Peter Carroll: Software Developer

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  • Barra de Español 1.2 is now available!

    The newest version of Barra de Español, version 1.2, is now available! See details about what’s new in this version in my post on Babelhut.com.

  • Simulating a keypress in Firefox

    Last night, I was working on Barra de Español and had spent quite a bit of time on Google looking for how to simulate a keypress in Firefox. It’s as simple as creating an event and dispatching it, though how to do so is not exactly intuitive. I needed to be able to do this […]

  • Update on my Android Developer Challenge 2 attempt

    So the deadline for the Android Developer Challenge 2 has come and gone, and I did not submit an entry. It wasn’t for a lack of trying though. This was entirely a spare time project and I worked on it 3 to 5 days a week for an hour or more at a time. I’m […]

  • Barra de Español has been accepted to Mozilla’s public addon list

    I got an email today from the Mozilla Add-ons group that my add-on for Firefox, Barra de Español, has been approved to be in the public listing for Firefox add-ons! This means that it’s no longer listed as “experimental” and no longer requires that users check a box in order to install it. I was […]

  • My development plan for the Android Developer Challenge 2

    I haven’t posted lately about Barra de Español or the Biblefeed Project because my free time has been split among other projects and I have not been able to return to these two for the moment. Barra de Español is still awaiting approval on addons.mozilla.org to be put in the public section, so I don’t […]