Blogging Pubbitch

I must be late to the party, but Gears finally works on Firefox 3, which is a Good Thing considering that RC3 has just been released. Yay! On the downside, Google Reader isn't showing up properly when I access it offline. Oh well, I'm sure that it'll be fixed soon.

On a related note, I've had the opportunity to delve into the Gears codebase. There's some pretty cool stuff in there, and if it wasn't Open Source it wouldn't have been so easy to use it as a learning tool. It's a pretty hefty amount of code, which makes getting to grips with it a slightly intimidating experience, but it's organised well and once you've started it starts to make more sense.

I find myself wondering how easy it is to attract new developers to the project: I know that the number of languages used in WebDriver puts some potential contributers off, and we've got far less "mass" to deal with. I'm working on the theory that the modularisation of both projects helps make getting started easier, and once people are involved it becomes less daunting to tackle the areas that seemed too hard to even look at.