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Weekly Update for 3/15/2010

I’m going to try to do weekly updates of what I’ve been working on, what I want to get accomplished, and what kind of progress I made since the last update. I don’t know if I’ll stick with Mondays, but...

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SUMO's Black Triangle

A “black triangle” is an accomplishment or milestone that doesn’t look like much—it may be literally a black triangle on a screen—but is the result of a lot of preliminary or foundational work. A black...

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Weekly Update for 12/04/2010

Last week: Finished bugs 556810 (string extraction) and 554740 (Sphinx tests) and landed both. Finished up work on bug 550515 (concat and minify CSS/JS) and pulled jingo-minify out of Zamboni. Got...

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Weekly Update for 10/05/2010

Last week Filed lots of 2.1 bugs. Meet with IT and QA in preparation of 2.0 push. (It didn’t go well, but not for lack of planning.) Engineering plan is roughly complete through the end of the quarter....

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Weekly Update for 17/05/2010

Enjoyed the long weekend in New York, which was my big goal for this week. I was out Friday and Monday—which also happened to be the first day for Ricky, a new Mozillian, and Josh, an intern. Being in...

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Surviving Pac Man

On Friday, Google showed off a fun new doodle in honor of the 30th anniversary of Pac Man: a Pac Man clone, complete with sounds. Unfortunately, in the initial release, those sounds started playing...

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Weekly Update for 07/06/2010

I missed last week. I blame the holiday on Monday. Also Erik started, which is very exciting! Tomorrow afternoon is our planned push for SUMO 2.1, which is our new discussion forum component, and...

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Weekly Update for 06/14/2010

Last week could have gone better. We tried to push SUMO 2.1 twice only to realize we had some issues with respect to replication that need to get ironed out. We think we have a fix for these issues and...

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Developing at Scale: Database Replication

When a website is small—like this one, for example—usually the entire thing, from the web server to the database, can live on a single server. Even a single virtual server. One of the first things that...

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An End and a Beginning

2010 is coming to a close, and, with it, the end of our year-long project to create a new platform for support.mozilla.com (SUMO) is in sight. For the past year, developing the new platform has been...

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The future of SUMO development

Just this month, the SUMO development team completed our transition to our new platform, Kitsune. This small release represented the culmination of nearly a year of great work, and I couldn’t be...

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SUMO in Q2

At the end of 2010, I issued a challenge to my team: deploy support.mozilla.com continuously by the end of 2011. So, as we move into the last part of Q1, how are we doing, and what’s next? So Far This...

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Weekly Update for 11/3/11

Been a busy week! Helped run down an issue with our ads on Reddit. Updated django-multidb-router. - Learned a little about ContextDecorator and how to do that in Python 2.6. Shipped SUMO 2.6.1. Wrapped...

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A brief SumoDev update

A little while ago, I said that I thought we got a B in Q1, but we could move up to an A with a little more work. (This is my favorite grading system: everyone starts at 0 and works up.) Well, we...

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Acronyms you should know: MTTD and MTTR

If you’re a SUMO contributor, there are two acronyms you will start to hear more often from us developers: MTTD and MTTR. They mean “mean time to detect” and “mean time to resolve,” respectively, and...

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