Year: 2007

I attended the podworks.in last weekend. For those who don’t know what podworks is , PodWorks.in is a 2-day workshop styled unconference dedicated to the sharing of knowledge around audio and video podcasting. It’s a successor to the extremely successful BlogCamp that was held last year. Though i have lots …

DNS makes our life real easy. Without that, i don’t think people will say check out http://google.com but check out http://64.233.187.99. I realized how important DNS is to us and without DNS how one can go mad. I installed Solaris (Neveda ) two weeks back and it was good. 🙂 …

Having written the test scripts for Firefox, this time going to tell how to test Firefox with these scripts. The test scripts can be found here There is a wiki page in LDTP website which gives quick tips about how to run LDTP test cases. First quick steps to get …

My SoC is going fine and great. Hoping to finish this well ahead of time:) This is a blog + report 🙂 So i have started with Automation of Firefox. For the current status of all the test cases i have mentioned here, check this link The categories under which …

This is my first post related to my SoC. So let me just introduce things. I am doing Google Summer Of Code under Mozilla Foundation . My mentors are Nagappan from Novell, Bangalore and Emily Chen from Sun, China. When i started working for my SoC, i got a mail …

Never write a line of code that someone else can understand. Make the simplest line of code appear complex. Use long counter intuitive names. Don’t ever code “a=b”, rather do something like: AlphaNodeSemaphore=*(int)(&(unsigned long)(BetaFrameNodeFarm)); Type fast, think slow. Never use direct references to anything ever. Bury everything in macros. Bury …

I have never thought much about coding style before i did my NOSIP in Novell. But once i started coding for ldtprecord, according to the coding style suggested to me by nags, i was surprised to see how nice and neat the final code looks. Some tips/tricks for nice coding …