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Various stuff from some guy.

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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Review Board 1.0 alpha 1 released

9 Comments Posted by on January 19, 2009

Roughly two years ago, David Trowbridge and I began development of Review Board for use in our open source projects and our team at VMware. During that time, we’ve turned Review Board into a powerful code review tool that works with a variety of version control systems. Most of VMware has moved over to it, [...]

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Armed robbery in progress

4 Comments Posted by on December 25, 2008

Our Christmas this year was very nice, with lots of good presents, time spent with family, delicious food, and an opportunity to foil an armed robbery. Yes, an armed robbery. How do I continually get myself into these situations? While heading back home from my stepdad’s parents’ house, I spotted a guy standing in a [...]

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Ubuntu and Desktop Notifications

8 Comments Posted by on December 24, 2008

This past Monday, Mark Shuttleworth wrote about their plans for an overhaul of desktop notifications (the little popup bubbles telling you someone IM’d you or there’s updates available). Many people have asked me about this, some concerned, and wanted to know what I thought. Being the maintainer of libnotify, notification-daemon and the Desktop Notifications specification, [...]

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Fixing broken key codes in VMware on Ubuntu 8.10

2 Comments Posted by on December 23, 2008

I recently upgraded a system to both Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Workstation 6.5, and while using it, I realized a number of keys were broken. The down arrow invoked the Windows Start Menu, for instance. Pressing Alt caused the key to be stuck. I knew this stuff worked in 8.04, but it certainly wasn’t in [...]

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Twittering as Review Board Approaches 1.0

12 Comments Posted by on December 6, 2008

On the road to 1.0 We’re getting very close to feature freeze for Review Board 1.0. The last couple of major features are up for review. These consist largely of a UI rewrite that simplifies a lot of Review Board’s operations and moves us over to using jQuery. This will go in once it’s been [...]

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libnotify 0.4.5 and notification-daemon 0.4.0 released

3 Comments Posted by on November 20, 2008

It’s been a long time since I’ve really put out a libnotify or notification-daemon release. Review Board and VMware have taken up a lot of time the past year, so development has been slow, but I think these releases are worth it. libnotify 0.4.5 [Release Notes] [Downloads] This is mostly a small bug fix release, [...]

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Racism, Sexism, and now Prop 8

26 Comments Posted by on November 3, 2008

I found out this evening, to my dismay, that my site was littered with “Yes On Prop 8″ banners. Now, for those who live outside California and haven’t been following this, Prop 8 is a measure designed to introduce an amendment to the California constitution to ban gay marriage, basically ensuring that certain people would [...]

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Random friend seeking on Google Talk?

10 Comments Posted by on October 18, 2008

Has anybody else noticed this? Over the past several months, I’ve had a few people add me to their Google Talk account, claiming they want to make friends. The conversations start simple enough, asking basic “getting to know you” questions. Nothing seems too prying, and it certainly doesn’t seem like a bot. However, in each [...]

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