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There are some really good resources floating around out there for aspiring Firefox developers. The difficult part is finding them all under one roof. Here are a couple of things that I’ve found or used over the past few days / months / years, so I thought I’d share a couple of them with you, and some of you out there could add to the list.

Ted Mielczarek has created a really handy-dandy extension wizard for either Firefox or Thunderbird authors. It creates a skeleton shell of an extension that lays out the code properly and has all the correct formats in place. It’s a really good start for someone who’s experimenting with extension creations.

He also has a plethora of extensions and other developer tools at his web site, so I suggest you check them out:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/

Another useful tool (which might becoming obsolete soon, thanks to new, more friendlier ways of creating identifiers) is right here on this web site, although it doesn’t have a really clear link to it:

http://extensions.roachfiend.com/cgi-bin/guid.pl

It will generate valid GUIDs and you can also see how the script is set up.

Feel free to list some good resources you may have found around the net.

P.S. Buy my camera.

My friend Stephen Moseley just went live with a new web site called Cool People Care. The purpose of the site is such:

If people are told how they can make a difference in less than 5 minutes a day, they just might do it. And, just like tiny water droplets make a tidal wave, if you get enough people to care for 5 minutes a day, you’ll change the world. Thus, 5 Minutes of Caring was born. This 99-word, daily suggestion is full of practical tips and helpful hints designed to motivate individuals to act. Loaded with links to change agents and charitable organizations, this brief distraction from your daily routine will soon become part of it.

So take a few minutes out of your daily routine and do some good, as Elliot Ness would say.

I’m clearing out a bunch of stuff from the old homestead to make room for the new bundle of boy to arrive soon, and we need the extra cash. To e-bay!

There’s all kinds of swell stuff for sale, like a basically-new Nintendo DS Lite with Super Mario Brothers, a few types of watches, and obscure data cables! How can you not be excited??

A lot of books are going up soon on the chopping block, as well. I have some coding books, vegetarian books (The wife’s, not mine. I live on animal fat), and “The Hip Mama’s Survival Guide.”

What? I can be hip.

Reader Kevin Seidel has submitted a working overlay file for Always Remember Password. I’ll update the version number later this weekend, but for now, the one posted is working just dandy so far.

Thanks, Kevin!