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From Bugs back to Wireless and Friends

Blog post by mmlr on Mon, 2011-11-28 02:04

As this week concludes I'd like to post an update on what I've been up to and what I'll be working on next. After fixing a few kernel issues and looking into some others I've come to a point where I'll gradually refocus back on some of the tasks I left open before mentally entering the kernel debugging land. In this blog post I'll also try to describe some of what I did this week to hopefully make it a bit more accessible.

Greetings (mostly) from the Kernel (Debugging Land)

Blog post by mmlr on Thu, 2011-11-17 17:00

allocation tracking, contract work

So what is going on right now in the time I spend on my Haiku contract? For the past two and a half weeks I've had my mind wrapped around various parts of the kernel. Things started out at BeGeistert and the coding sprint following it. The nice thing about the coding sprint is that you spend a lot of time with very knowledgeable people and can therefore tackle things that you would usually shy away from. In this case, Ingo Weinhold and I were seeing some random memory corruption problems and an apparent memory/pages leak. So we started investigating those by adding more debug functions into the relevant parts.

My first Month of Contract Work

Blog post by mmlr on Thu, 2011-10-27 07:54

contract work, intel_extreme, wpa_supplicant

As some of you know, I've started my contract work on Haiku pretty exactly one month ago. During that time I've been working on various things that I'd like to summarize in this post. In the future I plan on posting more but shorter entries, but since much has happened in this month this one is going to be a bit more elaborate.

Package Management: Queries, Solutions, and the Status Quo

Blog post by bonefish on Mon, 2011-07-18 15:04

package management, contract work

Alas the time of my contract with Haiku, Inc. is up. So besides giving some details about the query support and libsolv port which I've been working on since my last post, I'll also summarize where Haiku's package management stands now and what still needs to be done.

Package Management: Bits and Pieces

Blog post by bonefish on Mon, 2011-07-04 13:28

package management, contract work

Time does fly. It has already been two weeks since my previous blog post, so I guess an update is in order. The support for shine-through directories and the package links has been implemented as planned and works nicely as far as I have tested them. Other than that I've worked on a few odds and ends.

Package Management: System in a Package

Blog post by bonefish on Mon, 2011-06-20 13:49

package management, contract work

After a week of working on the package management support as per my contract with Haiku, Inc., I have reached my first milestone: The base system is packaged... and it boots again. Here's a short account of what I have been doing exactly and what I'm up to next.

Overdue progress report on Media Kit and MediaPlayer

Blog post by stippi on Sat, 2011-02-12 16:15

ffmpeg, media, contract work

Going through some backup files on my hard drive, I discovered a blog entry about my work on the Media Kit and MediaPlayer, which I for some reason never published. Even though it's about work which happened some time ago, I am going ahead and publish it anyway, perhaps it's still an interesting read for some. Here it goes:

While I was contracted to work on the port of WebKit to Haiku, and later on WebPositive, I've written regular enthusiastic blog entries to report on my progress. This time around, I haven't felt confident in the results of my work up until now. Getting the FFmpeg plugin to perform decently was quite a piece of often frustrating work.