I was intrigued to read about a new search engine, cuil.com, which is being launched by former Google employees. So I tried it out by searching for XULRunner. The top hits were:

I’m going to be at OSCON next week. Taras and I will be hosting a BoF session on using automatic analysis and rewriting tools for open-source projects on Wednesday evening. You’re welcome to come and learn about our tools, watch demos, or just just heckle and meet!

I’ve been to OSCON once before. I got a chance to meet people in person I only knew via email, and also meet some new people who had read my blog or otherwise knew of me. It was a blast. I hope to meet even more people this time around. Many of the official sessions don’t look that exciting to me, so I might spend a decent amount of time at OSCamp or just talking to interesting people. If you’d like to meet me and can’t make the BoF session, you can probably catch me at the Mozilla booth.

I am a relative newcomer to python, and have been blown away by the flexibility of some operations in Python. The string-formatting operator, %, is really wonderful and flexible. This is my attempt at implementing something similar in JavaScript.

Obviously, you can’t create a new operator in JavaScript, and in addition you can’t use % as a JavaScript identifier. So I went for the next-best thing: