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Hitting a Sour Note

By ali ali Feb 28, 2009 2:00 am
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Bird Beta superfans, We’ve hit a snag in the Hendrix release — our 1.1b1 and 1.1b2 builds are causing crashes for some of you and we don’t know why.  We’re launching an all-talons-out bird assault on this thing to get it fixed before the final release. Here’s how it’s going to go down and what [...]

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Songbird path to Agility – Part I

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jun 25, 2008 11:05 am
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This is the first post of a 3 part series presenting our experience moving Songbird development to an Agile process. Drowning in the waterfall Up until version 0.3, Songbird development had been following a fairly traditional waterfall model. Realizing the ambitious vision of building both a platform and a desktop media player has presented many [...]

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Database Schema Changes in Nightly (We broke your sh*t)

By steve steve Apr 4, 2008 6:45 pm
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Heads-up to folks who download nightlies or build from trunk! I just landed bug 8247 which included a change to our library database schema. It turns out using 36 character strings instead of integers as foreign keys bloats the size of your database and generally slows things down. This fix reduces our library database size [...]

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-moz-border-radius clips background images now. Yay!

By komi komi Mar 14, 2008 6:02 pm
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I just found out that MozBug 24998 (background images spill beyond rounded borders / -moz-border-radius) was fixed late last year. Nice! Here’s a screenshot of a quick demo – it uses HTML but the same can be done in XUL. See how the corners of the background image don’t show through the edges of the [...]

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