openstack | 2012-01-20
Diagnose and fix PEP8 issues during code reviewI figured I’d write a quick post about how to deal with “pep8 issues” that come up during code reviews on OpenStack core projects. These issues come up often for […]
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openstack | 2012-01-20
Diagnose and fix PEP8 issues during code reviewI figured I’d write a quick post about how to deal with “pep8 issues” that come up during code reviews on OpenStack core projects. These issues come up often for […]
Git | 2012-01-19
The Science (or Art?) of Commit MessagesThere are some things in the world of development that you appreciate much more when you do a lot of code reviews. One of those things is commit messages. At […]
Open Source | 2012-01-13
Presentation: OpenStack QA – Walkthrough of Processes, Tools and CodeLast night I gave a short webinar to some folks about the basics of contributing to the Tempest project, which is the OpenStack integration test suite. It was the first […]
Open Source | 2011-12-23
OpenStack One of 10 Most Important Open Source Projects in 2011Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier recently posted his list of the top 10 most important open source projects of 2011, and OpenStack was in there. I agree that OpenStack is one of […]
openstack | 2011-11-28
OpenStack Dev Tip — Easily Pull a Review BranchJust a quick tip for developers working on OpenStack projects that work on multiple development machines or want to pull a colleague’s code from the Gerrit review system and test […]
Open Source | 2011-10-02
Essex Design Summit — QA Sessions to NoteThere are quite a few folks interested in QA coming to the OpenStack Essex Design Summit next week. I wanted to give you all a heads-up on the sessions that […]
openstack | 2011-02-10
What the Heck is Hyperscale?<rant> Please, can we not use the term “hyperscale”. It doesn’t have any meaning at all. If you say “a cloud that has 10,000 physical hosts” or “a cloud that […]
Bazaar | 2010-07-22
Developing Nova on Linux – Getting StartedIn the past few weeks, I’ve gotten involved in the newly-debuted OpenStack project. Right now, my focus is on the Compute sub-project of the stack, called Nova. The initial pieces […]
MySQL | 2010-05-13
MySQL Stored Procedures Ain’t All ThatI give quite a lot of presentations. A whole lot less than I used to, but still quite a few per year. Most of the time, the presentations are on […]
Drizzle | 2010-05-13
Now Recording Drizzle Contributor TutorialHi all! I was swamped with registrations for the online contributor tutorial for Drizzle, and so I’ve bumped up my account to a DimDim Pro account. This means two things: […]