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
Just a quick note before your Friday happy hour get started: QuickRelease 0.14 has shipped. This release focuses on a request we’ve had from many people: more documentation and examples. 0.14 sports: Full epydoc-style documentation for QuickRelease (generated docs are available, so you don’t have to do it yourself) A example set of processes and Read More
Just a quick announcement that the newest version of QuickRelease has shipped! (Lucky!) 0.13, most notably, has the following updates/improvements: Entries from your release configuration files can now be coerced by the ConfigSpec class into dictionaries; you can do this be defining an item in the configuration file with the syntax [key1 value1] [key2 value2] Read More
A few weeks ago, I tweeted about a great blog post on a technique for managing the massive amounts of email many of us navigate daily. I’d become frustrated with the state of my own inbox1 and had been on the prowl for a new method to manage the email torrent. Having used it for Read More
I started using Perforce in 2003, for my first post-collegiate job. Coming from a CVS-centric world1 it was weird and confusing to me. But as I used it, I began to really like its workflow and the tool’s conceptual consistency. Fast forward eight years, and I’m using Perforce again3. I convinced the Powers That Be Read More
Well, that apparently struck a nerve1. Much has been said about those who argue on the Internet2, so I’ll state the obvious: I’m pretty sure my chance of convincing Buildbot’s developers that the tool they work on suffers from ongoingly poor engineering design decisions is about the same of them convincing me to be an Read More
Buildbot is the worst continuous integration system I have ever used. There, I said it. Now, I will admit: my sample size isn’t huge, but my trials with the tool has, on many an occasion, had me pining for Tinderbox11, which to those who’ve used it, is probably saying a lot. I had always assumed Read More