Yann Kerhervé's blog

Smoke testing: Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

CI Feature Matrix - CruiseControl - Confluence

I've found this HUUUUGE matrix of a lot of software doing similar things: Smoke testing/Continuous integration.

Fortunately Kevin (hinted by Miyagawa-san) installed Hudson and said it was awesome. And indeed awesome it looks! So no need to evaluate them all, looks like almost every aspect of hudson make it nice.

Git-svn hack to import original committers from an svk import of svn

I don't recall exactly what was the context but on one of your repo at Six Apart we had the beginning of the project imported into the public repostitory using an external tool (svk I think), I made a patch to git-svn (quick and dirty) to look into the subversion log message and correctly attach the commit to the original author.

The original commit messages have this format:

        # r123@host (orig r1234):  author | 2006-05-17 17:07:42 -0700

documenting the bugs I'm finding [updated x3]

I've started to work on semi work-related projects - i.e. it uses Six Apart technology stack, and I code mostly during the night but also I use my hackathon time to do stuff.

I thought I'd document all the quircks I've found in my way. First it will allow me to remember all this stuff, and second I think it's me being a good internet citizen (someone will find this page someday using google, and might get helped this way).

It might not be that interesting other than for this documentation purpose though.

I intstalled virtual box and ubuntu on my mac, and found two issues with vboxsf (shared folders for ubuntu):

• http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2921
• http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2951

the first one is a problem with linux's sendfile and the second is auto-completion (probably related to vboxsf)

I'm adding pure Perl support for servers in Authen::SASL module, and then hooking that into DJabberd. Doing so, I noticed (thanks hachi for the long debugging session, not related to Danga::Socket/DJabberd at all!), than Psi is not sending the xml (stream start after a successful SASL negotiation) that is shown in its own xml-console!

That last thing made me switched to Adium. And there I noticed a weird issue in the challenge parsing of DIGEST_MD5. I noticed extra quote (") in the realm and digest_uri. I temporarily fixed by changing the order of my tokens inside of the challenge and it fixed the issue... but I have to investigate more, it looks like a libpurple bug.

Lots of TODO and TOFIX!

update:

I've tried with iChat, and it comes with its own set of issues:

Jan  7 17:27:54 yann iChatAgent[56325]: [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 unrecognized pair cipher-opts/rc4, 3des, des, rc4-56, rc4-40: ignoring
Jan  7 17:27:54 yann iChatAgent[56325]: [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 unrecognized pair qop-options/auth, auth-inf, auth-conf: ignoring

multiple pair doesn't work either:

Jan  7 21:09:56 yann iChatAgent[56325]: [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 unrecognized pair qop-options/auth-conf: ignoring
Jan  7 21:09:56 yann iChatAgent[56325]: [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 unrecognized pair qop-options/auth-inf: ignoring
Jan  7 21:09:56 yann iChatAgent[56325]: [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 unrecognized pair qop-options/auth: ignoring

damnit! I know that DIGEST-MD5 is not the most useful mechanism for me, but still...

I'm going to check if this is me that doesn't interpret the RFC 2831 correctly though.

update

Alright, rechecking the RFC/my code it looks like it's not "qop-options" but "qop" and "cipher" and not "cipher-opts". iChat is fine, psi for some reason is behaving weirdly (not sending data to the socket, this is mysterious), Adium has probably issues with challenge parsing (when the challenge includes unsupported token?)

VOX VOX VOX \/O><

Hurrah! It's finally public world wide! vox has been set free today. I'm really, really excited and happy, as I wrote on my other blog. Indeed, I've another blog since a while but I didn't have right to speak about it until now :)

It's really fucking[1] cool.

This year working on this project has been awesome, mainly because of the great people in this company (founders, managers, colleagues and dogs).

[1] Dedicated to the guy capable of posting this word in every post [2]
[2] yeah he loves to make footnotes too.

six apart, comet, ajax, vox, sixapart, 6a, notcomet

Microsoft Word, blog edition

Wow, seriously I think this [fr] is a huge step forward for getting my mother on blogs.

I know a few people (and People) not innocents in getting Microsoft team interested in the subject.

So yes, Microsoft Office will post on blogs. Microsoft Word is speaking Atom.

atom, blog, microsoft, msword, office, typepad, word

Duty accomplished

I've delivered the gift from Beau to Samuel!

gift, paris, san francisco, six apart, wine

Jemplate Hackathon

Yesterday, Ingy came at Six Apart offices in San Francisco to hack (with the help of (Xantus, Miyagawa-san and myself) on Jemplate. Jemplate is a full Template-Toolkit port in Javascript (Template-Toolkit compiles your template into Perl code, Jemplate reuses the same engine to compile it to Javascript code). It was really fun :

Checkout the pictures on flickr

What's pretty amazing is the quality of Template-Toolkit module, everything remains the same except for Directive.pm and Grammar.pm (and the later didn't change a lot for now -- wich also means than weirdly Perl and Javascript are quite the same), two modules that you don't have to worry about in your day to day life with Template::Toolkit. Kudos to Andy !

jemplate, Perl, six apart, template

Happy New Year -- said my development server this morning ...

... before dying.

Well at least, I don't know exactly when it dies exactly, but this morning the first thing I noticed is that the server wasn't replying to my ping anymore.
The server was powered up but nothing on screen.

After some investigation and the tech support by phone... it seems that there's really something really nasty going on with the hardware :(

(Sometimes it boots and just after it power downs and up again :-/ )

investigating the failure

LesBlogs: Backchannel irc logs

I have the logs of what have been said on the backchannel during the “Les Blogs” event.
This is IRC, so I don't know if there's much value in it. Anyway, here's the logs ;)

backchannel, lesblogs, irc, six apart

global tv subscribtion

Tatsuhiko got a new gadget... A pretty innovative one. which let him watch his favorite shows wherever he wants.

Video on demand has a nice future... In France, we have what I think is another kind of innovation : live audience of broadcasted shows (over ADSL). Thanks to the most innovative broadband provider in France : free
But I thinks it's less relevant with Sony's last product.

geek, tv, six apart