I've just fixed a bug in a web app that I'm working on with a couple of colleagues, a bug that is a great example of a hard to find, easy to fix bug that could have been avoided by some defensive programming.
I thought I'd share this titbit to …
more ...Hi folks,
you will have noticed that I failed to post any of my "On the way to Samba4" reports in December last year. That was because I failed to do any Samba work in December, spending all of my time on work-related things. A few co-workers and me had …
more ...Not much to show for this week. I spent the week at a conference, and while I learned many interesting things, I didn't have time to get Samba-related work done. Let's try again for week 48.
more ...Really not much time to work on Samba this week. So I didn't get around to really debug the failing echo test for quite a while. Then tridge pointed out that I was trying to use a connected UDP socket as if it was not connected, and things started to …
more ...A bit late, as usual, but I finally have something productive again. I've got a Samba4 UDP echo server and async client library (including torture test suite), and they're almost working. :) I'm saying almost because I can only get it to work manually right now, not from "make test". I'm …
more ...I usually hate it when real life stops me from coding, but in this case I had a really fun weekend off the computer. The downside is that the echo server still is not done. So not much happening on the Samba 4 front from my side.
One related news …
more ...Last week, I didn't really get to spend much time on Samba 4. About the only thing I managed was working on a patch that renamed the s4 "net" binary to "samba-tool" while at the GSoC Mentor Summit 2010 with Jelmer.
The rename reduces the number of executables with the …
more ...This is the first installment of my hopefully regular progress reports on the things I did last week to get Samba 4 closer to a stable release.
The biggest piece of work certainly was finally pushing the DNS server implementation. Yes, that's correct, Samba 4 now has it's own DNS …
more ...It's aliiiiiiive!
Thanks to Thomas Ingham, a fellow Wombat developer, http://wombat.worldforge.org/ has a new home, ending a couple of months of downtime while I was looking for new hosting.
Tom's box has enough power to allow running two instances of Wombat. Following the next release, the Wombat …
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