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Blog me Bentley: March 2009
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Upgrading to Jaunty: kill fglrx. I've just upgraded one of my boxen to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, and I wish it had been easier. The problem is that the new version ATI's proprietary fglrx driver doesn't seem to support my video card. For other reasons, single user mode was also broken. So I even had trouble getting a root shell. To remove fglrx, open a terminal and type: "sudo apt-get remove - purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx-kernel-source; sudo reboot". Posted by Aaron Bentley.
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Blog me Bentley: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011. Guessing relevant test modules with Fault Line. Launchpad's test suite takes a long time to run. Far too long to wait for. And the likelihood that you've broken any given test is pretty small. So you want to test a small subset, at least at first. You can usually guess which tests to run; if you've changed "archive.py", you should probably run "test archive". But some connections are easier to miss, so I've hacked up a Fault Line. Bin/test -m $(bzr fault-line - module-regex).
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News: Aaron Bentley
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Aaron Bentley and Friends at The Bean. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. I'm performing at The Bean on Thursday, accompanied by my friends Dominic and Sarah von Riedemann. Also on the bill: Signe Miranda and Joel Sweet. The showcase starts at 9:00 pm, but there's an open stage segment starting at 7:30pm. Be there, be somewhere else, but be here now. Wherever "here" is. Whenever "now" is. Aug 29 Kensington Market show. Wednesday, August 25, 2010. 5:00 pm: Frank Patrick 5:45 pm: The Kindly Ones. So, to sum up:.
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Blog me Bentley: January 2012
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Friday, January 27, 2012. TDD as path to sloth. One of the lesser-sung attributes of Test-Driven Development is that it can actually save you development effort. This happened to me yesterday, when I was refactoring some Launchpad code. Turned out Zope sets the Content-length http header if you don't. It could have happened today, because Zope also encodes Unicode strings to utf-8 for you, but I was unit-testing at a different level, so I implemented, then removed, manual utf-8 encoding.
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Blog me Bentley: November 2005
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005. I'm back from Ubuntu Below Zero. It was a great experience. Lots of stimulating conversations with smart people. Lots of people appreciating what we've done with bzr. Great progress on our future plans. Perhaps what I should have said was, "I've worked on five VCS clients in the past year". Friendly Arch Interface (My python front-end to tla). Bazaar (Canonical's fork of tla). BaZing (My attempt to implement Martin Pool's idea for a new VCS). Posted by Aaron Bentley.
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Blog me Bentley: December 2010
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Monday, December 20, 2010. Early impressions of the Viewsonic G tablet. I got a tablet. I used to dream about pervasive Internet. I used to dream about using a tablet to read web sites on a streetcar. That future is here, but it's in beta. More recently, a colleague of mine got an iPad. S not really ready for tablets- in six months, 3.0 devices should be plentiful and wonderful. But I've got travel coming up, and I lost my patience. So I got a Viewsonic G tablet. So what's the G tablet like? At 18 lbs, t...
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John Arbash Meinel's Bazaar Blog: 2008/07 - 2008/08
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John Arbash Meinel's Bazaar Blog. Posts about the development of Bazaar, a distributed version control system, meant to be something developers like to use, rather than something that gets in the way. http:/ bazaar-vcs.org/. Last Week in Bazaar. This Week in Bazaar. This Week in Bazaar. This Week in Bazaar. View my complete profile. Monday, July 28, 2008. Last Week in Bazaar. Style expansion, only to find out that they conflict on every attempt at merging, and we started working hard to strip them out of...
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Blog me Bentley: June 2006
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Saturday, June 10, 2006. Bloom filters and Smart Servers. I just got back from a joint Mercurial. Meetup. One of the neat things about it was the bloom filter collaboration. Bryan O'Sullivan described bloom filters. To us as a mechanism for greylisting. They're a way of cheaply storing large sets of keywords, with the tradeoff that testing whether a keyword is in a set may produce false positives. Later on, they were discussing their smart server. However, it's worth noting that it's rarely necessary to ...
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Blog me Bentley: October 2006
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Saturday, October 28, 2006. Workarounds for SQLAlchemy and Turbogears 1.0b. I've started work on a new TurboGears. Project to track merge requests for Bazaar. I was already familiar with earlier versions of TurboGears, but I decided to upgrade to 1.0b, and try out this new SQLAlchemy. Thing that everyone's raving about. It's supposed to be the official object-relational-mapper in TurboGears 1.1. You have the option of using it in 1.0b, but the integration is not smooth. Def iter active mappers(self):.
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Blog me Bentley: Living the sysadmin dream
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007. Living the sysadmin dream. There's a legendary threat of sysadmins: "Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shell script". Well, today I got a taste of that. At work, we've got a new web site almost ready to go. The content is stored the plainest-possible XHTML. That makes it somewhat future-proof. We process that through Kid templates to make it look snazzy. Boy, were we ever wrong. There were a few files we'd asked him not to convert, but we eventually decided to...
