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  1. What I did this weekend

    I got my rack in working order, moved thor (file server/MythTV backend) out to it (with associated wiring) and got my Comcast Digital receiver hooked up with an iguanaWorks iguanaIR usb IR transceiver.

    We also went for a nice walk with the Beecher family down to the creek, enjoying …

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  2. CPOSC Slides

    Here are my slides for the talk I did at CPOSC 2008.  The title of my talk was Architecting a Community: How Mozdev Runs and Grows and had the unfortunate conflict with the Git Sucks talk which drew in almost all the attendees.

    The event was great and I'm glad …

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  3. Moved photos

    My photo gallery has been moved to a sub-site; photo.silfreed.net.  I think I got things fixed up so that the links will redirect to the correct location, but let me know if you run into any problems navigating or see broken images.

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  4. Jared's Birth Story

    Jared

    Jared Douglas Warner was born September 30th, 2008 at 12:49pm EDT.  He was 8lbs 14.8oz and 21.25 inches long.

    Tiffany was scheduled for an induction on Tuesday at 7am, but contractions started around 2am that morning.  Jocelyn was already staying at Tiff's Parents' house since the induction …

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  5. Updating My Branding

    I've been thinking about updating my [online] identity for awhile now.  "silfreed", while unique, is difficult to spell/pronounce when talking to someone (let alone telling them my email address which includes it twice).  Ideally, I'd like to update my branding to include:

    1. A good, short, understandable domain name (ones …
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  6. Permission to spend $one grand

    Ever since Sam posted his Nikon D50 on Craigslist I've had the bug to get into SLR photography.

    I need to justify this somehow; I do it by claiming it's to photograph the new baby since the last photos were poorly lit. Other than indoor photography, I'm also into outdoor … read more
  7. MediaIndexer project setup

    I was able to setup the MediaIndexer (working project name) website and repository tonight so Brady and I have a place to coordinate. Trac + Mercurial was really pretty easy to setup; and I've had the sources in Mercurial for a week or so already (made it nice for copying code …

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  8. Mozdev status update for W27-2008

    • Fixed bug with tools styling of Summer theme
    • Setup FCKeditor with mediawiki plugin (bug#18975) - I was able to get the fckeditor plugin for Drupal modified to load the mediawiki plugin only for the wiki content type; the patch for the plugin still needs some work and the mediawiki plugin …
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  9. Mozdev's Role in the Add-On world

    Mozdev has long offered free source hosting, but along with that we offer a number of other features that are important to extension developers such as mirroring and distribution and secure installations and updates.

    Mozdev has been working hard to try to prepare for the Firefox 3 release. We were … read more
  10. Reflecting on my first year at Mozdev

    I've been at Mozdev for a full year now. This was a big step for me personally as well as for Mozdev; there was lots of trepidation from both parties, for a number of reasons:

    - I was Mozdev's first full-time employee (and without a formal office, all interviews were over … read more
  11. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-07-01

    Participants: davidwboswell, (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community participants: JesperHansen

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - working on WYSIWYG for Mozdev wiki - planning on using mediawiki syntax with FCKeditor (noticed DevMo is switching to DekiWiki) - at ccaygill's prompting (and patch) updated the local.conf … read more
  12. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-24

    Participants: gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community participants: ccaygill

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - finished new bugzilla bug entry form - helped with Firefox 3 server load (adding additional caches, mostly) - fixed XPI sorting on project overview page - working on improving wiki formatting at Mozdev - investigating … read more
  13. Mozdev status update for W25-2008

    Getting back into the swing of things after vacation.

    - Updating Mozdev bugzilla bug entry form - this is ready to go into production to help making requests to Mozdev easier - Handling Firefox 3 release server load - the Firefox 3 release caused lots of additional web traffic to mozdev.org in a … read more
  14. 6 months of photos

    Our recent trip to Lake Raystown:

    • trips/Raystown+2008

    Events:

    • events/Jocelyns+1st+Birthday+Party
    • events/Dougs+28th+Birthday+Party+at+Shipes
    • events/Easter+Egg+Hunt+at+South+Newton+Fire+Company
    • events/Easter+Presents+at+Warners
    • events/Swimming+Lessons+with+Mom
    • events/Pre-Fathers+Day
    • events/Summertime+Playing+at+Warners
    • events …
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  15. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-17

    Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community participants: ccaygill

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - finished up changes to simpler bug entry form - increased timeout on new Mozdev pages that require login (file managment, project tag editing) - wrote Mercurial documentation for Mozdev - Firefox … read more
  16. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-10

    Minutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

    Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community participants: ccaygill, JesperHansen

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - added a new mirror for zurich/switzerland - documented some module settings that caused problems … read more
  17. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-06-03

    Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community participants: JesperHansen, djc

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - OSCon/Firefox Summit planning - Styling hgweb (still needs some work) - Sponsor work - Songbird page is now live - new Multi-VCS log RSS feed - lots of unit test improvements … read more
  18. Mozdev status update W21-2008, sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-27

    Participating: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - improved bugzilla Mac OS X detection by adding more versions to OS list - worked with ccaygill of Mycroft to get HTTP header problem fixed that prevented downloads in … read more
  19. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-20

    Minutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 2008

    Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - sponsor work - fixed bugs in update.rdf generation - documenting move of hg to production - testing multiple-domain ssl certs … read more
  20. Mozdev status update W20-2008

    • Work on sponsor pages
    • Fixed bugs in update.rdf generation
    • Documenting how to move hg to production
    • Testing multiple-domain SSL certificates - Found out that certificates with multiple domains (specified in the Subject Alternate Name, SAN field) works with most current browsers, mercurial, and SVN and does not require additional IPs …
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  21. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-13

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - setup mercurial commit logging last week - upgraded (staging) mercurial to 1.0 - not much other mercurial work accomplished - updated external links in the mozdev.org header - released the … read more
  22. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-05-06

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - hg testing released; two projects have asked for testing repos already - secure update.rdf generation released; there's been some additional interest on the list, but no direct questions - sent policy update … read more
  23. Mozdev status update for W18-2008

    I ended up spending a large part of last week fixing some architectural problems I created with the ProjectVCS/VCS classes and debugging some test cases, but overall the admin page for selecting a project's current VCS and initializing a repository is ready (announcement coming soon asking for beta testers …

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  24. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-29

    Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Community present: ccaygill, djc, JesperHansen

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - worked on the backend for choosing VCS and initializing mercurial - didn't get much time to work on the admin interface … read more
  25. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-22

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), djc (autocopy extension owner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - spam attack last week has been cleaned up; old notes system is currently disabled - mercurial is setup on staging at hg.vebzom.org; authentication … read more
  26. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-15

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - got mercurial plan together; started getting mercurial setup on vebzom - deployed update.rdf generation, but need some testers - various bug triaging - we have some mod_rewrite bugs still lingering … read more
  27. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-08

    Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - testing apache 2.2/php 5 changes - created project tagging policy/docs - started update.rdf generation for secure updates - started setting up test suite for … read more
  28. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-04-01

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - project overview page/secure installs was generally well-received - several minor bugs in file management, presentation, and extension parsing were handled quickly - working on a tagging policy to help project owners know … read more
  29. Jocelyn the Vi user

    Jocelyn's definitely going to be a vi user; when she's done typing she immediately hits 'escape' and will pound 'escape' repeatedly when things aren't acting the way she thinks they should.

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  30. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-25

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), ccaygill (MyCroft project)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - about ready to release the secure installation/project overview stuff; been working w/ a PO on testing things; trying to figure out a bug in … read more
  31. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-18

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - spring theme is updated - the project overview page is mostly complete; just trying to get POs to help with testing - started looking into subversion and … read more
  32. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-11

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - working on getting a project overview page - this will have links for a project (bugs, source, etc) as well as list some basic information, stats, and downloads for … read more
  33. Welcome Mya González

    Scott and Kristin González received their new little girl, Mya Lynn González, yesterday.

    She was 6 lb 11.6 oz and 18.5 inches long.

    Congratulations Scott and Kristin!

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  34. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-03-04

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - working on the UI to allow project owners to verify and release their downloads and extensions - working on mockups for a project overview page that would contain the publicly available downloads … read more
  35. I don't like the new Runts

    I don't like the new runts.

    They replaced the green (lime) and red (cherry) ones that used to be there with a new yellow (pineapple) and red (mango). Here's a look at the perpetrators:

    After you remove them, this is all you're left with:

    Orange, pink (strawberry), and yellow banana …

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  36. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-26

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - skipped; silfreed not present

    Discussed sysadmin priorities

    - gjm has written some python classes to deal with mailman configs; this makes it easier to do validation & reconfiguration - defaults for … read more
  37. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-19

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - sick last week; didn't get a lot of stuff done - mostly spent time fixing minor bugs with the new application/extension parsing … read more
  38. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-12

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - project searching now searches words 3 characters and more (so searches on things like 'rss' or 'moz' work now) - we're automatically parsing … read more
  39. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-02-05

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - project search interface is live; needs some tweaks and am coordinating with sysadmins - parsing extensions for supported applications is underway; I'll be … read more
  40. Dell Latitude D630 ordered

    Yesterday I said I was looking at the D830 or the T61, but I had forgotten about the Dell Latitude D630 that I had looked at a couple times. After talking with Tiff about getting a new laptop and getting the okay, I finally went with the D630.

    I think …

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  41. Sick days suck

    I hate sick days. Especially ones like this; I'm lucid enough to know that I should be being more productive, yet not lucid enough to trust anything I would do. Damn Dayquil(tm).

    So this weekend (Friday, actually) I finally managed to get ahold of a Wii (damn those marketing … read more
  42. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-29

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), ericjung(Eric Jung), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - Mozdev source code should be publically available now in hovercraft/sandbox/php - admin tools are updated to work with PHP upgrade - project search interface is … read more
  43. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-22

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - continuing to get mozdev code working with PHP 5.2 - migrating mozdev code into CVS - updated in Hovercraft project now - mozdev code is checked out on vebzom.org … read more
  44. Reflecting on FUDCon

    This past weekend was great; I met a lot of people I've only seen in IRC or on mailing lists, hacked on MyFedora (mockup) a bunch, attended and filmed a bunch of sessions, and just tried to get some of the "Fedora vibe" and see how everyone interacts.

    Todd and … read more
  45. Mozdev DNS outage

    Mozdev.org is currently experiencing a DNS outage due to our one hosting company being offline. We're aware of the problem but currently don't have an ETR. We'll be looking into making DNS available from more hosts in the near future so that problems like this don't cause outages for …

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  46. Disabling PHP's register_globals in userland

    So you have a large PHP deployment that is (still? - this is 2008!) using register_globals. How do you test individual pieces of the site without being able to change the ini variable via .htaccess? Try this code out:

    <?phpif (ini_get('register_globals')){        $__sgs = array('_ENV', '_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_SERVER');        foreach …
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  47. FUDCon 2008 this weekend

    Heading down with Todd Zullinger today to Raleigh, NC to hit up FUDCon.

    I'm pretty excited about this trip; I've been a user of Red Hat products for about 9 years now, and while I've done some packaging for several years I've only recently become a Fedora contributor and have … read more
  48. Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2008-01-08

    Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)

    Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

    Discussed developer priorities

    - project tagging is moving along well; the PO interface for editing tags is complete; the user interface for browsing tags (tag cloud and project lists) is complete; the … read more
  49. Sheller Wedding in St. Mary's

    This past weekend we went to St. Mary's, PA to attend a wedding; that was quite the drive.

    We drove about 3.5 hrs on the way there (left around 05:15) on the 29th, then came back Sunday morning the 30th and took about 4.5 hrs.

    The wedding … read more

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