About Me

Name: Siddharth Kalra (Sid)

IRC Nick: Sid or Sid23

Contact Email: sid_at_sidkalra_dot_com

Program: Bachelor Degree of Software Development (Semester 7)

About: I'm a software developer currently studying at Seneca College. You can check out my website at http://www.sidkalra.com. Also check out my blog, The Unheralded Perspective

DPS909

Contributions

Contributed to Add Bit Torrent support to Songbird by installing Songbird. Look here
Contributed to Thunderbird Image Auto-Resize by emailing zghansar and telling him about wrapping 'loose' variables and functions within a JavaScript object to avoid conflicts with other addons
Contributed to Canvas3D XUL Runner App 0.1 by testing MyBrowser.exe. Go here to view the results
Contributed to the Mozilla community by performing addon reviews as an AMO editor
Added the DPS909, OSD600 and Mozilla for beginners categories to the zenit wiki
Added a how-to for applying a patch to a repo using Mercurial
Contributed to Aaron Train's Contribute to Private Browsing tests project by testing <video> and <audio> tags with Firefox 3.1*. View here

Essay

Lab 1

Created an account on this wiki for myself
Created a personal wiki page on this wiki, and add a link for myself to the People page
Created a blog and created a feed category called "open source"
Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use my blog in the course
Added my blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List
Blogged on my reactions to the readings for this week.
Began learning how to use IRC for communication.

Lab 2

Ensured that all TODO items from week 1 were completed
Commented in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote.
Watched online lectures for this week about open source community
Completed this week's lab. Posted my results here
Looked at the Potential Projects page and picked 3 projects on which you'd like to work--next week, you'll narrow this to just one. List them here along with your name.
Added my wiki page to the class list for Students in DPS909 Fall 2008

Lab 3

Watched online lectures about the Mozilla build system.
Attended the Mozilla Developer Day and blogged about my experience
Blogged about building Firefox
Picked my project and started working on it. Created a project page for my project in the Project List.

Lab 4

Worked on the Source Code Reading lab by searching for code for File > Close Tab. Found the code here using MXR
As a substitute for the create a patch lab I uploaded my own patches for my project for bug 445560, bug 448707 and bug 459727

Lab 5

Created a bugzilla account
Found 3 bugs related to my project, and added them to my wiki page...
- 3 bugs related to Mercurial or hgweb
CCed myself on two bugs that related to your project
Watchd bsmedberg in bugzilla for the week and blogged about the experience
Registered for FSOSS as a volunteer.

Lab 7

Lab 8

I'm starting work on the Mercurial History Browsing project.