AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Using Lambda, you can create code that will only be run in response to an event. AWS supports lambda functions in many languages including Python. Writing a Python Lambda function is pretty straight forward if your code does …
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Git: How to set a default push remote repo
Learn how to make git push to the same remote branch name.
How to find all files containing specific text in linux?
Recently, while working on a project, I needed to search if an image I intended to delete was in use anywhere else in the code. There were lot’s of text files to go through and I needed a quick way to tell whether or not it was safe to delete said image. I learned how …
How to untar files in Linux/Ubuntu
In Linux, a common file format is the tarball. A tarball is a compressed folder similar to a zip file. Most Linux distributions include a graphical archive manager that allows the user to extract and manage different types of archives. While GUI based packages are great, I prefer using the terminal to manipulate files. A …
How To Download Entire Websites Using wget.
An invaluable tool that I use a lot is wget. wget is a free terminal utility for downloading files from the Internet. I do not have a reliable Internet connection and when I do get online, I am usually on a metered network. Not being able to connect to the Internet when I want to …
2 years at Mozilla– What a ride
2 Years at Mozilla I’ve been contributing to Mozilla projects for 2 years now and it’s been a wonderful journey. It all started sometime in June/July of 2012. I sent an email to one of the Mozilla mailing lists requesting to volunteer and a day or so later, I got a response. I went through …
A new Homepage for mozillians.org
This post originally appeared here . The Mozillians Community directory has a new design for the home page and the style has been updated across the whole site. The code was updated, bugs were filed and fixed and it has gone live. This is a brief summary of the features that are in this release, …
Our Community Site
I should have written this up a long time ago, but we now have a community website 🙂 The link to the Mozilla Zimbabwe Community can be found here
Testing Web Applications and Filing Bugs
Testing Web Applications and Filing Bugs For the past 6 months or so, I’ve been a casual contributor to a number of Mozilla related projects. When I signed up to be a contributor, I joined the Web Quality Assurance team which is responsible for ensuring that all Mozilla web properties are secure, error free and …