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 the templates to make the whole page orange I downloaded a repository provided by bsmeberg [...]
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 have to decide on some very small thing that you can get running very soon [...]
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 various people presenting different types of Mozilla technologies. I got to sit in during one [...]
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 are like me you’re probably wondering what in the world that is? Is it like [...]
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 my choices first… Contribute to Private Browsing Tests Create Self Serve Symbol Upload System Help [...]
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 to a new user. I have to say that it it quite useful and intuitive. [...]
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 support Mozilla? Only time will be able to answer some of these questions. Chrome has [...]
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 had to end up going by myself because he wasn’t able to pull himself out [...]
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. He and I are are on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to [...]
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 found all of them to be quite interesting and informative, although I had already watched [...]