Helping with breakpad
Wednesday was a fun day. I finally decided to take the plunge and step in and help with Breakpad Fine day to make that decision too, since the Breakpad status meetings are on Wednesdays at 11 am Pacific Time. I ended up being on the call via Google Voice. (Side note: Skype on linux had…
Nailing a localization bug
As I wrote in my last post, I’ve been working on Mozilla input. After the first 2 weeks of my work, I ended up finishing almost all of the easy bugs on the project. On Monday, I decided to tackle one of the more challenging bugg, bug 614535. The situation in Input is interesting because…
Pair Debugging with Byobu
Lately, I’ve been contributing to Mozilla Input. After writing a few small fixes, I started picking up the slightly not-small ones. My fixes ended up breaking tests. That’s when I ran into trouble. The Mozilla webdevs I’ve been working with use Mac and I use Ubuntu. With help from kumar and davedash, I tried debugging…
Lighting Talks at UDW
Since the last Ubuntu Developer Week, we’ve been having a session dedicated to project lighting talks, if you have an interesting project that you’re working on, talk about it for 5 minutes. Show case your project and maybe ask for new contributors in this quick 5 minutes per project session! If you’re interested, please add…
Nerd-friendly blogging
I’ve been promising myself to write about my blog setup for a while now. As I explained earlier, I use Jekyll – ‘a simple, blog aware, static site generator’. Every time jekyll generates html, it gets dumped to the _site folder. I have my local nginx pointing to the _site folder, so every time I…
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