Regular classes for this semester have finally come to an end which means that the open source course for this semester has also reached the finish line. This is the first time I’ve taken such a course. I think it is very unique. Seneca, or for that matter other Colleges or Universities don’t offer a [...]
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 first round of presentations were slated to begin at 9am). Each person attending the conference [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]