Monthly Archives: September 2008

Playing with Mercurial styles

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Sid

As a sort of “Hello World” type of exercise jorendorff recommended that I play around with the styles in hgweb. I had 2 goals to achieve My mission is to get the gitweb_mozilla style working on my computer Then edit … Continue reading →

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Mercurial – Installation and beyond

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Sid

I had a chat with the jorendorff today about what I need to do to get my Mercurial (aka hg) project rolling. He outlined the steps we should look to take… We have to make sure you understand hg We … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Developer Days Toronto

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Sid

Last week Mozilla held a Developer Day conference at Seneca College. This brought various Mozilla developers from its Toronto and California offices to Seneca to talk about all things Mozilla. The conference lasted for the entirety of two days with … Continue reading →

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Mercurial, A Distributed Version Control System

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Sid

Well, I’ve finally decided on my project for this open source course. I am happy to report that I will be working on Mercurial. For anyone that doesn’t know it is a Distributed Version Control Sytem (DVCS). Now if you … Continue reading →

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Picking an Open Source Project

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Sid

Well the time to choose my project for the open source class is approaching very quickly. I’ve narrowed my choice down to 3 now. But I’m still in a dilemma. Which one should I go with? Well, lets look at … Continue reading →

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Ubiquity, a Firefox Extension

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Sid

In our last open source class Dave asked us to work through a lab where we worked with Ubiquity, a Firefox extension. So, I had a go at it. I installed it and read the articles that introduce the add-on … Continue reading →

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Google’s Chrome Enters the Web Browser Race

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Sid

I’m sure by now that everybody has heard of Google’s sudden entry into the browser market. This has raised many new questions for Google’s competitors. Will Chrome be able to eat into the marketshare of IE? Will Google continue to … Continue reading →

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My Gym Adventure – Day 2

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Sid

Well, I’m finally back at the gym for the 2nd time this week. I was supposed to go on Friday but my gym buddy picked up some kind of foot strain so we delayed our trip to today. Unfortunately, I … Continue reading →

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My Gym Adventure – Day 1

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Sid

After years of procrastinating I’ve finally decided its time to get my body in shape. I want to rid myself of my “healthy”, cough overweight appearance. So yesterday I made my first trip to the gym with my house buddy. … Continue reading →

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Open Source (Bazaar) vs Proprietary (Cathedral)

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Sid

As part of the open source course I’m taking at Seneca our professor, David Humphery asked the students to read an article, watch a video and listen to an audio file as the very first assignment for the course. I … Continue reading →

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