Date September 2008

Got eggs? We’re hiring.

By roblord roblord Sep 29, 2008 11:41 am
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We, Pioneers of the Inevitable, are hiring passionate, talented people to join our bustling team of bird builders.  Check the updated jobs page for Mozilla engineer, product manager, visual designer, interaction designer and front-end Web developer listings. Chirp!

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more mashiness than a mountain of monkeys

By stevel stevel Sep 26, 2008 12:49 pm
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We’ve been working on improving mashTape for the upcoming Genesis release.  Originally, mashTape was sort of thrown together haphazardly as an “extra-time” project… we finally got some time to give it some true and proper love, and well… it shows.  The new mashTape has been completely re-written from the ground up to be more extensible [...]

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Songbirdteam Tweets for the week of 2008-09-21

By songbirdteam songbirdteam Sep 21, 2008 11:59 pm
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Ubuntu users, check the Warm Pastels (Gonzo) feather: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1330 #

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Mozilla Toronto Developer Day

By stevel stevel Sep 16, 2008 10:47 am
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I’ve been at Seneca College for the Mozilla Toronto Developer Day yesterday and today for some great unconference-y style talks and hacking. Monday, otherwise known as “The Mark Finkle Speaking Marathon” (I believe he gave 4 talks!), started out with mfinkle opening up and introducing the Developer Day topics and schedule and then launching into [...]

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More Faster

By Matt Matt Sep 15, 2008 12:28 pm
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Large library performance is a major theme this release, and the first few fixes are in: On my Mac Pro I’m seeing a 45% improvement over 0.7 when importing 10,000 tracks from a local folder. The win came mostly from removing the boring/terrifying “Identifying and Removing Duplicates” phase of the media import process. This phase [...]

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