Author Archives: James Henstridge

bzr commit –author

12 May, 2008 – 5:19 pm

One of the features I recently discovered in Bazaar is the –author option for “bzr commit“.  This lets you make commits to a Bazaar branch on behalf of another person.  When used, the new revision credits two people: you as the committer and the other person as the author.
While Bazaar does make it easy for […]

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SSL caching on Firefox 3

1 May, 2008 – 5:57 pm

Since upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy, I’ve been enjoying using Firefox 3.  The reduced memory usage has made a lot of other things nicer to use (I don’t feel like I need to buy more memory now).  One thing that is nice to see fixed is caching of SSL content.
In previous versions of Firefox, SSL content […]

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Psycopg migrated to Bazaar

28 April, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Last week we moved psycopg from Subversion to Bazaar.  I did the migration using Gustavo Niemeyer’s svn2bzr tool with a few tweaks to map the old Subversion committer IDs to the email address form conventionally used by Bazaar.
The tool does a good job of following tree copies and create related Bazaar branches.  It doesn’t have […]

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Psycopg2 2.0.7 Released

15 April, 2008 – 2:55 pm

Yesterday Federico released version 2.0.7 of psycopg2 (a Python database adapter for PostgreSQL).  I made a fair number of the changes in this release to make it more usable for some of Canonical’s applications.  The new release should work with the development version of Storm, and shouldn’t be too difficult to get everything working with […]

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Honey Bock Results

10 April, 2008 – 8:13 pm

Since bottling the honey bock last month, I’ve tried a bottle last week and this week. While it is a very nice beer, the honey flavour is not very noticeable. That said, the second bottle I tried had a slightly stronger honey flavour than the first so it might just need to mature […]

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Using email addresses as OpenID identities (almost)

2 April, 2008 – 4:25 pm

On the OpenID specs mailing list, there was another discussion about using email addresses as OpenID identifiers. So far it has mostly covered existing ground, but there was one comment that interested me: a report that you can log in to many OpenID RPs by entering a Yahoo email address.
Now there certainly isn’t any […]

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Looms Rock

1 April, 2008 – 4:52 pm

While doing a bit of work on Storm, I decided to try out the loom plugin for Bazaar. The loom plugin is designed to help maintain a stack of changes to a base branch (similar to quilt). Some use cases where this sort of tool are useful include:

Maintaining a long-running diff to a […]

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bzr-dbus hacking

27 March, 2008 – 10:45 pm

When working on my bzr-avahi plugin, Robert asked me about how it should fit in with his bzr-dbus plugin. The two plugins offer complementary features, and could share a fair bit of infrastructure code. Furthermore, by not cooperating, there is a risk that the two plugins could break when both installed together.
Given the […]

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Running Valgrind on Python Extensions

24 March, 2008 – 7:47 am

As most developers know, Valgrind is an invaluable tool for finding memory leaks. However, when debugging Python programs the pymalloc allocator gets in the way.
There is a Valgrind suppression file distributed with Python that gets rid of most of the false positives, but does not give particularly good diagnostics for memory allocated through pymalloc. […]

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Honey Bock

6 March, 2008 – 11:12 am

Yesterday I bottled the honey bock that has been brewing over the last week. This one was made with the following ingredients:

A Black Rock Bock beer kit.
1kg of honey
500g of Dextrose
Caster sugar for carbonation

The only difference from the standard procedure was replacing part of the brewing sugar with honey. Before being added, the […]

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