Admittedly, I've been slacking on getting these posts up. Not much I can say to justify why, other than we've been pushing really hard lately on our Butter/Popcorn Maker releases. Blog time is hard to set aside when you've got a huge amount of work to complete, but I…
Late last week I began working on something that we'd needed on Popcorn [http://mozillapopcorn.org] since even before I started at CDOT [cdot.senecac.on.ca] last May. For the longest time, when testing for a release, we would have to manually click through all of the plug-in, player,…
I got sidetracked while hacking on a Firefox bug this evening. I decided to create a tool for myself that would easily strip end of line white space from any given file. It's called Pyspace and it's really easy to use. Already has made my life easier. hope it helps…
I had the honour of participating in a great event last weekend. As part of the Hot Docs film festival [http://www.hotdocs.ca/] taking place this week in Toronto, The Mozilla Foundation [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/] hosted something called Hot Hacks. The purpose of Hot Hacks was to…
Relevant bugs: Bug 726904 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726904], Bug 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363] This, the last post I'll be making for my OSD700 class is going to discuss the work I've been doing on the above mentioned bugs. I've…
As this semester comes to a close, I'd like to take some time to look back on my experiences in open source development. To begin, I'd like to go back to OSD600 [https://cs.senecac.on.ca/course/osd600], the the prerequisite to taking this OSD700 [https://cs.senecac.on.…