Archive for August, 2008

Integration using git and buildbot

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Another daily task here is somewhat opposite to autofollowing an open source project. As I've mentioned there, we develop our modifications in git branches. This also stands for commercial projects. And, of course, our customers expect us to integrate our modifications back into their codebase. Since I'm the integration point, ...

Autofollowing an open source project

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Looks like the next biggest time eater (NBTE? ;)) during our development are the efforts to follow public projects repositories. See, we develop web software mostly by integrating already available open source components. But what if a component is not yet stable and is actively developed? Also, we often have to ...

Interchangeable hardware or “home cloud”

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Yesterday my border router in the home network crashed. It was a P4 PC under Linux with several network cards routing a traffic between three Internet connections (yes, I'm paranoid), my home network and my house network. That morning either CPU or motherboard fried and... Now I'm thinking about something more interchangeable than ...