Coding

Git Stash

Git’s Stash feature is consistently under used, which is strange because is also one of Git’s features that makes it ridiculously awesome.

Hers’s how it works:

UseCase:
You start working on an issue or feature and have made changes to one or many files in…

Is DOCX really an open standard?

It is hard to believe that even in 2012 we struggle with standards as common as those of documents, presentations and spreadsheets. The de facto formats of these of course are those used by Microsoft Office (docx, pptx, xlsx (collectively called OpenXML or OOXML)), which…

A Year of Open Source: My Review

I just recently completed a whole year of working as an open source developer. I worked on various projects including Mozilla Firefox, EGit, JGit, SQLite, and NexJ Express. The following is a brief history of this process, followed by the lessons I have learned from it…

Firefox Bug 705234 — Inconsistent use of “full screen” across Firefox code

I’ve been falling behind on documenting my activities on here, so I’m going to do a quick fast-forward catch up to them.