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new blog
I've gotten a little tired of LJ for a few reasons, so I have started a new blog at http://mrcote.info/. It's running Octopress and feels a lot slicker. I'll keep my LJ account around for reading other blogs. -
Mozilla A-Team: Peptest results, an exercise in statistical analysis
UPDATE: It's been pointed out that the current metric (sum of squares of unresponsive periods, divided by 1000) is used in Talos and has had a fair bit of thought put into it. I was curious what not squaring the results would do, but I wouldn't go with another metric without more careful thought.
UPDATE 2: It has also been pointed out that peptest ( Read more... ) -
flot-axislabels v2.0
I've released version 2.0 of flot-axislabels, the flot plug-in for labelling axes. Flot is a great, easy-to-use JavaScript graphing lib, based on canvas; however, many people (myself included) viewed the lack of support for axis labels to be a big fault. With flot-axislabels, you can get said labels by just loading the script after flot and setting ( Read more... ) -
Mozilla A-Team: Writing tests for Peptest
With ahal's impending return to studentdom and myself coming back from paternity leave, I will be taking over Peptest development and maintenance. To get myself up to speed, I wrote some tests.
The easiest test to write is one that looks for unresponsiveness while simply loading a page. I've noticed that the site for my favourite blog, The ( Read more... ) -
Automated Speed Tests, take two!
I recently implemented some improvements in the A-Team's Automated Speed Tests as per some requests I got back when I first announced them in July. Not everything's done, but I think this is a good point to advertise what's been changed thus far ( Read more... ) -
Automated Speed Tests!
It's hard to find a discussion of the speed of modern browsers that doesn't mention Microsoft's Test Drive speed demos. It's a common occurrence to find hundreds of fish swimming around a graphics developer's monitor. Continuing our mission to make developers' lives easier, the Mozilla A-Team has put together a framework to automatically run a ( Read more... ) -
From the Vaults of the A-Team: flot plugins
tl;dr From work on the War on Orange, I spun off three flot plugins: flot-axislabels, flot-hiddengraphs, and flot-tickrotor. Use 'em how you will & feel free to gimme feedback.
I'm going to step away from telling you about the A-Team's projects for a few minutes and talk about our by-products. Yup, software by-products. Think virtual horse-glue ( Read more... ) -
Autolog
The A-Team is embarking on a new initiative, and we need your help! After all, the A-Team's customers is Mozilla at large, and we like to keep our customers happy.
The project this time is Autolog. It's intended to be a generic tbpl-like results viewer for all the various projects that have test suites but aren't part of mozilla-central and the ( Read more... ) -
Mozilla!
Any of the handful of my readers may have noticed a bunch of fairly technical posts lately, tagged 'mozilla'. That's 'cause I started working there a few months ago, and in the spirit of openness, one of their core values, they really encourage blogging and other forms of communication. So my mozilla-tagged posts are being syndicated to Planet ( Read more... ) -
nginx and flup
I hope this will be helpful to someone, someday:
If you're using flup to serve fastCGI to nginx, don't enable multiplexing!
Background:
The Bugzilla Dashboard uses web.py as its back-end, for authentication, caching, and storage of divisions, teams, and members. web.py, in turn, uses flup, a relatively popular CGI, WSGI, and fastCGI library. ( Read more... )