Google Summer of Code 2013 with Mozilla
A couple of months ago I started contributing to Gaia (UI layer of Boot2Gecko (a.k.a. Firefox OS)), the new Mobile operating system by Mozilla. After submitting a couple of patches it was an obvious...
View ArticleGSoC 2013 Update: Week 1
So, Week 1 is over! This was more of a warmup week for me. Lightweight work and great amount of community interaction was the main focus. The week started with a discussion with my mentor and creation...
View ArticleGSoC 2013 Update: Week 2
Commencing the week 2 with great enthusiasm, I started working on implementing PiCl class I created last week. Implementing the picl-keyserver calls on the Firefox OS client was the first step towards...
View ArticleGSoC 2013 Update 3
Woah! It has been a long time since my last update. Here is what I’ve been upto: I have been discussing with Jed, the algorithm for merging contacts (which seems to be the hardest part). I have a...
View ArticleGSoc 2013 Update 4
The Idp module which gets a Persona assertion via mockmyid is taking shape and should be ready in a day or two. Currently, we are using Persona instead of Firefox Account as the Fx Account IDP is still...
View ArticleGSoC 2013 Update 5
The sync 1.1 client is taking shape quite well and should be functional after I overcome a trivial bug associated with cross-domain requests (I know I am missing something obvious here). Apart from...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2013 Wrap up
The coding period has ended. I have submitted my final evaluation and now waiting for the final results to be announced. This post is a wrap up of what happened through the summer and the current...
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