I’m still learning how to get the most out of my system set-up. Since I’ve recently become an Editor for AMO, I’ve started a list of add-ons that are of interest or could be useful to me. Here’s the list so far, in no particular order:

• GTDinbox (gmail functionality booster)
• GButts (google services buttons – and a handy reminder to blog more often)
• Firefox Accessibility Extension
• Regular Expressions tester
• Web Developer Tools – Finally updated for Firefox 3!
• BugMeNot (sign into sites with user submitted passord/username)

That last one, BugMeNot, really impressed me because it’s such a great idea. I complain all the time about how many times I need to create a user account with a site I may never visit again, or a site to whom I do not want to provide my information. BugMeNot is a simple idea that has a huge impact. I get to share the username/password of “nobody” with everybody.

As well as add-ons, I’ve installed Quicksilver
so that I can do more from the keyboard. I don’t know why I never looked into this before but apparently you can go to the spotlight search with command + space…nice to know. Quicksilver is spotlight on steroids though, and I’m looking forward to exploring the capabilities. The only glitch I had on starting up was that the hotkey wasn’t working how I thought it should. In the end, I set my preference for hotkey to modifier activation only, single, control. To pull up Quicksilver I just tap the control key twice. Perfect.

The last thing is BBEdit – I’m still trying to find a text editor that I feel comfortable with. For some reason XCode scares me…perhaps this summer I will try it again. My favourite editor on the PC was Crimson, which sadly has no Mac support. BBEdit looks like it’s got everything I liked about Crimson, namely the ability to work on files over FTP/SFTP. This morning when I was working on a patch for tinder-config.pl though, it did some weird things to line breaks. So I’ll have to check the preferences more closely before I use it for another patch.

Time to go fix that tinder-config.pl patch.

On the edge of my seat as I wait to see if my patch to tinder-config.pl will be checked in and a source indexed build will come down the pipe. I just tweaked the one line addition with double \ in the file path. Small things hold up big things…

Soon I will be testing the nightlies, grabbing screenshots and putting together my demo/docs.

So I am still waiting for the install of Windbg. The timing is kind of terrible because everyone’s all a flutter with Firefox 3 and I’m twiddling my thumbs a bit. As I can’t test the source server from the user end yet, I must turn my attention to documentation and also to planning my final “knock your socks off” demo. Instead of 2 demos which would be ridiculous in the short amount of time that is left, I will do one super demo where lots of people (you dear readers?) will come and test out the source indexed builds. This should happen in the week before exams, more info to come soon. If anyone is looking for contrib points (is that like karma?) please come to the demo.