All posts by Blake Swopes

Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.

Firefox 3 beta 5

Started using the firefox beta the other day after a developer gave me crap for using the latest stable…

Aside from it crashing all the time and being blazingly slow, it was pretty neat. Not many addons support it yet, and I’m addon crazy…

I did find that with an about:config setting to disable ipv6 dns lookups, firefox is back up to its expected zippiness, and possibly even faster than v2. And it hasn’t crashed on me in a few hours… Starting to see some potential here.

Agile code is bug free code.

I was briefly in training about Agile methodology yesterday. Our developers have been using Agile for a while and the rest of the company is making the transition now. All of operations thinks its a bad idea.

The training did produce a couple gems, though… Like when the trainer was asked (I shit you not, these are quotes)…

“So, what you’re saying is, with agile any code that gets released is bug free?”

*pause*

Trainer: “Yes.”