site edits disabled for now
  53. Kuma editing “soft launch” held off until July 9
  54. Kuma: The new editing experience
  55. Kuma: What’s in it for me, anyway?
  56. MDN: The Kuma switch begins on July 5th!
  57. Help us convert templates to KumaScript!
  58. MDN: Change is coming!
  59. 5-word movie review: Prometheus
  60. Kuma wiki test days: June 14-24!
  61. Kuma: coming soon to an MDN near you!
  62. MDN pro tip: Don’t delete —obsolete!
  63. Setting up a small team git server on OS X
  64. Five word movie review: The Avengers
  65. MDN server migration won’t shut us down after all!
  66. MDN will be offline for a few hours tomorrow
  67. WTB Mac developer for Firefox!
  68. Doc sprint victory!
  69. Wiki Wednesday: April 18, 2012
  70. Edit Source: My extension unleashed
  71. Kilimanjaro and its impact on documentation
  72. Documenting the important stuff first
  73. Integrating real-world samples with documentation
  74. Topic drivers for MDN documentation
  75. Looking for a writing contractor for events documentation!
  76. Wiki Wednesday: February 22, 2012
  77. Re-prioritizing developer documentation
  78. Five word movie review: Star Wars Episode I 3D
  79. Wiki Wednesday: February 8, 2012
  80. MDN wiki status report
  81. A writer’s inspiration: The English language
  82. A writer’s inspiration: Doug Fulton
  83. Wiki Wednesday: January 25, 2012
  84. A writer’s inspiration: The designers of that game
  85. A writer’s inspiration: Morgan Freeman
  86. A writer’s inspiration: Mom and Dad
  87. Reorganizing MDN documentation
  88. Documentation planning: Improving our references
  89. Documentation: The Kuma migration and beyond
  90. Documentation: Finding and reaching our users
  91. Thinking about documentation automation
  92. Documentation and Jetpack
  93. Documentation team planning: Writing about BrowserID
  94. Documentation team planning: Doc sprints
  95. Wiki Wednesday: January 11, 2012
  96. Firefox 10 documentation progress

2011 88

  1. Wiki Wednesday: December 30, 2011
  2. Five word movie review: The Muppets
  3. Wiki Wednesday: December 14, 2011
  4. Documentation process changes
  5. I finally visted the Knoxville Zoo!
  6. Wiki Wednesday: November 30, 2011
  7. Welcome to Mozilla, Jean-Yves Perrier!
  8. Helping people when content isn’t there
  9. Wiki Wednesday: November 16, 2011
  10. MDN for WebKit writers
  11. Getting your changes documented
  12. Documentation of the open web should be for everybody
  13. Wiki Wednesday: November 2 2011
  14. Wiki Wednesday: October 26, 2011
  15. Wiki Wednesday: October 19, 2011
  16. How I got involved with Mozilla
  17. Wiki Wednesday: October 12, 2011
  18. Complications
  19. Wiki Wednesday: October 5, 2011
  20. No words
  21. Wiki Wednesday: September 21, 2011
  22. How’s devmo?
  23. Wiki Wednesday: September 14, 2011
  24. devmo: status report full of goodness
  25. Wiki Wednesday: September 7, 2011
  26. MDC status update for today
  27. Mozilla Documentation Center upgrade notes
  28. Wiki Wednesday: August 31, 2011
  29. MDC wiki upgrade status report
  30. Wiki Wednesday: August 24, 2011
  31. Wiki Wednesday: August 17, 2011
  32. Wiki Wednesday: August 10, 2011
  33. Seo
  34. Dreamspace
  35. Five word movie review: Cowboys & Aliens
  36. Five word movie review: Captain America
  37. Firefox 6 docs: done (for a flexible definition of “done”)
  38. Wiki Wednesday: August 3, 2011
  39. Wiki Wednesday: July 13, 2011
  40. Wiki Wednesday: June 22, 2011
  41. Wiki Wednesday: June 15, 2011
  42. Wiki Wednesday: June 8, 2011
  43. Wiki Wednesday: June 1, 2011
  44. Wiki Wednesday: May 25, 2011
  45. STC Summit
  46. Wiki Wednesday: May 11, 2011
  47. Installing Bugzilla on Mac OS X Server 10.6
  48. Wiki Wednesday: May 4, 2011
  49. The Sheppy Report: Week of April 25
  50. Wiki Wednesday: April 27, 2011
  51. Loss
  52. Wiki Wednesday: April 20, 2011
  53. The Sheppy Report: Week of April 10
  54. An inadvertent head-start
  55. Firefox 5 writers: Get on the Aurora train
  56. Wiki Wednesday: April 13, 2011
  57. Firefox 5 documentation begins!
  58. All-hands fallout
  59. Wiki Wednesday: April 6, 2011
  60. The Sheppy Report: Week of March 28
  61. Wiki Wednesday: March 30, 2011
  62. The Sheppy Report: Week of March 21
  63. Five word movie review: Battle: Los Angeles
  64. Wiki Wednesday: March 23, 2011
  65. The Sheppy Report: Week of March 14
  66. Wiki Wednesday: March 16, 2011
  67. State of the documentation: Firefox 4 RC edition
  68. The Sheppy Report: Week of March 7
  69. Wiki Wednesday: March 9, 2011
  70. Browser compatibility and documentation planning
  71. The Sheppy Report: Week of February 28
  72. Wiki Wednesday: March 2, 2011
  73. Wiki Wednesday: February 23, 2011
  74. Wiki Wednesday: February 16, 2011
  75. A personal note
  76. The Sheppy Report: Week of February 7
  77. Wiki Wednesday: February 9, 2011
  78. About Wiki Wednesdays
  79. The Sheppy Report: Week of January 31
  80. The Sheppy Report: Week of January 24
  81. Documentation sprint starts tomorrow!
  82. The Sheppy Report: Week of January 17
  83. Virtual documentation sprint!
  84. The Sheppy Report: Week of January 10
  85. The Sheppy Report: Week of January 3
  86. MDC errors fixed
  87. Ignore the errors, please
  88. The Sheppy Report: Week of December 27

2010 65

  1. The Sheppy Report: Week of December 20
  2. The Sheppy Report: Week of December 13
  3. The Sheppy Report: Week of November 22
  4. The Sheppy Report: Week of November 15
  5. New Mozilla Doc Center theme is live!
  6. Documentation bug prioritization
  7. The Sheppy Report: Week of November 8
  8. The Sheppy Report: Week of November 1
  9. The Sheppy Report: Week of October 25
  10. XUL Tutorial: Found and restored!
  11. XUL Tutorial MIA
  12. Introducing the future look of MDC
  13. The Sheppy Report: Week of October 18
  14. New Interface Reference templates!
  15. The Sheppy Report: Week of October 10
  16. Content Security Policy documentation in progress
  17. The Sheppy Report: Week of October 4
  18. The Sheppy Report: Week of September 27
  19. The Sheppy Report: Week of September 20
  20. The Sheppy Report: Week of September 13
  21. The Sheppy Report: Week of September 6
  22. The Sheppy Report: Week of August 30
  23. The Sheppy Report: Week of August 22
  24. The Sheppy Report: Week of August 15
  25. Firefox 4 documentation
  26. Why MDC search is broken
  27. Documentation in the age of the Add-ons Builder
  28. To upgrade or not to upgrade?
  29. MDC performance
  30. Yet another MDC progress report
  31. Firefox 4 documentation in progress!
  32. More on the RSS feed performance issue on MDC
  33. MDC: RSS feeds temporarily disabled
  34. MDC post-upgrade report
  35. MDC upgrade installed…
  36. Another MDC status report
  37. MDC status report
  38. More thoughts on iPad
  39. Thoughts on my iPad
  40. Stating the obvious
  41. The MDC to MDN transition begins
  42. MDC search working again
  43. js-ctypes, Mac OSX, and iPhoto
  44. You’re right, it’s broken
  45. MDC upgrade situation
  46. MDC upgrade coming tonight
  47. And I’m Back
  48. Recovery
  49. Oh, yeah, I’m home…
  50. Coming soon to a MindTouch near you…
  51. js-ctypes win
  52. Working on something new
  53. Down time
  54. It’s official…
  55. More information but still waiting…
  56. MDC template improvements
  57. Waiting…
  58. Oh no, it’s almost Friday…
  59. On ad blocking
  60. MDC upgrade progress report
  61. Want to make the Web a better place?
  62. CSS transitions in Gecko
  63. MDC upgrade status report
  64. What would make MDC easier for you to use?
  65. Bringing kick-ass graphics to the web in 3D

2009 117

  1. Busy, busy, busy…
  2. Epic food fail
  3. MDC account signups re-enabled
  4. Going places
  5. Another MDC status update
  6. MDC reliability update
  7. MDC status report
  8. Humbug
  9. Another nice touch
  10. Interwiki links and you
  11. Device orientation documentation
  12. Documentation works-in-progress
  13. More Firefox 3.6 documentation
  14. MDC user registration disabled for now
  15. Health fail
  16. New documentation updates
  17. MDC upgrade to MindTouch 9.08 scheduled
  18. Note about writing and the Bugzilla whiteboard
  19. Page history change on MDC
  20. Building Mozilla on Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”)
  21. MDC status report
  22. Down for the count
  23. MDC glitches explained
  24. Another minor — but nice — MDC tweak
  25. Unit testing MDC
  26. MDC back-end work continues!
  27. The key to getting developer docs updated
  28. Mozilla Developer Center upgrade to MindTouch 2009 9.02.4 scheduled
  29. Editing definition lists gets (a little) easier on MDC
  30. Don’t forget your hard hat…
  31. Fingers crossed, etc.
  32. Another minor usability tweak to MDC
  33. Happy Firefox 3.5 release day!
  34. Mindtouch “Minneopa” planning and Mozilla
  35. A technical writer’s place in the world
  36. Hack it, baby!
  37. More tweaks to Mozilla Developer Center
  38. Three things I saw…
  39. More subtle changes on MDC
  40. More new features on MDC
  41. MDC gets more helpful
  42. MDC upgraded to MindTouch 2009 9.02.2
  43. Data roundabout
  44. Coda goodness for less
  45. Movin’ on up
  46. Documenting ECMAScript 5 in Mozilla
  47. MDC upgrade pushed back slightly
  48. Larry “the Spoiler King”
  49. MindTouch 2009 progress report
  50. Little visitor
  51. Miracle on Mars
  52. Near miss
  53. Mouse gesture events now documented
  54. Touch typing
  55. Why we’re waiting for MindTouch 2009 9.02.2
  56. Oops – I got ahead of myself a bit!
  57. MDC upgrade to MindTouch 2009 scheduled
  58. New MDC content: Pixel manipulation with canvas
  59. Thoughts on automated documentation generation
  60. Five word movie review: Star Trek
  61. Productivity slowly returning
  62. Features for users
  63. Travel day and more
  64. Reverting the new user page
  65. New MDC menus rolled out
  66. About Tweetie for Mac
  67. Slight MDC upgrade delay
  68. Interesting side-effects
  69. Thunderbird developer documentation getting a kick-start
  70. More MDC cleanup
  71. Improving MDC
  72. Handy new templates for MDC
  73. Even the wildlife takes bad times hard
  74. Mozilla Developer Center pro tip: Search queries
  75. Bonjour and Firefox
  76. MDC infrastructure work
  77. Missing content? Let us know!
  78. The proposed MDC menu hierarchy
  79. A bigger-than-expected project
  80. More MDC mockups
  81. New mockup: Supported technologies
  82. More MDC mockups
  83. Redesigning MDC’s main page
  84. Firefox addons developer guide
  85. MDC skin changes on the way
  86. Another Thunderbird experiment
  87. Manipulating video using canvas
  88. Mindtouch Deki Lyons preview 2
  89. Mission accomplished?
  90. Firefox documentation update
  91. Welcome to the city in the cloud
  92. I wanna write all night long
  93. Locating DOM elements using selectors
  94. Color correction documentation
  95. Late nights and documentation
  96. How the automatic IRC channels feature in MDC works
  97. Updated articles for Firefox 3.1
  98. Documentation updates today
  99. IRC links: now working
  100. Deki Lyons — rumination and negotiation
  101. Preparing for Mindtouch Deki “Lyons”
  102. Schedule shift
  103. IRC links on the way
  104. Coming soon: IRC links
  105. The Internet is a series of tabs
  106. California, here I come…
  107. More news on the Deki front
  108. New MDC article on workers
  109. Seven little things…
  110. Flurry of activity on the Deki front
  111. More offline resource documentation
  112. Some reference documentation for offline resources
  113. Birthday Fun
  114. Updated documentation for offline resources now available
  115. Geolocation documentation updated
  116. MDC stuff and notes
  117. Deki upgrade, coming soon to an MDC near you…

2008 171

  1. Rest in peace, “Happy Monster”
  2. It’s a new car!
  3. Checking out Thunderbird 3
  4. New Firefox 3.1 related content on MDC
  5. ABC meme
  6. More documentation for Firefox 3.1
  7. Element traversal API documented
  8. DOM workers: game on!
  9. Heads-up on DOM workers
  10. MDC status report
  11. Private browsing and extensions
  12. Reactions
  13. The future of article management
  14. Diffing documentation
  15. Even more updated reference documents
  16. Miscellaneous documentation updates
  17. MDC updates and such
  18. More on asyncrhonous storage
  19. Storage documentation updates
  20. Tools that make me say “yay!”
  21. More audio and video docs
  22. XMLHttpRequest progress events
  23. Overhauling the XMLHttpRequest documentation
  24. @font-face
  25. NodeIterator documentation kinda-sorta done
  26. Firefox 3.1 documentation: the march continues
  27. A day of twiddling
  28. Geolocation goodness
  29. Special bonus: video element documentation
  30. The HTML 5 audio element: Now documented
  31. Firefox 3.1 documentation: Media queries
  32. CSS transforms documented for Firefox 3.1
  33. MindTouch Deki roadmap for “Lyons” posted
  34. Five word movie review: Cloverfield
  35. HTML 5 canvas text and shadows documented
  36. Text nodes!
  37. Per-language “what’s new” feeds on MDC
  38. Firefox 3.1 documentation update
  39. Vacation under way
  40. A Deki wish list update
  41. MDC to be upgraded tonight
  42. My Wikis for Software Engineering paper
  43. Documenting Firefox 3.1
  44. Space and Politics
  45. Yet another MDC progress report
  46. MDC: things to do and things done
  47. Five word movie review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  48. Ubiquity commands for MDC
  49. More fixes on MDC
  50. MDC tweaking continues
  51. When will I ever learn?
  52. More goings-on at MDC
  53. Weekend dabbling at MDC
  54. More MDC progress, and plans going forward
  55. Changes we need in Deki
  56. MDC: Default language for new pages fixed
  57. Devnews CSS fixed
  58. MDC relaunch to-do list
  59. MDC on Deki now alive!
  60. MDC relaunch in progress
  61. Database conversion in progress
  62. Let the transition begin!
  63. MDC relaunch delay
  64. MDC about to switch to read-only for a while
  65. Final testing underway
  66. Status of the update installed yesterday/today
  67. New Deki code installed
  68. Another MDC relaunch status report
  69. Another import on the way
  70. MDC relaunch plans
  71. Deki MDC toolbar updated
  72. Progress on the MDC relaunch
  73. Moments that define what life’s all about
  74. MDC launch date set
  75. So ya wanna go home, do ya?
  76. Thunderbird goodness
  77. Tweaking the new MDC
  78. iPhone programming
  79. Summit 2008
  80. Note to self
  81. The Deki transition: an ongoing march toward victory
  82. Hooked on iPhonics
  83. The iPhone cometh
  84. New MDC feedback
  85. Give the new MDC a test drive!
  86. Slow but steady wins the race
  87. WikiSym 2008
  88. MDC goings-on
  89. Is it possible?
  90. Joy
  91. The Mozilla Developer Resource Kit
  92. Getting it right the first time
  93. DSL fail
  94. I’ve had it
  95. Eight
  96. The power of open source
  97. So, it’s done, then
  98. Less than an hour to go!
  99. // MDC.wikiEngine = MindTouch->Deki
  100. Charter strikes back
  101. It’ll be installed on Tuesday
  102. So… what next?
  103. Must… wait… a little… longer…
  104. iPhone madness
  105. Successful meetings
  106. Moto
  107. Packing
  108. MDC rollout coming soon
  109. New database
  110. Not just a three-day weekend
  111. So close I can almost taste it
  112. An experiment
  113. Coming up
  114. Quick turnaround
  115. More Deki upgrade progress
  116. Initial thoughts on Google doctype
  117. Documenting Firefox 3 for developers
  118. DreamWeaver?
  119. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The sixth way.
  120. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The fifth way.
  121. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The fourth way.
  122. The new MDC: A preview
  123. Deki status
  124. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The third way.
  125. Pah, I say! Pah!
  126. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The second way.
  127. A complicated day
  128. Wikis and docs: progress!
  129. Firefox 3: Why do I love thee? The first way.
  130. MDC progress report
  131. Size really does matter!
  132. Exploring the depths of liquid refreshment
  133. Places, everyone
  134. A dry story
  135. Look what the cat dragged in
  136. MDC: The next generation
  137. What next?
  138. Nerdiness survey
  139. The waiting is getting to me
  140. Threading in Gecko 1.9
  141. I am entertained
  142. Of chicken and continents
  143. Alternative style sheets
  144. Offline caching for web applications
  145. A strange feeling
  146. High-def goodness
  147. High-Definition: The saga continues
  148. JSON madness
  149. Big-ticket items
  150. iPhone SDK public beta 2
  151. Documentation priorities
  152. More about the new MDC skin
  153. MDC skinning project begins
  154. Our Deki Wiki update has a code name
  155. So you wanna integrate password saving…
  156. Getting satisfaction from the little things
  157. Documentation, Bugzilla, wikis, and you
  158. “Firebox”
  159. The iPhone SDK: First impression
  160. Wanted: JavaScript/CSS wizard to create MDC skin
  161. Go, go Sophie
  162. Web-based protocol handlers
  163. A “Law & Order” recovery
  164. Slow going
  165. I’m back. Sorta.
  166. Home again
  167. Need docs?
  168. Macworld keynote brain dump
  169. Making documentation more orderly
  170. Approaching downtime
  171. Updating add-ons for Firefox 3: Where do our docs blow?

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  1. Audio-Visual joy
  2. Mmmm… video.
  3. Firefox 3 documentation roundup
  4. The best advice I’ve seen all month
  5. I <3 students
  6. The easy way to Getting Things Done
  7. Getting organized
  8. Friday 5: Photos
  9. What are we measuring here, anyway?
  10. More thoughts about a Deki switch
  11. MDC: Big changes ahead
  12. Oh, nuts!
  13. Friday 5: Slide!
  14. Places
  15. Microformats and Places
  16. Friday 5: Hanging around
  17. Annoying product: Belkin ClearScreen Overlay for iPod touch
  18. Spaces revisited
  19. Spaces, the final frontier…
  20. Lost in transit
  21. Friday 5:
  22. The Leopard has landed
  23. Shedding a little light on Prism
  24. Thank goodness for long laptop power cables
  25. I made it!
  26. Feeling better
  27. Timing is everything
  28. iPodding it
  29. Kicking around ideas for making MDC better
  30. Friday 5: Groups
  31. Five word gadget review: iPod touch
  32. Documentation progress
  33. Friday 5: Last
  34. Friday 5: The Mostest
  35. Hamster update
  36. New theme
  37. Complain to me, baby
  38. Hamster incident
  39. Don’t forget to FSOSS
  40. Working the doc list
  41. Friday 5: Stuffed
  42. Too busy to think
  43. Friday 5: Superlatives
  44. Ranking documentation: Importance
  45. Technical writer seeks conference
  46. Sheppy trivia
  47. Yay, blog fixed
  48. Firefox 3 documentation plan checkup time
  49. Friday 5: Taken
  50. Friday 5: Office supplies
  51. Friday 5: Cost
  52. MDC now running on the cluster
  53. Playing around
  54. Download Manager: Documented at last!
  55. Friday 5: Tired
  56. Site glitches
  57. Repeat after me: “check pwd before rm -rf”
  58. Testing developer-cluster
  59. Help test the cluster-ized, super speedy MDC!
  60. Poll Results: When did you make your last backup?
  61. Backup frustration
  62. Friday 5: After
  63. IDL in BBEdit
  64. Let’s have some meetings!
  65. Friday 5: The more the merrier
  66. Hacking on the MDC wiki
  67. Oh, the humanity!
  68. Sweeeeeet new iMac on the way
  69. The most beautiful thing in the world
  70. Keeping my head down, nose to the grindstone, etc.
  71. This week’s Friday 5
  72. Friday 5 because my friends do it
  73. Terrorism in space?
  74. Positive outlook on the iMac front
  75. iMac insanity
  76. Poll Results: What Firefox 3 feature are you most excited about?
  77. Places please…
  78. This is the image I’ve always had
  79. Happy Birthday, USA
  80. Even in my small town
  81. Localizing MDC: ideas
  82. Developer Day done
  83. Let’s do lunch
  84. Developer Day!
  85. Welcome to Paris
  86. Countdown to beta
  87. iPhone dreamin’… sort of
  88. Paris Developer Day this weekend
  89. Log in, log on, and log out
  90. Safari for Windows – Expected yet not
  91. Unparalleled disaster
  92. Five word movie review: Never Say Never Again
  93. Crazy week ahead
  94. It’s about time!
  95. Five word movie review: Rear Window
  96. Five word movie review: The Sentinel
  97. Poll Results: When do you think you’ll start using Firefox 3?
  98. Firefox 3 excitement in MDC
  99. Movin’ On Up
  100. Five word movie review: Stranger Than Fiction
  101. Well… let’s see if that works
  102. Firefox 3 documentation planning
  103. The coolness of the upgraded MDC wiki
  104. The downside to being an early adopter/bleeding edge type
  105. iMac vs. Productivity
  106. Mozilla Developer Center: Moving forward
  107. Having a gas
  108. MDC upgrade progress continues
  109. MDC upgrade phase one rolled out!
  110. Something I thought was funny…
  111. Gas leak? So what!
  112. MDC upgrade will roll out May 8th
  113. Grammar patrol
  114. Breadcrumbs improved
  115. MDC upgrade phase 1 needs testing
  116. Breadcrumbs and arrivals
  117. We live
  118. The longness of the day
  119. MDC upgrade progress
  120. Flying the croup
  121. Death and taxes. Minus the death.
  122. A little twiddle here…
  123. The joy of reinstalling
  124. iMac attack
  125. Dinner and a show
  126. The most relaxing feeling in the world
  127. MDC upgrade plan shuffle
  128. Playing tag
  129. Good call
  130. California, here I come…
  131. The joy of travel
  132. DevDay all done
  133. Poll Results: Have you ever attended a Mozilla developer event?
  134. DevDay impressions thus far
  135. Let the DevDay begin!
  136. Release notes: a writer’s perspective
  137. A change of pace is so… cleansing!
  138. Cool new templates for updated MDC
  139. Tummy bug vs. MDC: Deathmatch
  140. The good, the bad, and the oh-so-ugly
  141. Post-Upgrade Traumatic Stress Disorder
  142. On stage: Updated MDC (step 1 of n)
  143. Upgrading MDC
  144. Change is good. Really.
  145. Getting tuned in to Firefox 3
  146. Learning curves
  147. Making documentation translation better
  148. Developer day: Coming soon to a Boston near you
  149. Plugin scripting reference migration complete
  150. Migration sensation: Scripting plugins
  151. Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 documentation begins
  152. NSPR Reference migration progress
  153. Yay, Charter! Wait, that’s not right…
  154. “24” surprise
  155. NSPR Reference migration resumes
  156. Fish or cut bait
  157. “24” returns
  158. Sheppy, meet XPCOM. XPCOM, please be gentle.
  159. New headphones
  160. Things that bug me: undereducated kids
  161. Things that bug me: spelling nightmares
  162. Poll Results: iPhone: Funky or junky?
  163. Ay, ay, iPhone
  164. Oh… my… god… so… freaking… tired…
  165. Hi John
  166. Working the to-do list
  167. Happy Holidays

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  1. Merry Christmas
  2. Newbie mistake
  3. Exi-extensionalism
  4. Charter strikes again
  5. The sound of silence
  6. Icky
  7. Adventures in Thanksgiving
  8. The wonders of modern travel
  9. Help us help you
  10. Everything old is new again
  11. Television madness
  12. Sleep, interrupted
  13. My documentation presentation online
  14. Poll Results: Have you voted more than once in this poll?
  15. Conference completed
  16. Presentation day
  17. The sound of silence
  18. Docs, docs, docs, docs…
  19. Firefox intervention
  20. Good timing
  21. Help the poor writers out
  22. So… now what?
  23. Poll Results: In which decade did you first use a computer?
  24. Gas problem
  25. Now that’s a camera!
  26. Thunderbird doc effort
  27. Thunderbird documentation to-do list
  28. Moving On
  29. Relocation
  30. TB experiment: all done
  31. TB experiment: bugs, bugs, bugs
  32. TB experiment: another day, another quirk
  33. TB experiment: printing
  34. TB experiment: window overload
  35. Poll Results: What’s your laptop cursor control?
  36. TB experiment: The little things add up
  37. TB experiment: undon’t
  38. TB experiment: the little things
  39. TB experiment: Inbox downloaded
  40. TB experiment: Adding an account
  41. TB experiment: First launch
  42. The great Thunderbird experiment
  43. Vive la différence
  44. I want my iTV
  45. What’s up, docs?
  46. Destructuring assignment, part X
  47. Firefox 2 developer doc status
  48. Freefalling (or: taking one for the team)
  49. Proud owner of a five-year-old car
  50. Conquering Firefox 2 developer docs
  51. Feed access fun
  52. Thematic explosion
  53. Better living through code
  54. The theme of the day…
  55. Home again
  56. It’s a wonderful world
  57. Road Trip!
  58. Relaxation station
  59. What’s Sheppy doing, anyway?
  60. All the little things add up
  61. A slow and painful recovery
  62. Backup hell
  63. Vile scum attack!
  64. Home Again
  65. Vacation, baby!
  66. Passport party
  67. Firefox 2 beta 1 and documentation
  68. Beta 1 approacheth
  69. Meetings
  70. Road trip!
  71. Gearing up for heading out
  72. No news is good news
  73. Search suggestions are cool
  74. Mmmm… more words
  75. Life returns to normal
  76. Watch out, there’s a ping coming!
  77. One monitor blues
  78. Firefox 2 docs underway
  79. Will they or won’t they?
  80. The Charter Saga: Week Nine
  81. Thank you
  82. Par for the course
  83. Cable, JavaScript, and Firefox 2
  84. Destructuring assignment, part one
  85. Online in fits and starts
  86. That loud sucking sound you hear…
  87. One week
  88. Mmmm… JavaScript
  89. A picture that’s worth a thousand words
  90. Connection logging
  91. Code v. editing
  92. The Pearl
  93. Edging toward postality
  94. Baby steps
  95. Testing my connection
  96. JavaScript 1.7
  97. I hate Charter Communications
  98. Testing… is this thing on?
  99. Fun and more fun
  100. Incident in the Red Lobster parking lot
  101. Michael, Michael, Michael…
  102. Woe is cable
  103. Cable progress
  104. Samples finally updated
  105. I got a fever…
  106. Twiddle this and twiddle that
  107. Worst voiceover ever?
  108. Long day ahead
  109. Extension localization sample posted
  110. Cable fixed? Negatory.
  111. Slow motion
  112. Cable oddity
  113. Daddy who?
  114. Delays courtesy of Charter Communications
  115. Next revised article & sample posted
  116. Revised sample
  117. Connegativity
  118. A dog’s life
  119. One of those mornings…
  120. Preferences and menus
  121. Extensions
  122. Fear not the tech writer
  123. Various geeky things
  124. Another sample
  125. Oh, the weather outside is frightful…
  126. The Macintosh XPerience
  127. Cable bliss at long last!
  128. Two stooges
  129. Dave
  130. Cable neverland
  131. Broadband-free zone
  132. Happiness is new hardware
  133. A good first effort
  134. Say what, Evelyn?
  135. Mmm… code…
  136. Lostathon
  137. Why is it…?
  138. What happens when bits get rambunctious?