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TryChooser 12 Jul 2011 | 07:06 am
TryChooser is a simple extension that makes sending to TryServer simple. Here’s a transcript of sending some mq patches to Try. Get it here.
CC-lists and openness 16 Jun 2011 | 08:24 pm
Should “private” emails be CCed to public mailing lists? [1] Suppose I email Jon about the register allocator in the DragonMonkey branch [3]. I’ll just email him directly, and that discussion won’t b...
Helping new contributors – Part 2 – Mentoring 7 May 2011 | 10:17 am
Getting into the Mozilla code base can be pretty hard. Even experienced developers may need help finding a good place to start. Up until now, we’ve been using the good first bug whiteboard annotation...
Helping New Contributors – Part 1 – Meta 29 Apr 2011 | 10:42 am
There has been a lot of recent interest in helping new members of the community contribute to the Mozilla code base. A few of us met up during the All-hands, and have started doing “Coding Contributor...
Summary of Contributor Engagement threads on dev-planning 3 Apr 2011 | 05:17 pm
There have been a few threads regarding Contributor Engagement on the dev-planning list, focussing specifically on contributions to the tree. In order to follow up on these ideas, and others that diff...
Great commit messages 12 Feb 2011 | 10:37 am
roc and jimb write great commit messages. As well as fulfilling the basics requirements of listing the reviewer, bug number, etc, they add enough context that you don’t need to crawl through bugzilla ...
Why we shut NewsTilt down 17 Sep 2010 | 08:18 am
Last updated: October 7th, 11:55pm GMT NewsTilt was a YCombinator-backed startup which aimed to provide services to help journalists become entrepreneurs and earn a living off their work online. It c...
A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular. 9 Feb 2010 | 04:46 am
I’ve worked on phc since 2005, and been its maintainer since 2007. I wrote the optimizer, and nearly everything performance related. I had mixed reactions upon hearing about the release of HPHP [1], ...
Introducing Malicious Code Reviews 24 Dec 2008 | 02:11 pm
I’m inventing a new sport today, which I call “malicious code reviews”. I spent a few hours reading some really very bad code, and in retaliation against its author(s), I’m going to code review it [1]...
