Category Archives: Open Source

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Further Progress with pushloghtml’s OnScroll Feature

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Sid

I’ve been working hard on bug 459727 to get it working. Right now it’s starting to look like it should but there are still some problems that need to be fixed. var start = -19; var end = start + 19; … Continue reading →

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Building Firefox from Source

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Sid

This is coming a bit late on my part since my desktop was having some hard drive issues. Well, I finally got that cleared up (ended up having to reformat my computer) and proceeded to build Firefox from source. So … Continue reading →

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FSOSS 2008 – Thoughts and Experiences

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Sid

Today was the first day of the annual FSOSS (Free Software and Open Source Symposium) held at Seneca College, Toronto. The day began with registration which started at 8:15am. I got there at around 8:50 (just in time since the … Continue reading →

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Pushloghtml Should Show More Than 10 Entries, Working on v0.1 Release

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Sid

Well as I stated in a previous blog post, one of my tasks for v0.1 release would be to make pushloghtml show more than 10 entries. Jorendorff, recommended that it show all the entries at once. Now, I took that … Continue reading →

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Applying a patch to a Repo using Mercurial

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Sid

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, one of the features for my v0.1 release will be implementing a expand/collapse feature for pushloghtml. Well, turns out that ted has already started working on that. He’s already filed a bug … Continue reading →

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Getting pushloghtml Up and Running Part Two

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Sid

Carrying on from where I left off , my problems with python modules continue. After some conversations with djc, bsmedberg, ted and jorendorff it seems that Mercurial is using an entirely different python interpreter and that is why even though … Continue reading →

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Bugzilla – Watch a User Feature

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Sid

As a part of an exercise humph asked us to fiddle around with bugzilla. In this case, watch another user. Now what does that mean? That means that any bugmail that the user you are tracking receives will get forwarded … Continue reading →

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Getting pushloghtml Up and Running Part One

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Sid

The past 2 days I have been struggling to get pushloghtml working. As I had mentioned in my previous post I needed 2 modules to do this, simplejson and pysqlite2. Turns out both of them are python libraries, which bsmedberg … Continue reading →

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Deciding on v0.1 Release

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sid

ETime is expeditiously approaching for me to decide on what I will be doing for my v0.1 release. The deadline is Oct 13th. As I mentioned on a previous post jorendorff had made a great blogpost on my project asking … Continue reading →

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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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