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Cdpatel1

Joined 14 August 2008
Revision as of 13:39, 13 December 2008 by Cdpatel1 (talk | contribs) (Lab 9 : FIRSTXPCOM)

Personal Profile

Name: Chinmay Patel or Chintu or Chinu or Jimmy

Gender: Male

Course: BSD (Bachelor of Software Development)

Strengths: C, C++, Java, SQL

Weaknesses: I can't ask somebody for help. But, I think I have to learn that ... and eventually I will

Hobbies: RollerSkating and Pingpong and Badminton and Lots of other.

Contact: cdpatel1@senecac.on.ca, chinmay_patel@ymail.com

Programming Profile

Languages Known: C, C++, Java, SQL, Flash Actionscript

Blog : cdptel1.blogspot.com

Projects: I haven't completed any projects but school assignments.

Current Project: Currently I am working on project on Mozilla Thunderbird. It is all about making weave work on Thunderbird. The work has already been started and I just have to continue from the left over and wrap it up.


Projects

0.1 Rename Attachment

This Extension will rename attachments. Here is more info regarding the Extension. http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Rename_Attachment

0.2 Attachment Reminder

Hot Hot Hot Hot Bug!!! This feature will remind user to attach attachments. So, no more "Sorry, I forgot the attachments. Here it is. Sorry, ..." !

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Attachment_Reminder

0.3 Attachment Reminder

Just going to expand more features on Attachment Reminder Bug. Make it more user friendly. One of the ways to make it user friendly is to allow user to add new keywords which Thunderbird will look for in the body of the email.

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Attachment_Reminder

Labs

Course introduction

Account on [Wiki] and [Blogspot] has been created.

Also, I have added my name to the [Seneca Planet List].

Hence, first is DONE.

Collaborative and Community Development Practices

This lab has provided a brief outline for Open source community. It gave us a main idea, "if the code is already written, don't waste your time in re-writing it. Just Copy and Paste it !!!" For this lab I have made a [cuil], a new search engine, search through Ubiquity.

Managing and Building large source trees

I have blogged about it on my blog page. If you want help or reference, you can go to the link below and look at it.

http://cdpatel1.blogspot.com/2008/09/building-firefox-and-thunderbird-on.html

Navigating the Mozilla source tree

DOM inspector is the best, as far as I know, tool to have a reference for Object Model. I have blogged about how to use it but it didn't show up on the Seneca Planet. To know more about it in my [blog].

Bug searching and Fixing

These are the 3 bugs that are not perfectly related to my project but still somewhat related to it. Here they are ...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232500

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448971

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349547

Modifying Thunderbird Lab

I have filed the bug at [Landfill Bugzilla].

Modifying Thunderbird With extension Lab

In this lab I am doing the same as previous lab. However, I am using extension to do it. [Download] my XPI file and check it.

XPCOM Lab

This is the toughest lab. It took me so much time to finish this lab. [Download] my Lab and Check it. Hopefully, it works.

Lab11 : Chrome

I am planning to do this lab on weekend just after the exam week. I will email you when I am done with the labs.

Contribution Done

  No.
  Name
  Description
   1.
  Patrick
 Provided him the data that he wanted for his research.
  2.
  Patrick
  Debug the makefile
  3.
  Chris Bishop
  Made automated shell script
  4.
  Thomas J. Brown
  Helped him to build his Thunderbird
  5.
  Scott
  Tested his extension.
  6.
  Scott
  Debugged the code and find the error to fix the problem. The problem was in install.rdf file.
  7.
  zghansar
  Build Thunderbird with visual studio.
  8.
 https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Code_snippets/Preferences 
 Changed the code so that it is excceptable.
  9.
 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/Property/itemCount 
 Provided an example in a manner that another developer can understand is easily.

Contribution Received

 Chris Bishop: 
 Always eager to help me. My first source of information after websites. Helped me to build Thunderbird.
 James Boston: 
 Helped me with Building Thunderbird. Plus, Helped me to understand his PASTEBIN AND UBIQUITY stuff.
 Scott Lunel: 
 I was stuck in packaging my Extension. Scott came to me helped me in Packaging it. And finally, my extension is working. Thanks a lot Scott.
 Slokunshialgo
 Tested my extension.
 Sid
 Tested  my extension.
 Patrick Lam
 Tested  my extension.

DOM inspector

DOM inspector is the best, as far as I know, tool to have a reference for Object Model. I have blogged about how to use it but it didn't show up on the Seneca Planet. To know more about it ...

http://cdpatel1.blogspot.com/2008/09/detective-of-mozilla-dom-inspector.html