User:Egmetcalfe
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Contact Information
| Name | Ehren Metcalfe |
| egmetcalfe [AT] learn [DOT] senecac [DOT] on [DOT] ca | |
| Email2 | ehren.m [AT] gmail [DOT] com |
| IRC | ehren |
| BLOG | Ehren's Blog |
About Me
I'm a 5th Semester BSD student taking DPS909. I do a little bit of contract web development (mostly design) and also tutor at the Learning Centre.
DPS909 Project
GCC alwayszero function attribute
DPS911 Project
Contributions to other projects
Remove ^L characters from comm-central source
Building Firefox with GCC 4.5:
GCC: Link Error Building Mozilla with 4.5
Mozilla: Bug 531094 Inline method crashes GCC 4.5
Editing in progress right now
Labs/Weekly Tasks
Week 1
- Created Zenit Wiki
- Created Blog
- Blogged on introductory readings (here)
Week 2
- Created MDC Wiki (done)
- Joined #static mailing list
- Listened in on a Weekly Call:
- This was done at a later date. I ended up listening in on an Education call about Women in Mozilla which was actually quite interesting. I hadn't realized the extent of all of the 'evangelism' efforts around the world, in Europe, etc
- Got Mathew to update my wiki, Updated Mathew's wiki (IRC lab)
- Referenced another student's blog post (Mathew's) here for help with build issues
Week 3
- Built firefox from Trunk
- (See project page for project related TODO stuff)
Week 4
- Lab: Source code reading - Checked out the html parser generator. Seems to be a python frontend for Bison
Week 5
- Created bugzilla account (done previously)
- See above for project related bugs
Week 6
- Lab: never actually patched Thunderbird, but I did review Mathew's patch
- Registered for FSOSS
Week 7
- Commented on JavaScript: The Good Parts here (I actually ended up taking this out from the library)
