I just can’t describe how happy I am now! My newest extension, Tagmarks, which I created and submitted to the Extend Firefox 3 contest, is one of the winners of the contest!

Tagmarks

Today was the qualification round of Google Code Jam 2008. This year Google remodelled the contest format, moving from the traditional competition arenas where you code using some of the pre-specified languages (usually C++/Java/Python/VB) directly into a window and the code is compiled and run server-side, to a more open format where you just download an input file and submit the output of your program. I liked this change very much, because it brings two good advantages for the competitors: first, you can use the editors, environment and programming tools that you’re most comfortable with; second, you can use any programming language that you want (as long as its freely available). This is definitely cool because if, for example, some complex math problem appears, one could even open some free math environment like Sage or Scilab to solve some integrals or matrix equations.

Firefox 3 is coming

Firefox 3 is set to be released very soon! To celebrate it, I did a small Firefox extension to count the time until Firefox is released and count the time left during the Download day! It will display a nice countdown on the toolbar, and a more detailed one at the status bar. There are some screenshots in the project page. Here is one of them:

I’ve also put a badge on the sidebar of the blog with a blog countdown made by the guys at Mozilla Hispano. It looks awesome and I’ve heard it will start featuring Firefox 3 new features after it is launched! I’ll keep an eye on it, sounds amazing!

Both of these countdowns were featured at the Mozilla blog! My add-on was already downloaded 450 times. So cool!

Also, check it this very nice word cloud:

Hello Posterous, are you up?When I finally get a new router and some free time to come back to the internet, first day the DSL is down, next day twitter + bloglines down...I hope gmail stays cool tomorrow! and i'm back to posting the interesting stuff I find around.Felipe.

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I loved this videoThe "darth vader" look is scary, but everything looks extremely cool

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Very nice test, check if you can sort the 360° of the color hue palette.The test is very nice, although the results are disappointing. The result is a simple result that doesn't tell you anything, and there is no exact average displayed so you know how well you did. The number of mistakes would be hard to count if they were more than simple swaps, but anyway, a little more info could be better =) I took the screenshot of my test and did my own verification: got a 11 result in the test which meant 3 swaps for me.Attaching the result, I hope every color is preserved in the file.

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