Laura attended CakeFest a couple months ago and got to meet some core Cake developers in person. In doing so she let slip that AMO was running on a pretty old version (1.1.12 - Released in December of 2006). Apparently 1.1.15 had some major performance boosts and since we melted the cluster a [...]
Tagged AMO, CakePHP, code, MozillaI haven’t found much time for cooking lately but this project brought me back to the kitchen tonight. I’ve been acquiring the ingredients for about a month and finally found a suitable bottle (it was originally a bottle of Mönchshof World Classic Schwarz). I followed these instructions for the most part but I [...]
Tagged cookingI’ve been playing with CakePHP’s session code lately and ran across an interesting (read: nerdy) problem with cookies on AMO.
First, some background:
The uniqueness of a cookie in the browser is determined by all the attributes when it’s set (not just it’s name). That means I can have multiple cookies named AMOv3 as long as [...]
When you’re using CakePHP!
Turns out CakePHP considers a TINYINT(1) to be a Boolean. Judging from all the support tickets that have been filed, I’m not the first person to get taken off guard by this behavior. When I asked about it on IRC, the response was that since MySQL considers a TINYINT(1) to [...]
I might have played the devil’s advocate when Lars was hating on frameworks at the barcamp last weekend, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see his point. The latest in a series of frustrations with frameworks kept me up until 3am last night. What better way to cap it off than complaining on [...]
Tagged AMO, CakePHP, code, Drupal, Mozilla, scalabilityWhen I browse the web looking to purchase a service, I find there are two pretty distinct kinds of sites. One feels like it was made in the early 90’s: it’s mostly functional, almost renders correctly, and has the odd combination of distracting images and colors we thought was a good idea back [...]
Tagged open webI used to get several hundred spam emails a day on micropipes.com. I wasn’t thrilled with having a four or five digit message count in my spam folder, but I deleted the few that slipped through each day and didn’t think about it much more. Someone else running a domain on this server [...]
Tagged mailI think it must be my old age shining through but rather than go down to the meeting and cause hate and discontent I decided to repair a hole in my kitchen floor instead. As much as I enjoy awkward conversations (when I’m the instigator), it just seemed like a lot of effort - [...]
Tagged drama, grey area, o rlyThis afternoon my neighbor (who I’d never met before) showed up at my door with a bundle of bright pink papers. He explained to me that he was inviting me to a meeting tomorrow at our local library that would help me make vast amounts of money. Oh really?
I probed for some details [...]
Mozilla’s SVN repository was started on September 2nd, 2006 and just hit 10000 commits. That’s an average of over 19 commits a day for 520 days straight!
After my positive experience with python I was gearing up for a script to do some repository analysis when I ran across MPY SVN Stats. After a [...]