I’ve changed the look of the site (again). I got tired of the dark/grey look and wanted something brighter. Thanks to Count Zero for making the wonderful Binary Blue theme.
Now to the untrained eye this theme is just a theme. If one looks closely this theme is not just a theme but is a theme […]

I wanted to mention a few words the Autoconf. Autoconf generates that wonderful configure script which tells you whether you have all the things required the application you’re trying to compile (or not).  Configure scripts also build Makefiles out of either Makefile.in or Makefile.am files. This is great because it lets […]

I’m in 3rd year BSD, started January 2005, and I swear no one in my immediate family still knows exactly what I do.
No offense to them. I love my family, and extended family. I just think that sometimes they forget what software developers are. I am sure, however, that this is a common misconception to […]

Four years ago a very wonderful girl said she felt for me the same love I felt for her. Through good times and some very bad times she has stood by me which makes me just about the luckiest bastard this side of … which makes me just about the luckest bastard ever.
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Check out all the latest buildbot musing and news on ben’s blog.

I’ve changed the template because I kept messing with it until I neither liked it nor did I know how it was supposed to look like anymore.
I don’t know if I like this one either… it’s kind of dark. I might switch to something else in a bit.

Cesar and I have released the first patch for distcc. This patch lets people’s add support for non-gcc compilers (e.g. mscvs, aka cl.exe, which cesar and I will start working on now). I’ll be posting a more extensive tutorial in a bit but you can find all the information in compiler.c .
We invite everyone to […]

I’m excited about the great stuff that the Computer Studies at Seneca and Mozilla partnership is creating. So when I heard from a r*erson friend said he’s fed up with how his school teaches programming I decided to invite him to Seneca and show him what a *real* programming school looks like.
The results are mixed […]

I’ve been trying to do something these past few days that we should have done a long time ago; build fox using distcc (now that our assignment has been merged with distcc, this has become incredibly important). This turned out to be rather more complicated than it seems.
I have it set up so that Tom’s […]

Cesar just got an account so expect to be hearing from him a lot more (if he gets around to it).