J. Paul Reed
Seth Thomas
Seth Thomas
In case you missed it, Mozilla’s own Brandon Burton (aka @solarce) joined the panel for the most recent episode of The Ship Show1, to talk about his research into and experiences with building and rolling out an internal platform-as-a-service (PaaS). He had a lot of interesting stories and data about introducing PaaS infrastructure at Mozilla Read More
The definition of “latest and greatest version” just changed… I heard some some rumbling that the latest version of Firefox, version 3.51, hit the web today. This is most certainly a big accomplishment and everyone involved has many reasons to be proud of this release. But that’s not what I wanted to talk about2. I Read More
It’s like a Turbo button… only faster!12 In between the constant grind of getting releases out the door, it’s often a struggle to find time to make improvements that are imminently noticeable. That’s not to say that us build engineers are sitting in a room, typing make && cp over and over again and staring Read More
Remember what Preed The Build Engineer says:“Bad Checkins Hold Everyone Hostage!” This Valentine’s Day1, the boyfriend and I bucked convention and took the opportunity to do something we had both randomly expressed interest in some weeks earlier, but neither of us had done before: learn how to shoot a gun. We found a shooting range2, Read More
Ack! I got tagged! Planet has been awash in this meme the last few days, so I’ll try to make mine short. Or interesting. Well… one of those, at least. In roughly chronological order: I was born without a hip socket, a congenital birth defect that wasn’t diagnosed until I was 17 months old and Read More
At 9:15 PST this morning, Songbird 1.0 executed a beautiful takeoff. Being a die-hard Linux user, I didn’t think anything would pull me away from my PDP8-era ncurses-based music player. But the difficult (often behind-the-scenes) work done since in the 0.71 timeframe and leading up to the 1.0 release transformed the Bird into an imminently Read More
CNet recently reviewed the upcoming Songbird 1.0 release, with a title I can certainly identify with. ([Possibly?] obviously, the 1.0-era is a stressful time for everyone, including your resident release engineer; as such, I haven’t had a chance to write about the many unique experiences a one-dot-oh release of a product entails1. Despite this, I’m Read More
I’ve been meaning to write about this for at least a month, but… time flies when you’re having fun releasing software. One of the things we’ve been spending a lot of time on lately at the Nest is the Bird’s performance. After Stuart’s work on jemalloc1, that seemed like some tasty, low-hanging fruit. I started Read More
“Without admitting guilt, I promise to appear at the time and place indicated below…” A few months ago, my driving was noticed by the California Highway Patrol… in a not-so-flattering way.1 *cough*2 Anyway, a small, triple-digit fine and some clickity-clacking on the Superior Court’s website later, I was all signed up for traffic school. I Read More
With gas1 hitting $4.99/gallon in California today for the cheap stuff (and the expensive stuff getting mighty cozy with the halfway marker to $6/gallon gas), things are starting to get interesting.2 [[100 LL]] is already over $6/gallon, prompting an as-of-today $26/Hobbs-hour fuel surcharge on top of the plane rental. Ouch. Despite the skyrocketing food and Read More