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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Syntax Highlighting in the Diff Viewer

9 Comments Posted by on June 26, 2007

I was up late last night experimenting with a new feature for Review Board. The idea was to introduce syntax highlighting for the code in the diff viewer through use of the Pygments library. Actually getting syntax highlighting to work was pretty easy, and before long I had it working. The trick, it turned out, [...]

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Why’s there a little person in my button?

18 Comments Posted by on June 25, 2007

I was walking around the new VMware Promontory campus today and found this button. I’m tempted to press it, but I’m not sure what it will do. Send little stick figures to attack me? Stick me in a little house? Any ideas? Update: My apologies to anyone who couldn’t comment. My cache plugin cached the [...]

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Recent Happenings in Review Board

8 Comments Posted by on June 21, 2007

It’s only been a couple of weeks since the last update about Review Board, but too much is happening to stay quiet. New Features Interdiffs Ever go through a long patch review process only to find it’s getting harder and harder to review any new changes due to the size of the patch? I’m sure [...]

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Unity is now “real” – VMware Fusion Beta 4 released

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 7, 2007

Yesterday I briefly wrote about the new feature in VMware Fusion called Unity and linked to a video demonstrating what it can do. The buzz we got from that has been a lot of fun. Some people commented on various sites saying it was fake, even, which I found pretty funny having watched this thing [...]

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Unity

7 Comments Posted by on June 6, 2007

I remember the day I interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system. [...]

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Review Board has a home and a demo server!

6 Comments Posted by on June 3, 2007

I was stunned by the response to my post announcing Review Board. We had so much feedback and so many users signed up. Last I checked, our production server (which has so far been used as a demo/test server by others) has had over 550 registered users. Part of this was due to us being [...]

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