The distcc with MSVC project started last summer and as of today (and the fixing of bug 374563) we are glad to announce that we are able to distribute (non-debug) windows builds of Mozilla. This has been the only thing that has kept us from releasing the beta 01. Since it turns out that the […]

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I rarely use the word orgy (sigh) but I feel confident that that I was correct in calling Club Moz’s first hack day an orgy of success. With over 20 people attending we were a little overwhelmed. Luckily Phil, Vanessa, and Ben did a great job getting people introduced to Moz (while I ran around […]

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Naturally, one of the top goals for Cesar and myself has been doing a distributed Windows MSVC build with distcc. Our alpha release which was so good at compiling “simple” apps seems to die on Moz.
The build dies on mozilla/nsprpub/config/now.c . Distcc claims that the compiler died with exit code 2. However distccd’s logs say […]

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I’m a incredibly proud to announce that as of now there is a version of distcc which works with Microsoft’s Visual C (and C++) Compiler cl. We’re calling this an alpha release and hoping that people will let us know if there’s anything they need fixed.
To get the alpha all you need to do is […]

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I’ve been meaning to blog this stuff for a long time so here goes…

Club Moz had it’s first Super Fun Hack Day. Super Fun Hack Day is a day (or part thereof) where people can get together to hack on Mozilla related projects (this means anything that even remotely is related to mozilla). The best […]

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I’m excited about the great stuff that the Computer Studies at Seneca and Mozilla partnership is creating. So when I heard from a r*erson friend said he’s fed up with how his school teaches programming I decided to invite him to Seneca and show him what a *real* programming school looks like.
The results are mixed […]

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So I’m back in school and it’s surprisingly difficult to get working on my projects while finishing my degree at the same time. Who would have thought?
The most (personally) distressing part of this for me is that I may not be able to touch my thunderbird ldap project for a while . I’d like […]

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[Edit: Spelling - Did you know that google said I misspelled gobbledigook… how can you misspell gobbledigook!?!]
Ok, so my group feels that they want to use a different gui toolkit/platform other than Mozilla. Considering the problem’s I’ve been having (for the last two consecutive weekends) I have trouble blaming them. However supportive Dave may be, […]

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I’d just like to mention that I’ve browsed through those two books that I mentioned yesterday (Rapid Application Development with Mozilla and Creating Applications With Mozilla) are pretty much exclusively about XUL. Nothing, that I noticed in my quick browse, about creating a GECKO based executable (like I want to do). I have a feeling […]

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As I browse source code of different stuff I come across lines like this:
## This script is a hack. It’s brute force. It’s horrible.
## It doesn’t use Artificial Intelligence. It doesn’t use Virtual Reality.
## It’s not perl. It’s not python. It probably won’t work unchanged on
## the “other” thousands of […]

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