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 …
read moreHere 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 …
read moreMy 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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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 …
read moreThings
New 2009 Toyota Camry
Hybrid
Nikon D40
Camera Bag
Comparison (Kata
DR-467, Crumpler 4 Million Dollor Home)
Outdoors
Crab Apple
Frohm Home with Red
Maple
Tiffany with Praying
Mantis
Sunset Rocks
Events
Brough Family
Gathering
Carlisle Corvette
Show
Grandparents' Day
Lunch
South Newton/West End Fire
Raffle
Baby #2 …
read moreI'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:
According to Wikipedia, I have cubital tunnel syndrome, although the orthopedist I saw this morning didn't describe it as such.
I've had a pain in my left elbow for quite some time now; probably over a year and a half (probably closer to 2 years) that although not severe, has …
read moreI'm thinking about ditching my Subaru WRX. The main reason? More space. I love my WRX; it hasn't let me down (although there are those close to me that feel that my rate of 1 accident/yr since purchase is too high) but there just isn't enough space with our …
read moreWow; none of those things are in the correct order.
Going backwards (and the first event of this blog, considering when it started) is the replacement of my living room HTPC. It's been acting funny for some time (ignoring a lot of IR input) and locked up mid-week last week …
read moreSome more photos (end of OSCON, trip on the way through Vancouver to Whistler for moz08).
- Last day of OSCON - Pre-moz08 stop in Seattle on the way to Vancouver - Pre-moz08 trip to Vancouver; border crossing - Pre-moz08 first night in Vancouver - Pre-moz08 day in Vancouver - Moz08 trip to Whistler from Vancouver … read moreLook! Only two months worth of photos this time; I'm getting better!
Here's some things, events and pictures of Jocelyn: http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/things/New+Fridge+and+Playground/http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/trips/Raystown+2008/Logan+and+Jocelyn+...
http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/trips …
read moreMy second day at OSCON was also terrific. I continued to meet new people and got to spend more time talking with others. There were two sessions that I wanted to see, and they were:
- Integration Testing PHP Applications - this was a little more overview that I had hoped, but … read moreBig day at OSCON today. I got into town at 01:00 this morning and taking the cab to the hotel wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (but more expensive than I had planned).
I was able to get a hold of and meet Brian King and … read moreI 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 …
read moreWe're happy to announce the availability of Mercurial for hosting project sources at Mozdev.
Documentation can be found here:
http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevMercurial
The biggest caveats: - CVS is still necessary for maintaining the website and downloads (fixing this is on our roadmap) - Projects' source information page needs … read moreIn 8 days (next Tuesday) I'll be heading to Portland for OSCON 2008. Several days later I'll be heading up to Canada for the Firefox Summit.
This is simultaneously awesome and scary. Awesome parts: - Meeting my colleagues and board members from Mozdev for the first time - Being able to attend … read moreI'm going to be doing my Mozdev status updates and sysadmin meeting minutes over on the Mozdev blog now (rss feed). Hopefully this will be picked up by PMO soon.
read moreI ran into an article that addresses a long-standing problem I've had with OpenSSH's known_hosts file; it doesn't store the port for a host so you can't ssh to different ports behind a router without getting warnings about fingerprint mismatches. The article descries how to access multiple machines at the …
read moreFor awhile now I've noticed that things in my home dir aren't setup optimally for my work flow. I've been trying to run with SELinux enabled and I run into development problems when I try to run web applications out of my home directory. Various parts of my home directory …
read moreWe've been working on getting Mercurial ready to use at Mozdev for awhile now; it turns out there's a lot to do to offer a new VCS for a hosting provider that's only offered CVS for 7 years:
- Write admin interfaces for selecting a project's repository and setting up new … read moreMozdev 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 moreI'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 moreParticipants: 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 moreSemi-busy week with not much to show for it:
- Working on providing a GUI for Mozdev's wiki - For now I think I've settled on using MediaWiki syntax and using FCKeditor. The Drupal module for FCKeditor needs some improvements to support to load different toolbars for different content types (so we … read moreParticipants: 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 moreGetting 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 moreOur recent trip to Lake Raystown:
Events:
We're looking to improve the experience of editing pages in our Wiki, and I'm wondering if we should just ditch "wiki" syntax and just support HTML and use a nice in-browser HTML editor.
It should be easy for us to continue to support CamelCase and square brackets to link to … read moreParticipants: 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 moreShort week last week due to vacation.
- Working on streamlined Mozdev bug-entry form to help with submitting VCS change requests (and other requests) - Increased idle timeout on new Mozdev tools - Writing documentation for requesting and using Mercurial at Mozdev We're expecting Mercurial to be released soon at Mozdev; we'll be … read moreMinutes 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 moreParticipants: 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 moreParticipating: 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 moreMinutes 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 moreToday's the day I said I'd be ditching AIM, so now I'm doing it. If you'd like to IM me, catch me on IRC or XMPP/Jabber.
read morePresent: 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 moreConcordance has finally made it's way into Fedora!
I've been maintaining packages separately from Fedora for awhile now; the review has been there since October 2007! Unfortunately there were some legal concerns about the trademark over the name of the project ("harmony") originally, then when 0.20 was finally released … read morePresent: 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 moreI 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 …
read morePresent: 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 morePresent: 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 moreMuch of last week was spent getting a test web interface setup for Mercurial. We also had a spam attack on our old notes system that required us to disable the script shortly after it was re-enabled. We're still trying to cleanup from that problem but it should be resolved …
read moreI'm trying to hgwebdir.cgi setup and that part is going pretty well; I have a default config file that is being loaded by the script and serving a collection of repositories properly.
What I'm having problems with is configuring authentication. I'm using mod_auth_mysql to try to do authentication under … read morePresent: 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 moreXUL extensions are constructed very simply. Documentation on how they are constructed is excellent.
At Mozdev.org we have been focused recently on helping users find projects more easily as well as preparing for the upcoming Firefox 3 release by creating tools for our projects to perform secure installs and … read morePresent: 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 moreLast week was mostly monopolized by testing/debugging after our Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 upgrade. There's still some bugs to iron out, but it appears that the main site and most project sites are running well.
Other tasks include: - Creating project tagging policy/docs - Generation of update.rdf … read morePresent: 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 moreLast week's big event was the launch of secure installs with our project overview page. In only 5 days we already have 27% (119/440) of our extensions registered with our system. Unfortunately we only have 9% of the registered files setup to enable secure downloads (ie, they have verified …
read moreMozdev's project overview pages are now live and feature secure installations using InstallTrigger.
{IMG:503x334:/sites/silfreed.net/files/project-overview-cdn.png} Right now we don't have the download graph or the project stats in place, but the main functionality is there: - Project name and description - Project tags - projects are tagged … read morePresent: 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 morePresent: 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 moreReactions to our project overview mockup were very favorable, and I've made good progress this week getting the page setup and much more functional.
Here you can see our very own 'www' project's overview page:{IMAGE:465x231:/sites/silfreed.net/files/mozdev-project-overview-www.png}
As you can easily see, we don't … read morePresent: 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 moreThe biggest topic of the past week has been mitigating load problems on Mozdev's server when Firefox releases an update. We now have a plan in place to reduce the load by using a lightweight web server to handle update requests. We're also going to help out the Mycroft project …
read moreSomething Mozdev.org has lacked for awhile now has been a project overview page that shows you a nice overview of a project with links to tools for a project as well as some basic information and stats.
As part of working on secure installations for projects I needed a … read morePresent: 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 moreJocelyn's first birthday has come and gone. It was a blast to have all her family around on her birthday while she opened presents and ate cake. It's definitely been a very busy year and has flown by. I'm looking forward to spending many more years with Jocelyn.
The second …
read moreI 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 …
read morePresent: 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 moreI've looked for incremental backups that don't require root before, but I finally found it. Similar to rdiff-backup is a program called duplicity. It uses tar, gpg, and the rsync algorithm to store encrypted differential backups.
duplicity needs to be scripted a little bit to automate the backups. I came …
read moreThere were a …
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 morePresent: 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 moreI'm thinking about getting a Garmin Forerunner 50 but am concerned that the ANT USB thing won't work with Linux. I've seen a thread about ANT development drivers going into the kernel, but I haven't found any firsthand experiences. Anyone with any information about it? If it helps, the Garmin …
read morePresent: 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 morePresent: 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 morePresent: 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 morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser), buanzo
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Mozdev DNS outage - The Web Stop has had a series of outages that affect Mozdev for lengthy periods - the feeling is that TWS can't be used any … read moreMozdev.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 …
read moreI've been taking a bit of a break from Mozdev over Christmas, so not as much got accomplished, and I'll be down at FUDCon tomorrow so I figured I'd do my status update early.
- bug#7021 - Project tags - I've added project tagging to Mozdev.org so that projects owners can … read moreSo 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 …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 morePresent: 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 moreThis 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