Abhishek Bhatnagar

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…

Was Stephen Paddock a terrorist?

It’s a hard question to answer, and like much of social science, remains subjective. However, given the current state of American society (with perhaps the most opportunistic, narcissistic and demonstrably divisive president in history), and the emotionally charged nature…

Reading Weekly -August 14, 2016 — August 21, 2016

Highlights this week

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Firefox build — Part 2

Since that last Firefox build I hit some turbulence with my laptop and lost most of my data (explanation in gray below). But now I’m back on F16 doing another build.

This time round though, after following the steps highlighted in the last post, I came across…

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…