Vancouver Firefox Release Party -- EggOn .1!

After seeing the release of Mozilla Firefox, I decided that it was imparative to goto some release party. However, Seattle, being the Microsoft capitol, didn't really have much in the way of a party. Vancouver on the otherhand it looked like was going to have upto 50 people! Well, about a third showed up, but it was still fun... Here is the group

It was funny though getting there, I could have sworn we were at a Mac Convention of some sort. The only person with a laptop was Luke, who had a 17" Powermac. it was VERY nice.... Later on, another person came bearing a laptop as well. Yes, you guessed it, a mac.

Since the crowd was only about 20 or so, after the 2 girls left (Yah we didn't have the 'Ontario' turn out we expected) we started getting desperate for fun. We had wireless in the pub, so we decided that it was time to Wikalong some ASCII pr0n....

However, our waitress wasn't too happy about that... so we turned it off and went back to drinking... which, might I add, she liked much more! We tried explaining why Firefox is so much better than that other browser, but I don't know if she figured it out or not.
Around midnight or so we decided to head out and grab pizza. Vancouver is known for its cheap pizza by-the-slice. So for $1.25 a piece, we got some grub and started talking...
"What should we do now?"
"hummm.. Lets program a Firefox Extension!!!"
So we decided to goto Kalien's house and start coding. Its 12:30am.....

We arrive, and come up with these ideas: IrcAlong (like Wikialong, but live chat)
BlinkOTron (randomly turn HTML elements into BLINK)
FuckOffLeavemeAlone (make links go display:none when hovered over)
ClickOnHover (when you hover over a link, it goes to the page)
And... Eggon.. and Egg Timer for Firefox!

We start the planning process, grabing sheets of paper and a project board. Once we figured out what frivilous project we wanted to do, we got started.... We choose Eggon!
First thing.. we needed supplies. So we went out and got some eggs and pop. After we got back, Dave and I did research on how long you should boil an egg. We came up with:

• 4 Mins for Soft Boiled
• 8 Mins for Medium Boiled
• 11 Mins for Hard Boiled

Kalien started working on the XPI installer and working through the XUL. We wanted an egg that showed up near the RSS tag on the status bar. ... it was hard work trying to debug those JAR files....

With Kalien working on the XUL/XPI stuff, David started working on Java script, Graem started working on making Egg PNGs, Rob was our Manager, and Jordi was the Catman.

And I.. well I was behind the Camera. actually later on I was working the firefox-egg logo, as well as trying to figure out XUL... but basically I was falling asleep due to the fact that I never really slept much this past week.

Once David completed the basic code for the timer, we decided we should try out our timers. Heh, Dave even made a buzzer. Although its not in Version .1, it will be someday! So on to making an egg....

Once the egg was done, we gave it a try.. the first Egg was a little 'underdone'... I guess we didn't submerge the egg in enough boiling water.

Our second try involved more water, as well as 'Hard Boiled' mode. 11 Mins later...

The shell came off good, now lets see how the egg tastes!!

Yummy!!!!

Now we just needed to make a good Firefox-Egg PNG and get the installer working... Few more hours pass by and w00t, the About Box shows up!

(Obviously as you can see, we have fallen asleep by now... 4:30am...)

Then making the Firefox with the Egg in Photoshop...

About this time it was nearly 5:00am. David and I were both passing out pretty quick, so we decided to Jet. On the way home I finished the Logo! When I woke up the next morning, I recieved an E-mail that said that Eggon .1 was released!!!

So Eggon! come and download it at http://www.rely.ca/eggon/