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Category Archives: Project
Ensemble, Go, and MongoDB at Canonical
About 1 year after development started in Ensemble, today the stars finally aligned just the right way (review queue mostly empty, no other pressing needs, etc) for me to start writing the specification about the repository system we’ve been jointly … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, C/C++, Cloud, Design, Go, PostgreSQL, Project, Python
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Vector clock support for Go
One more Go library oriented towards building distributed systems hot off the presses: govclock. This one offers full vector clock support for the Go language. Vector clocks allow recording and analyzing the inherent partial ordering of events in a distributed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Go, Project, Snippet
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Integrating Go with C: the ZooKeeper binding experience
ZooKeeper is a clever generic coordination server for distributed systems, and is one of the core softwares which facilitate the development of Ensemble (project for automagic IaaS deployments which we push at Canonical), so it was a natural choice to … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Article, C/C++, Go, Project, Snippet
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Gocheck: A rich testing library for Go
It’s time to release my “side project” which has been evolving over the last several months: Gocheck. I’ve been watching Go for some time, and have been getting more and more interested in the language. My first attempt to write … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Go, Project, Test
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Mocker 1.0 for Python released!
After a few years in development, version 1.0 of Mocker is now available! Check out the changes since 0.10.1, the supported features, or go straight to the download page.
Posted in Project, Python, Test
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Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing
A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading
Released editmoin 1.15
Version 1.15 of editmoin is now available. The following changes were made: Moin used to work with numerical IDs for identification, and editmoin was still based on this model. This release adds support for direct authentication as available in current … Continue reading
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Xpresser – Python library for GUI automation with image matching
In a hurry? Go check it out! The context A while ago I found out about Sikuli, a very interesting project which allows people to script actions in GUIs based on screenshot excerpts. The idea is that you basically take … Continue reading
Posted in Project, Python, Test
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The last 4 years (and the next N?)
Some interesting changes have been happening in my professional life, so I wanted to share it here to update friends and also for me to keep track of things over time (at some point I will be older and will … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Java, Project, Python
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Geocaching on the Easter Island
This post is not about what you think it is, unfortunately. I actually do hope to go to the Easter Island at some point, but this post is about a short story which involves geohash.org, Groundspeak (from geocaching.com), and very … Continue reading
Posted in GPS, Mobile, Project
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