nsCOMPtr has never been so pretty

Jim Blandy announced his archer-mozilla pretty-printers for Spidermonkey late last year. I’ve used them a few times while working on some JS proxy bugs, and I’ve found them to be invaluable. So invaluable, in fact, that I’ve written a bunch of pretty-printers for some pain points outside of js/. If this prospect excites you so […]

Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by Josh Matthews
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Self-serve tools: now more likely to work

If you’ve given my self-serve tools a try (in particular, cancel.py) and had it claim that it couldn’t authorize you, it’s time to give it another shot. Steven Fink, being the wonderful person he is, dove in and found some weirdness going on with my usage of urllib and the self-serve API performing redirections. The […]

Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by Josh Matthews
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