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A Proud Moment: VMware Workstation 8

18 Comments Posted by on September 14, 2011

Today is kind of a career highlight for me. A moment I’m especially proud of. We just released VMware Workstation 8. Code-named “Nitrogen,” this release has been in the planning stages since around the time I joined VMware 7 years ago. It has been in active development for the past 3 years. Easily the longest [...]

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ThinkPad T520/W520, NVIDIA, Wide Gamuts, and You!

15 Comments Posted by on September 2, 2011

Update: Linking to a better color profile below. Update 2: I narrowed down the ACPI issues, and have a better solution. I recently purchased a brand new, maxed out ThinkPad T520. My old laptop was 4 years old, and while I absolutely loved it (and still do!), an opportunity came up to get a T520 [...]

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I Invented Port Knocking

12 Comments Posted by on February 10, 2011

Let me tell you about something that’s been bothering me for a while. I invented Port Knocking. No, really. In 2002. According to portknocking.org, it was invented by Martin Krzywinski in 2003. I’m not here to debate that he didn’t come up with the idea separately, and choose the same names (it’s a pretty good [...]

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Sentience discovered in the Linux kernel

19 Comments Posted by on August 17, 2010

Ladies and gentlemen, after much experimentation, I have made a remarkable discovery. Perhaps the very first case of a sentient AI has been discovered, sitting right under our noses, in the Linux Kernel. With such a complicated codebase that has evolved greatly over the years, there are certainly more surprising places for it to spring [...]

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Looking Back on Review Board

4 Comments Posted by on May 4, 2010

Just over 3.5 years ago, David Trowbridge and I spent some time discussing the annoyances of the typical patch submission and code review processes in the open source projects we participated in and at companies, and decided to play with some ideas for improving this. At the time, we knew very little about what we [...]

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Goodbye, my friend

13 Comments Posted by on November 4, 2009

I lost a good friend Sunday. Vinay Venkatesh, also known as djgraphite, was a friend and co-worker at VMware. We had known each other for many years, since before he joined VMware, from the #adium and #growl channels on irc.freenode.net back when I worked on libgaim and he worked on Growl. Vinay was always helpful [...]

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Review Board 1.0 Released!

13 Comments Posted by on June 20, 2009

Tonight, we hit a milestone in the Review Board project that we’ve been working toward for over two years. We finally pushed out our 1.0 release. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this release (okay, so not literally, but it was A LOT OF WORK!). The last few months in particular have [...]

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Review Board: Summer of Code, Roadmap and Future Plans

2 Comments Posted by on April 2, 2009

Summer of Code This year, we (the Review Board project) was given the opportunity to participate in Google’s Summer of Code. We’ve received some great student proposals so far, and I think we’ll see exciting work done on Review Board this summer. The deadline for Summer of Code is coming up fast (April 3rd, 19:00 [...]

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Improving browser performance in Review Board

6 Comments Posted by on January 27, 2009

This past Sunday, I landed a set of changes into Review Board that provide improved performance, such as aggressive browser-side caching of media and pages. It’s just a start, but has already significantly reduced page load times in all of my tests, in some case by several seconds. We implemented these methods for Review Board, [...]

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Infect your application with Parasite!

15 Comments Posted by on January 19, 2009

Ever find yourself stuck debugging an application because the UI is just doing something weird that you can’t track down? Maybe a widget isn’t appearing correctly, or you just need more information about the overall structure and logging statements aren’t doing you much good. Debugging complex UIs can be a pain. We’ve had some real [...]

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