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Mozilla Author Nigel McFarlane Dies (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine reports on
the death of Nigel McFarlane. "Nigel also contributed more directly
to the Mozilla project, adding comments to Bugzilla bug reports and
participating in discussions. Last year, he was a speaker at the Mozilla
Developer Day 2004 conference. Outside of Mozilla, Nigel was known as an
advocate of Web standards and author of two books about JavaScript. He was
a prominent open source analyst and commentator."
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Mozilla Author Nigel McFarlane Dies (MozillaZine) Posted Jun 27, 2005 3:12 UTC (Mon) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link] Linux and its community have changed my thinking dramatically. What I find beautiful about this open community is just how accessable it is to anyone willing to learn. We can see our heros and talk to them much more respectfully and mutually than most other people could dream.
As a result of this openness and freedom it is therefore doubly sad when we lose those who help things along. I am saddened by this loss and wish Nigel's loved ones the best.
Nigel's book Posted Jun 27, 2005 5:11 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] I did not know Nigel, but he was author of "Rapid Application Development in Mozilla". He contributed that work, and many others, to everyone as Open Source. You can download the PDF here, the source of the book is also online. I hope that someone will step forward to continue Nigel's work, keep this book up to date, and make it part of the Mozilla documentation.Bruce
Mozilla Author Nigel McFarlane Dies (MozillaZine) Posted Jun 27, 2005 19:51 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] Nigel did some great articles for Linux Journal, too. For example, his sample project using XUL to make a process status viewer, a GUI ps, is a really useful intro to XUL. And the readers always appreciate when an author does a good reply to a letter to the editor, which Nigel did. I never met him in person, as is the case with most authors, but he was always informative and fun to work with.
When you talk about building a community around a project, the best possible meaning of that is to have a few people like Nigel use it.
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