Author Archives: James Henstridge

DVCS talks at GUADEC

9 July, 2008 – 5:04 am

Yesterday, a BoF was scheduled for discussion of distributed version control systems with GNOME.  The BoF session did not end up really discussing the issues of what GNOME needs out of a revision control system, and some of the examples Federico used were a bit snarky. We had a more productive meeting in the session [...]

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MySQL Announces Move to Bazaar

20 June, 2008 – 5:31 pm

It has been a while coming, but MySQL has announced their move to Bazaar for version control.  This has been a long time coming, and it is great to finally see it announced publicly. The published Bazaar branches include 8 years of history going back to MySQL 3.23.22, imported from the BitKeeper repositories.  So you [...]

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How not to do thread local storage with Python

11 June, 2008 – 6:00 pm

The Python standard library contains a function called thread.get_ident().  It will return an integer that uniquely identifies the current thread at that point in time.  On most UNIX systems, this will be the pthread_t value returned by pthread_self(). At first look, this might seem like a good value to key a thread local storage dictionary [...]

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Prague

19 May, 2008 – 11:14 pm

I arrived in Prague yesterday for the Ubuntu Developer Summit.  Including time spent in transit in Singapore and London, the flights took about 30 hours. As I was flying on BA, I got to experience Heathrow Terminal 5. It wasn’t quite as bad as some of the horror stories I’d heard.  There were definitely aspects [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 for another [...]

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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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