Hacking DTDs into Bespin

Just a quick side note, I'm hacking on a DTD mode for Bespin. The code is pretty ughly still, but the output is getting OK. It already supports marking up errors, to a similar extent that they're found in compare-locales these days. Better...

oh my eyes, but good still

I've uploaded a snapshot of a build in progress on my test display which gives a bit better insight on what's possible to show about a build based on the information that buildbot has, or a build database had. The important pieces here compared...

Thoughts on killing tinderbox, foundations

I figured it'd be a good idea to just dump my thinkings on killing tinderbox (as in the the web interface to mozilla's builds). As just the background information grows to a lengthy post, I'll cut them into pieces. To point you where I'm heading,...

See your django models in SVG

Last week I found django-command-extensions, which together with graphviz allow you to create pretty displays of your django models. Sadly not the other way around, but still better than nothing. The awkward piece is when you like to get SVG...

Not a Bonsai

News from the tooling sink. I just brought up what I needed to replace bonsai for hg on stage/pushes. My request list was as follows Query multiple repositories at once Query for landings to particular directories and files I would love to get...

7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me

Got tagged by Pascal Chevrel. The rules: Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their...

FOSDEM 2009

FOSDEM 2009 will be on February 7/8. Please block your schedules for that weekend, as it will be great as ever. If you're in Europe, you know that you want to come. If you're not, you know that John suggested to try Europe out, and there's hardly...

I'm old

While reverse-engineering make-jars.pl for bug 361583, I wondered why we did that weird locking in there. Turned out that that was a fix I reviewed, for a bug I filed, 55174. 5 digit bugnumer, dating back to 2000. Those were the days of make -j32...

Wisdom of machine translation

At times machine translations achieve results that no human could word that well. This is what google language tools have to say about fixing stuff on short timelines: We are using everybody's frustrated, Sorry. Found here.