Wez Furlong
Wez Furlong
Software Architect, OpenSourceror
I am Wez Furlong, Chief Software Architect at
Message Systems,
PHP Core developer and
OpenSource contributor. I live in Maryland, USA
with Juliette, Xander and Lily.
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parser and lexer generators for PHP
PHP
Nov 25, 2006Updated Oct 23, 2010Permalink
[Update: I've put these parser/lexer tools on BitBucket and Github; enjoy!]
From time to time, I find that I need to put a parser together. Most of the time I find that I need to do this in C for performance, but other times I just want something convenient, like PHP, and have been out of luck.
This thanksgiving I set out to remedy this and adapted lemon to optionally emit PHP code, and likewise with JLex.
You need a C compiler to build lemon and a java compiler and runtime to build and ...
mtrack repo ACLs
mtrack and php
Oct 10, 2010Updated Oct 11, 2010Permalink
Updated: Added schema and UI for Projects to own repos and manage groups.
Following through on user repos and SSH, I revised the ACL support
in mtrack and added a permissions editor for the repo editing screen.
When you create a repo, it defaults to granting you (the creator) full
access and denying everybody else access (equivalent to a private repo
in services like Github and Bitbucket).
These permissions are respected by the SSH plumbing, so you can prevent
checking in or out on a repo-by-repo basis.
Another important change in the tip is that ...
mtrack user repos and ssh
php and mtrack
Oct 9, 2010Permalink
I've just pushed a somewhat experimental change to the default branch
of mtrack that enables per-user repositories, repository forking,
SSH key management, and SSH repository serving integration.
It's important to stress that this is preliminary in as much as
restrictive controls are missing. There are some ACLs and rights
around repo creation that are not yet implemented. Additionally,
if you are using OpenID, any authenticated user will be able to
add an ssh key and access the mtrack created repos (but nothing
outside of that).
What you get in the current tip:
Users can ...
mtrack: burndown and postgres
php and mtrack
Oct 6, 2010Permalink
It's that time of the month... mtrack update time. Not a huge number
of items to report on this time around, but it's a decently significant
stepping stone--the schema management code takes us one step closer
to an upgrade/deployment process.
If you don't explicitly include the burndown macro text in a milestone,
a default burndown graph will now be displayed when the milestone
summary is rendered in the roadmap section.
Added schema management code to handle upgrades that change the schema
Added preliminary postgres DB support on top of the schema management
code. ...
mtrack: custom fields, snippets
mtrack and PHP
Sep 6, 2010Permalink
It's time for another mtrack update; here's what's new:
Add "Snippets" feature; works like pastebin, but allows for comments to be supplied in wiki syntax in addition to the code or text snippet that you're pasting
Add Custom Field support. This is implemented by modifying the schema
(custom fields always have an "x_" prefix).
Improvements to the "custom ticket query" screens, including
ability to select which columns (including custom fields)
are included in the results
Fix an issue with sorting the "Remaining" time column
Fix some IE compatibility issues ...
mtrack: facelift + other progress
mtrack and PHP
Aug 15, 2010Permalink
I've been working on some changes to mtrack (a software development tracker
implemented in PHP) this weekend, with a focus on
improving the user experience for the mtrack administrator. To be brutally
honest, it was at best a meagre experience for the administrator, but now
things are better. They're still not perfect, but it should be a low
enough bar to encourage more folks to play with mtrack. I've also spent a
little bit of effort to add some caching to improve performance for certain
pages.
For those that have tried it in the past, there's a ...
OSCON 2010 Redux
OSCON and Gimli
Jul 25, 2010Permalink
Another OSCON is done. As usual, it was a great mix of folks and ideas
across many different areas of OpenSource technology.
The most valuable track at these conferences (for me, at least) has become the hallway track. This is due in-part to my becoming a big-headed know-it-all; you pick up a lot of knowledge after you been to a good number of these conferences/conventions. But it is really important to me to be able to converse with fellow OpenSourcerors, whether they are working on the tools that I use on a daily basis or are working ...
Gimli at OSCON
OSCON and Gimli
May 22, 2010Updated Jul 25, 2010Permalink
Update: the session is complete; you can find the slides on slideshare.net and the code on bitbucket
I'm speaking at OSCON again with another new topic. This year, I'm spreading
the news about Gimli, a Server Process Monitoring and Fault Analysis framework
that I built at Message Systems and
will be sharing with the world at OSCON.
In a nutshell, Gimli will supervise a process and capture an extensive
crash trace (using DWARF 3 debugging information if possible) if the process
crashes or wedges, and then restarts the process.
mtrack: roadmap RFC
PHP and mtrack
Jul 10, 2010Permalink
I wanted to share some of my thoughts on future development in mtrack, and
solicit some feedback. Some of these are driven directly from user requests, and others are things that I've been thinking about on-and-off for a little while.
I really want to hear your thoughts, whether they relate to ideas and feature
suggestions, or whether you have some experience or anecdotes on these topics.
Custom Fields
I was hoping to avoid having to enable this as a feature, as I find the implementation approach taken in the original Trac to be sub-optimal, both ...
HTTP POST from PHP, without cURL
PHP, POST, REST and API
Nov 15, 2006Updated May 23, 2010Permalink
Update May 2010: This is one of my most popular blog entries, so it seems
worthwhile to modernize it a little. I've added an example of a generic REST
helper that I've been using in a couple of places below the original
do_post_request function in this entry. Enjoy!
I don't think we do a very good job of evangelizing some of the nice things that the PHP streams layer does in the PHP manual, or even in general. At least, every time I search for the code snippet that allows you to do an HTTP POST ...
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