Archive for March, 2007

FreshSource - navigating the repo

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

FreshSource has long has a tool for walking the source tree. By source tree, do not think src. Think ports, www, src, docs, everything that you can see through cvsweb.
The screen shot you see is what FreshSource looks like on my laptop.
I’m happy with this progress, which represents about two hours of work. […]

FreshSource - watching non-ports

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

One of the as yet unexploited capabilities of the FreshPorts database is the ability to watch non-ports. On the train from Ottawa to Montreal, as I was headed for the PHP Conference, I worked on creating notification reports for non-ports. It took about an hour, but I suceeded. The changes are not […]

Using AdSense to launch a DoS attack

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Some of you will have noticed that we had a short outage on the FreshPorts webserver yesterday. It would have appeared as if the webserver was not responding. It was being slow. Very slow.
The cause is interesting. When I checked the logs, it was my ad server that was busy. […]

Changes to News Feeds

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.

repo copies are evil

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Repo copies are evil. What are repo copies? A repo copy occurs when you move things around in the repository manually. For example, this commit contains a lot of repo copy work. Ports are being moved from their current category to a new category, ports-mgmt. The original files in the […]