Jcranmer

This is Joshua Cranmer, hailing from Northern Virginia.

Queue

What I am working on, or soon-to-be working on:

• bug 382876 (addressbook conversion to use SQLite)
• bug 11050 (other mork conversion)
• bug 400331 (nsNNTPProtocol cleanup)
• Various bugs: making extending account types easier
• Documentation and tedium, including:
  • MailNews:Creating New Account Types (WIP)
  • Category manager documentation
  • Import documentation
  • List archive (Fun, see above)
  • IDL documentation and doxygen foo all over the place
• Account manager overhaul proposal
• New subscribe dialog proposal

Thoughts on things to do

Because bugzilla voting isn't enough.

• News bugs/features/requests:
  • Filter on # of crossposted groups
  • Regex filtering
  • Spam filtering for news
  • Biff notification for news
  • Crosspost non-suckage!
  • NNTP connection persistence
  • Implement some of RFC 3977 and RFC 977
• Web<->Mailnews integration:
  • Generic webmail
  • Web forums like news ?
  • (Probably requires some account manager overhaul)
• RSS:
  • Track down and fix problem with downloading messages
  • Port to SM?
  • Betterify
• Other, generic TB:
  • Automagic thread recreation
  • Easy pluggability
  • Async UI!!!!!!
• Compliance (i.e., what I may never work on):
  • display: run-in
  • @page
  • white-space: pre-line
  • Webforms 2.0 stuff

Effective C++ notes

Item 2

Prefer consts, enums, and inlines to #defines

Item 3

Use const whenever possible

Item 18

Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly

Item 19

Treat class design as type design

Item 22

Declare data members private

Item 26

Postpone variable definitions as long as possible

Item 29

Strive for exception-safe code

Item 31

Minimize compilation dependences between files

Item 32

Make sure public inheritance models "is-a"

Item 33

Avoid hiding inherited names

Item 34

Differentiate between inheritance of interface and inheritance of implementation

Item 38

Model "has-a" or "is-implemented-in-terms-of" through composition

Item 39

Use private inheritance judiciously

Item 40

Use multiple inheritance judiciously

Item 53

Pay attention to compiler warnings