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 I headed over to the build instructions and started following the steps for the Windows platform… [...]
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 to mean all the entries should be loaded onto the page on pageLoad because I [...]
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 and released a patch for it. According to him its not quite done and a [...]
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 my 2 modules are installed properly hg serve is still throwing me an error. I [...]
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 to you. You can set this by going to bugzilla logging in going to preferences [...]
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 graciously pointed out to me. Finding and Installing simplejson and pysqlite2 First thing I had [...]
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 for people to brainstorm ideas to improve hgweb.They have been summarized on the project page. [...]
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 [...]