Since FSOSS my brain has been churning with many thoughts about my place in open source. According to Dave in this week’s class we are all more elite than we may think and we all have potential to do great things in open source. It’s hard to think that I can be in [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Reverse Engineering
Posted in musings, open-source on October 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Long Day at FSOSS 2007
Posted in dps909, fsoss, open-source on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s the end of a long day. Starting out on my bike at 7:15 am and ending now, at 12:45 am (but I probably won’t actually sleep until 1). I went to several talks, took lots of pictures and just wrapped up the rough draft of my FSOSS Report.
Had a great chat [...]
0.1 Release
Posted in debugging, dps909, firefox, open-source, source server, success, symbol server on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s what we’re looking at.
I built a version of ff that was checked out from mozilla’s cvs. From this version I called “make buildsymbols” and created the folder 2007092823 which contained all the pdb and symbol files for that build.
For information on how to use the symbol server – check out Benjamin [...]
Extensibility with Mark Finkle
Posted in dps909, extensions, firefox, open-source, seneca, speakers on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today’s class was a presentation with Mark Finkle from Mozilla Corp. These are my notes.
Started off in proprietary software
Has only been with Mozilla for a year
The joy of extensions
– Primary way to get involved is through add-ons (extensions)
– Plug-ins killed the web (according to some) and are kind of discouraged
– Any [...]
Learning to Litmus
Posted in club moz, firefox, litmus, mozilla, open-source, qa, testing, troubleshooting on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s Club Moz meeting was quite productive as we tackled doing QA tests with Litmus.
I encourage more folks to come to Club Moz next meeting: Tuesday October 30th at 4:30 in SEQ2119 (next to ACS). Every Tuesday is a test day for Mozilla@Seneca and this is a great way of getting your feet wet [...]
Wearing grey socks makes all the difference, right?
Posted in dps909, firefox, open-source, source server, success, troubleshooting on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What did I do?
Today, the indexing worked.
See the command here:
cvsindex -server=cvs -source=c:\ff\mozilla -symbols=c:\symbolServer\2007092823 -debug > output.txt
And the output.txt.
See how now it is indexing the files?! Cool.
So what did I do differently than last time?
Last Time:
ssindex.cmd [STATUS] : Server ini file: C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows\sdk\srcsrv\srcsrv.ini
ssindex.cmd [STATUS] : Source root : c:\ff\mozilla
ssindex.cmd [STATUS] : [...]
Going in circles
Posted in altering code, debugging, dps909, firefox, open-source, source server, troubleshooting on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t know how many times I can read the 3 main sources of information about this source server business. Everytime I read them it’s like being in a house of mirrors. Tonight I found a new site that refers to a source server. Once again I hear how amazing this source [...]
First extension
Posted in altering code, dps909, extensions, open-source on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is done.
First attempt lead to error messages about the malformed or non-existent install.rdf file. Well, I knew it existed because I brought it into existence. So I looked around the other mozilla documents and made a replacement install.rdf – no error.
After this point though, I hit a wall because I could install [...]
Oh Bugzilla
Posted in debugging, dps909, open-source on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well I’m a little late in reporting on my experience of watching someone on Bugzilla. This is partly because I didn’t read the “to-dos” closely enough and then it was because it took a few hours to find out how to watch someone. Well, asking on IRC, I was informed that you go [...]
Ontario Linux Fest 2007
Posted in conference, dps909, fsoss, inspiration, linux, ontario, open-source, seneca on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My Experience at Ontario Linux Fest 2007 – At the Toronto Congress Center.
Woke up at 6 am to get the dog walked and eat some breakfast before heading out to get Cesar. Thanks Cesar for being awake and ready to go!
We had to go up to Seneca first and grab the display material from [...]
