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Cancelling builds from the console, now easier than ever!

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Josh Matthews

The self-serve tools, specifically cancel.py has received some important usability upgrades at the urging of jst and ehsan. Now, simply running python cancel.py will be enough to get you going – you’ll be prompted for your username, password, branch and … Continue reading →

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Self-serve, now in bulk

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Josh Matthews

Update: the tool is now easier to use and doesn’t require adding your password as an argument. See this post for more details. I’m a big fan of the self-serve tool that RelEng provided for people with LDAP access. When … Continue reading →

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I’ve seen the future, brother: it is dynamic additions to the status bar that don’t block the main process.

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Josh Matthews

You’re looking at a mind-bogglingly alpha Jetpack prototype running out of process. Yesterday was a black triangle moment for me, as I finally saw the culmination of 2.5 months of work to make the words “Gmail it” appear in the … Continue reading →

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Megazeux debugger on github

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Josh Matthews

The official Megazeux repository recently moved to github, allowing me the opportunity to create my own fork and move my debugger work into a more public sphere. Accordingly, you can now visit my repo for all the most recent robotic … Continue reading →

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Cross-compiling with MinGW on Fedora

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Josh Matthews

My goodness, I’m impressed. Having released the first iteration of my robotic debugger, I was informed that the fork()/exec() combo isn’t portable to Windows. Nobody volunteered any patches immediately, so I decided to read up on cross-compiling since I really … Continue reading →

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Break me off a piece of that Megazeux debugger

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Josh Matthews

Breaking news: breakpoints now exist in the debugger. There’s no indication that they exist until execution reaches them unless you look in the console window , but they’re there! Next up: differentiating between active line, current line, and line + … Continue reading →

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Make ye a hydra

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Josh Matthews

I’m interested in playing around with Dehydra to see whether I can create a pre-review checker, hopefully to lessen the amount of nits that inevitably crop up in any patch submitted on Bugzilla. However, as always, the immediate hurdle is … Continue reading →

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Megazeux Debugging: Redux

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Josh Matthews

It’s been about a year and a half since I last touched on the idea of a Megazeux debugger, and that is far too long! I’ve recently begun an internship with Mozilla working on the Electrolysis project, which is a … Continue reading →

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MegaZeux Debugging: part 3

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Josh Matthews

After some more fiddling, basic robot watching is pretty rock solid.  I fixed some memory leaks and crashes, and I’ve moved on to breakpoints.  And herein lies the conumdrum, as I’m trying to figure out the use cases here and … Continue reading →

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MegaZeux Debugging: part 2

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Josh Matthews

What with midterms and end of term, it’s been several weeks since I last touched my robotic debugger, but that changed tonight.  There’s now a usable bleeding-edge debugger for your perusal in the bzr repository.  You have your choice of … Continue reading →

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