http://mcc.id.au Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:46:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't officially been a student since March last year, when my candidature lapsed; I'm a part-time research assistant now. Over the last 12 months I technically haven't been allowed to stay in the shared postgrads office, but Kim somehow had managed to organise for me to stay in ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2009/03/moved On Friday night, Erik, Doug, Jonathan, Anthony and I were at Mortar and Pestle, a Thai restaurant in Manly, where I had a somewhat disappointing red curry after waiting for about 45 minutes to get a table. Since we only realised that this place was BYO after sitting down, ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2009/02/firebox Last week, the SVG Working Group held our annual Sydney face-to-face meeting hosted by CiSRA. This was the first F2F with a representative from Mozilla attending. It's encouraging to have a second major browser implementor actively participating now! Below is a summary of the discussions surrounding the major topics that ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2009/02/manly A couple of months ago I tested the behaviour of indexing HTMLCollection objects. I've moved the results of the tests to a more permanent URL. The tests themselves aren't in a particularly useful form at the moment, needing various commenting and uncommenting to obtain results for different subtests. ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2009/01/testing-htmlcollection-behaviour It might sound trite, but the end of a year always creeps up on me quickly. Was it really a year ago that we read about the latest declassified Australian government documents, or that I was predicting a mere six more months until my thesis submission? Seems like ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2008/12/end-of-another-year I'm in Nürnberg, Germany for the SVG working group meeting, which just finished last night. I have to say (without trying to sound too self-congratulatory) that we really put in a lot of effort, finishing way into the evening on some days, with encouraging results that will stand us ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2008/08/nuremberg (Ultimately from here.) jet:~ $ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}' | sort -rn | head 8906 ls 8441 cd 5230 vi 3902 date 3671 fg 1379 svn 1236 make 1143 ssh ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2008/04/history-meme The last few days have been neck-and-neck, but finally the latest nightly build of WebKit gets 100/100 on the Acid3 test, just beating out Opera. While Opera had a screenshot of an internal build getting 100 yesterday, WebKit's is the first publicly available build that gets 100. Not that it ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2008/03/webkit-gets-100-on-acid3 Finally I have got around to re-jigging my site a bit. I gave up on the idea of writing a Django-based backend myself due to lack of time, and have ended up using WordPress. It seems OK so far, although not knowing any PHP it's taken me a ... http://mcc.id.au/blog/2008/03/hi-again