About to head off to Yoesmite for a few days. Some friends are getting married and I'm taking the chance to do a little hiking and finally see Yosemite. I've only been in the state 24 years or something. Then it will be back on Monday and nose to the grindstone.

Holy Crap. So it turned out that something bad in my extension was corrupting the profile and making it so I couldn't load ANY extensions, local or remote; xpi or flat file. Don't know why it took me so long to think of trying a different profile, but eventually it donned on me. Switched profiles and voila!

After successfully loading a remote, known-to-be-good extension I downloaded it and unzipped and loaded it as a flat file. Oh, it is the HelloWorld extensions available off of the Mozillazine website: here. Convienetly packaged already to the new standard for Mozilla trunk work. Beware, it WON'T work on 1.04 builds because it is set up with the chrome.manifest installation method.

Once I got that working I switched over and got my own example working again. Not sure where I had gone wrong, but when I made it look like the example, in structure at least, it worked. Now I've added properties files, dtd entities and have started poking around in JS. I'm totally excited to make this project!!

I remembered I had done some JS work back at mozilla in my web services days and will be looking that up to refresh my memory. I also ordered the latest version of the O'Reily Javascript reference (along with some Perl books and the latest Definitive CSS). But for now, it's off to pack for Yosemite as I'm leaving Friday morning and won't have time to pack all day tomorrow (building sets all day and then rehearsing in the evening). Maybe I'll get a little light reading in before bed though....Javascript or Perl....Hmmm......

Phew, straightened out the styling and page designs for the new look. All the links on the navbar now exist and are styled. They don't all have lots of content yet, but that will come. Just have the individual archive templates and the master's classwork portions of the site to convert to the new style.

Now to get back to actually working on my project!