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* Created Zenit Wiki
 
* Created Zenit Wiki
 
* Created Blog
 
* Created Blog
* Blogged on introductory readings ([http://ehren.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/an-introduction/
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* Blogged on introductory readings ([http://ehren.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/an-introduction/ here])
  
 
===Week 2===
 
===Week 2===
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* Listened in on a [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Weekly_Calls | Weekly Call]]:
 
* Listened in on a [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Weekly_Calls | 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
 
** 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
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* Got Mathew to update my wiki, Updated Mathew's wiki (IRC lab)
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* Referenced another student's blog post (Mathew's) [http://ehren.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/building-firefox-in-progress/ here] for help with build issues
  
* Update Mathew's Wiki, Got Mathew
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==Week 3==
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* [http://ehren.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/building-firefox-in-progress/ Built firefox from Trunk]
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* (See project page for project related TODO stuff)
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==Week 4==
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* Lab: never actually patched Thunderbird, but I did review Mathew's patch

Revision as of 11:19, 17 December 2009

Contact Information

Name Ehren Metcalfe
Email 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.

Technical Qualifications

Programming Languages

  • C
  • C++
  • Java
  • PHP
  • SQL

DPS909 Project

GCC alwayszero function attribute

Contributions to other projects

Remove ^L characters from comm-central source

Building Firefox with GCC 4.5:

GCC: Bug rtl-optimization/42139 Compiling firefox trunk with 4.5 fails with 'out of memory allocating 4072 bytes after a total of xxx bytes'

GCC: Link Error Building Mozilla with 4.5

Mozilla: Bug 531094 Inline method crashes GCC 4.5

Editing in progress right now

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

Week 4

  • Lab: never actually patched Thunderbird, but I did review Mathew's patch