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Memcached

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:06:49 GMT

I just watched Dormando make a release of memcached, fixing all known bugs, DURING the lightning talk where he talks about the state of memcached.

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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Tim O'Reilly carries a large Moleskine notebook

Drizzle, my participation

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:05:35 GMT

I am writing this blog post up on Friday morning, to post on Monday Tuesday morning at OScon.

The big news in the MySQL and the open source database worlds right now is Drizzle.

This is the "secret project" that I have occationally mentioned here. For the past few weeks, when I was done giving my PS client their daily 8 hours, I would flip VMs and start hacking on Drizzle, focusing mainly on the plugin system. I've ripped out a lot of junk and useless code, changed the plugin interface structures, converted UDFs into plugins, and am currently working on making logging and authentication into plugins.

The bzr tree is rapidly changing, and getting leaner, cleaner, better, and faster, with each passing day. The email list and the freenode IRC channel have been clear and focused.

It's been very exciting.

RepRap Matter Compiler at OScon

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:22 GMT

RepRap Matter Compiler at OScon
Originally uploaded by FallenPegasus

This is a RepRap "Darwin" "Child". This reprap machine was printed by another reprap machine just like itself.

Project 365, Day 202: OScon Day Zero

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:22 GMT

Project 365, Day 202: OScon Day Zero
Originally uploaded by FallenPegasus

Day 0 at OScon 2008

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:09:10 GMT

Yesterday morning, I drove down from Seattle to Portland, along with Brian Aker and Steven Walli. The event? OScon.

Very soon after arriving, I met Monty Widenius, Ronald Bradford, and Stewart Smith.

The presentations at the PostgreSQL meeting were interesting. The conversations at the dinners after were often more so. Josh Berkus is an interesting guy.

Oh, my aching liver...

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Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:07:37 GMT

Arrived Portland OR. Postgress meeting, OScon

Running BZR on Fedora Core 9

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:07:26 GMT

There is a brokenness in the Bazaar bzr command line tool and in Launchpad.net, that was revealed on Fedore Core 9.

Launchpad.net uses a CA authority that a SSL library in one particular Python module doesnt know about. This is several bugs at once. Launchpad trying to be "special" with CAs, bzr having two completely different Python HTTP client libraries, and being inconsistant about checking SSL host keys.

But, until they quit fingerpointing and get it fixed, here is a good workaround, until they get it fixed. Run the following command:

curl -NO http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem >~/cacert.pem

Now the Python SSL HTTP library in bzr will use that set of CAs instead of the system one, and it will quietly and correctly Just Work

Looks like they were two peas of a pod

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:10:42 GMT

I just learned a lot about the first president Roosevelt.

Looks like he was just as bad as the other one.

New word: "Chancibility"

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:09:15 GMT

Portmanteau of "chance" and "possibility"