The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 1: Feb 16, 2015

Links

• Watch this episode on YouTube
• Blog post on this episode
• Episode notes on Evernote

Topics

• Bug 1090439
• e10s windows, printing on Linux.
• Event loops, nested event loops
• Spinning an event loop in nsXULWindow and NS_ProcessNextEvent
• Looking up cause of some error messaging. Look up the string in dxr, get the identifier, find where that identifier is used.
• Attaching a debugger, setting breakpoint at some known function

Resource Links

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• Firefox Source Code Documentation
• mozconfigwrapper: A Wrapper to manage different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly: Mike's addon to track your review queues on Mozilla Phabricator
• Mike's Firefox Color Theme
• Firefox Monitor: Stay informed on new data breach of services you're using online
• Create a free Bugzilla account
• Codetribute: Find a good first bug to start contributing on a Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, and more). See the above link for creating a Bugzilla account first!
• Nathan Baggs livehacking / reverse engineering
• Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
• Emilio hacking on Firefox