Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
While doing various kinds of marketing research around Mozilla development, I've noticed a disturbing trend, which is probably well-known to most of you: Mozillians Earning A Living Somehow (MEALS) often seem to resort to code forks. In the mailnews area, we have Spicebird and Postbox. I'm less familiar with the ...
Posted in Extensions, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging | 7 Comments »
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
One of the interesting applications of automatic categorization of message items is the categorization of feed postings. Feed aggregations like Planet Mozilla often have many more posts than is convenient for most people to keep up with. How do you decide what to read, and what to skip?
The bayesian classifier ...
Posted in Extensions, Planet Mozilla, Planet MozillaMessaging, TaQuilla | 6 Comments »
Friday, March 6th, 2009
I've now posted my inherited folder property bug for checkin, so I thought it would be a good time to describe this method.
There are often situations in the mailnews code where some attribute of a folder is set, and you have to decide whether this is a global, per-server, per-folder ...
Posted in Mailnews development, Planet MozillaMessaging | 4 Comments »