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What I Learned
=What I Learned=
==Open Source in General==
*Open source isn't just done In The Basement. There are people who have made real, viable careers from open source. They've partnered with large corporations. They've made advertising revenue. They've used OS as a way to showcase themselves, which have lead to "real jobs".
*Its okay to ask questions. I came into this project with zero knowledge of the whole process. How do I start an extension? What IS an extension? How do I look at the code? How do I compile? Etc. I learned how to ask questions on IRC-- and how to ask them again if needed. The answer is out there, and with a large enough community, you can even get someone to answer "what is printf?". (You may have to suffer through a couple RTFMs, but someone will eventually point you to documentation, or tell you what %d does). Be persistant, but not annoying. ;)
*Other things, as discussed in class.
 
==Technical Things==
*Extensions: I now know what an extension '''is''', how to start one, how to install one once built.
*Xulrunner: What it is, how it is a platform, how it interacts with javascript
*IRC: How to use it for more than social communications, how it is still very relevant in modern days
*Wiki: Everything I know about wiki-doing I learned in this course. How to format pages, properly link to others, build tables, use breadcrumbs, and more. There's still tons to learn! I'm hoping to employ a wiki to help me do worldbuilding when I get back to fiction writing.
*lxr: How to use lxr and other forked tools to browse and search through the (massive!) Mozilla code.
*Subversion: Using a revision-tracking tool, rather than doing it manually.
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