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About shizen008

Breaking things and getting in trouble for it since '74. Disclaimer: I am not responsible if I make your head explode reading this blog! The writings here are my own expression and not of any companies. I currently work on being a QA for B2G aka Firefox OS

Experimental Project

I was working on a project to pitch and due to some things that have happened recently I decided to switch my focus.  I don’t think it’s a failure, it’s something that we will have to come back to in … Continue reading

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Decided…

to start trying to lower bars and improve usability (in tools/processes) for contributors. to start coding more. Those are my new year resolutions.  Let’s see what happens next year!    

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Exploratory testing, UA, State Diagrams, etc.

I’ve utilized a semi State Diagram based on UI to help explain exploratory testing. I found out that User Experience staff utilizes a UA : User interface Architecture to show all the UI and flows. Anyways, you can see the … Continue reading

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The difference between amateur and pro…

The amount of energy expended on doing a something within the realms of the task… ie. A black belt isn’t going to exert more energy to block or dodge than an amateur is in any martial arts. That energy is … Continue reading

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Japanese Proverb.

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Blob free now on task cluster

Bug 1175934 – [B2G] Add support to build blobfree images has landed and is now available on task cluster : https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/artifacts/#gecko.v1.mozilla-central.latest.linux.aries-blobfree/gecko.v1.mozilla-central.latest.linux.aries-blobfree.opt What is Blob free?  see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building#Building_a_blob_free_full_system_zip That’s right.  if you follow Bug 1166276 – (b2g-addon) [meta] Getting a B2G Installer Addon, … Continue reading

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Modifying multiple bugs in a search query in bugzilla:

[2:51pm] nhirata_: swilkes: you mentioned you can do bulk edits to bugzilla bugs?  how do you do that? [2:51pm] nhirata_: ( I would like to edit the priority field to a bunch of bugs I created 0 [2:51pm] nhirata_: ) … Continue reading

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Possible script to standup an linux box with b2g… still need to work out some parts:

# Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit OS: B2G installer # the following will get your machine all updated sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade # add repos sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo … Continue reading

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From the desk of Mark Surman,

Hi there, We’re reaching out to you now because three sections of the PATRIOT Act expire soon, which gives us a rare opportunity to push for reforms that will protect our privacy while also keeping us safe. Congress is going … Continue reading

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Considering the chipsets of the mobile products are starting to get more and more powerful…

I get the feeling that chipsets in mobile will get to a point where it’s just as powerful as the desktop machines. What if… we make a computer cluster of mobile devices + desktop devices whether through web or through … Continue reading

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