Monthly Archives: January 2013

On Code Review

One of the discussions happening right now in the Mozilla Foundation software team is whether mandatory code reviews are a good thing.  I’ve had versions of this conversation a number of times in the past few months, and today I’m going to write my thoughts down so I can point at them when it comes [...]
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A prayer for Aaron

Today, and as I write this, friends and family of Aaron Swartz are gathering to pay their last respects to a son, friend, and colleague.  Our Mozilla Foundation software team call, which normally happens at this time, was rescheduled in order to allow a number of the engineers to attend the service in [...]
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Visual Studio considered Harmful

I was reading scrollback on irc this morning, where a number of my students were discussing the unit tests for the webvtt project we’re doing this term.  The main issue was that Visual Studio didn’t seem to provide the equivalent of our autotools build system’s `make check‘, that is, it can’t run all our tests [...]
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