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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…

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.

Two identical problems with two very different solutions — Firefox 12

I do my mozilla-central builds on a remote machine which is several times faster than my own laptop. The remote machine (I call it Tibet) is a Fedora 16 on which I setup a simple ssh server for my use. I made a…