Art's Thoughts

Earlier this morning I uploaded a beta version of NAMFox that builds upon what I've already delivered in the 1.6.3 release. I'm trying out something new here by releasing beta versions every week (as long as there is some new feature or bug fix available) to see if it helps encourage you guys to give feedback on new features so I can make them as good as possible before releasing to the public.

Of course, any beta release is optional to download. But if you do download a beta, then Firefox will always let you know when there are beta updates available every week. You can provide feedback in the same way you can today--posting threads in the appropriate NAMFox forum to report bugs or make suggestions.

The first beta release is out now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3995/versions/?page=1#version-1.6.3.75beta You can read the release notes at the link above. Enjoy!
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I've uploaded NAMFox 1.6.3 to the Mozilla Add-Ons site (not yet reviewed). Again, there are only a few bug fixes, including resolving the issues around Quick Edit that recent changes in Neoseeker caused. New features should be coming in the next version.

Also, this version supports Firefox 4.0 Beta 1. I know Beta 2 is now out, and if you want to disable Firefox's compatibility check and try it that's fine. However, I believe there are breaking changes which will cause it not to work. I'll keep working on this over the next couple of days.

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Bug Fixes

1. Quick edit doesn't interpret sup and sub tags correctly
2. Memory leak in AutoComplete

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Thanks,
Art
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I've uploaded NAMFox 1.6.2 to the Mozilla Add-Ons site. There's just a few bug fixes in this one—nothing too fancy.

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Bug Fixes

1. Quick reply double posts
2. Signature disappears after quick edit
3. Slow performance using Neoseeker when using NAMFox and your account name has a space in it.

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Note that if your user name does have a space in it I would recommend you download this new version if you are currently using NAMFox today. Previous versions of NAMFox would cause a heavy load on the Neoseeker servers for those of you with spaces in your name, so you may have experienced some slowness or hiccups with your Internet connection. If that's the case you should see things speed up a bit with this new release.

Thanks,
Art
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With the recent tumult of updates coming from Neoseeker a lot of NAMFox features have been affected. This update serves to get everything working again across all browsers: Firefox 2, 3, 3.5, and 3.6.

I'd also like to thanks Chiggins for his help in implementing the features and bug fixes below!

Enjoy!
Art

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New Features

1. Snap to message after quick edit
2. Additional clicking options for link menu items in toolbar
3. Add CRS Links to Toolbar

Bug Fixes

1. Hide edit tags no longer works
2. Restoring backup messages doesn't work
3. Forum name tagged onto forum post subject on quick reply
4. Color stripping doesn't always work
5. Color stripping changes colors inside of quotes to black instead of #333366
6. Default message doesn't appear when quoting PM
7. Default message not added when adding a blog comment
8. Hex code chart no longer works

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With Christmas fast approaching it's time to create some of the classic Christmas dishes, including today's special—cranberry sauce.

Recipe

Ingredients (US Units)

• 6 whole cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 12 oz. cranberries

Steps

1. Wrap all of the cloves and the cinnamon stick in a cheesecloth. This was my first exposure to "cheesecloth"—we'll cook the cranberries with the spices in the cloth so they don't get lost in the sauce. Nothing worse than eating something only to discover you've taken a big bite of a cinnamon stick. :)

2. Next, combine the sugar, water, vinegar and spices in a saucepan and put on high heat until the mixture starts to boil; then bring down the mixture to medium heat and wait for the sugar to dissolve completely. This will take about 5 minutes.

3. Then pour the cranberries into the saucepan and cook the
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Most of what I know about cooking I learned by watching others prepare food and talking to them about their techniques. The problem with doing this is that when you want to recreate their dishes, you have to stitch together your memories of what you saw and what they said and pray that you end up with something that looks (and tastes!) halfway decent. So, in an endeavor to solve this problem, I've decided to write a blog post about each recipe that I see so I no longer have to keep these tucked away in my memory. As an added bonus, I can share the recipes with you guys and get some feedback about things I can do differently in future. So let's get started!



The first dish that my mom and I prepared tonight was rainbow trout. It was a pretty straightforward dish, but sometimes it can be a little intimidating to look at fish and think "what the hell do I do with this?".

Recipe

Ingredients

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Hey guys, I wanted to let you all know that after a long and arduous journey, NAMFox has been approved as a public add-on to host on addons.mozilla.org! This is a big step in improving the visibility of NAMFox as well as the availability of the host. I hope this means there will be no more issues downloading NAMFox. :)

If you have NAMFox 1.6, you should be prompted to download 1.6.0.1 from the addons.mozilla.org site. There are no functionality changes in this version, just a couple of changes to make NAMFox play more nicely with other add-ons.

To all of you who took the time to write reviews for NAMFox, I really appreciate your help. I couldn't have gotten NAMFox approved without your help.


NAMFox at AMO
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A couple weeks ago I realized my efforts in "outdoing myself" were slack, not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of time. There are so many things I know I can achieve, but they stay on the backburner until I have time to pursue them.

It wasn't until last week that I had the idea to take a sabbatical from Neoseeker to start attacking this long backlog of self-improvement efforts. As a result, I began talking with Redemption, a few supermoderators and my good friend bobbonew to see if we could come to sort of arrangement. Fortunately, we did. I recently released a new version of NAMFox alongside the new forum upgrades, both of which help facilitate the all-desired
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Throughout middle school and high school I had four years of Spanish classes, and while I thought we were learning a lot of material, I remember now that we were not truly engaged in wanting to learn. I recently realized that I didn't want those years to go to waste, though, and so I started learning Spanish on my own. The best way that I found so far (within my budget) was to use the tools available at SpanishPod101.com.

If you haven't been to SpanishPod101.com and you're interested in learning Spanish, then I recommend that you take a look. Their premise is simple. Don't pay a cent and you get access to free podcasts, each of which usually involve some Spanish monologue or dialogue along with an audio translation. Pay a little bit to gain access to PDF transcripts of the lessons so you can examine grammar and spelling in more depth. Pay a lot more to access all of that in addition to on
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I am strongly of the opinion that most bug report forums on Neoseeker don't need moderators. That might seem strange coming from someone who's moderated the Forum and Site Bug Reports forums for a year and a half, but I have learned a lot of things about the forums that suggest they can be run differently.

I believe that the typical moderating experience for a bug forum is very poor. The moderator has the onus of updating statuses for each and every thread that comes into the forum; this might be easier if the pre-established statuses were plain text, but as far as I can remember bug statuses have always involved fancy flags (, , , , , ...). As a result, moderators would have to remember statuses and their corresponding flag colors in order to set a status:

• Status: Confirmed
• Status: Resolved
• Status: Unconfirmed

And yes, the status list does go on.

Another problem with moderating bug
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