Webdev:Meetings:2012-05-22

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Meeting Info

Open Items/Meeting notes

  • Note-taker: Rik
  • Apps Blog posts (moar blogs!)
    • Kumar to write a summary this week
    • Anyone else?
  • Pre-screening coding for job candidates (Laura)
    • Some candidates don't know how to code, is there any way to filter them out before the first phonescreen?
    • Checking Github or other public repositories.
      • A busy Github profile does not mean the interviewee has actually done stuff, check actual commits
      • Some people don't have code that they can share (because of employer policies)
    • Should we be ok to finish first screen interview quicker if we discover someone can't code?
    • Coding experiences over 45min (skyrock, rik) or a weekend (sourceforge, groovecoder). Maybe we can try that. Should not discriminate people that have other things to do on weekends (family, friends, etc)
    • No decision, just a reflexion
  • Notable status updates (Fred, Laura, James, Wil, anyone)

Roundtable

adrian

  • In Madrid this week
  • Working on moving the very last pieces of SQL in the UI of Socorro

andy

  • marketplace including some APIs for other people
  • in the UK at the moment, back in Vancouver next week

arron

ashort

aricaud

  • Getting comfy with Bedrock, cleaning tests to turn Jenkins on, looking at selenium tests.
  • Visited the awesome London office and autochthons.
  • Small Affiliates release
  • I really enjoyed graphs theory but never applied as much as I'd like.

bsavage

bensternthal

craigcook

ckoehler

cmore

davidwalsh

ednapiranha

gkoberger

jlongster

jsocol

kumar

lars

  • socorro
    • continuing on processor2012
    • added hex address templating for Java crashes from Fennec
    • blocked by unittests and the difficulty of creating a new socorro VM.
  • favorite algorithm
    • nextgen←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

laura

lcrouch

lonnen

  • briar-patch, bramble, releng machine health dashboard
  • socorro -- landed statsd in the processors[1]
  • KarlG, my chatbot[2]
  • favorite data structure: bloom filters[3]

lorchard

malexis

mkelly

morgamic

  • on vacation. so far being successful at actually being on vacation.

ngoke

peterbe

  • Interviewing, interviewing and interviewing people
  • Trying out Sandstone on Elmo http://cl.ly/GnA6
  • Re-writing various Socorro cron scripts into crontabber apps.

piotr

pmclanahan

potch

rhelmer

ricky

robhudson

  • Finishing up smaller default-to-compatible bugs.
  • Reviewers tools
  • Excited to work with willkg on elasticutils.

schalk

seanmonstar

ubernostrum

timw

tofumatt

  • Worked in Paris last week. I have some blog ideas for remote work/travel/community/etc. Yay!
  • Paris people were nice. Merci!
  • Back in Barcelona for a bit. Gonna start at a coworking place fulltime tomorrow.
  • Working on newnewtab. Staging stuff for Todd to see tomorrow. Yay!

Favourite algorithm? Quicksort; it is the appropriate reply to all computer science related threads on Slashdot.

wenzel

  • Lots of recruiting work
  • newnewtab project planning
  • Marketplace submission API planning

Favorite algorithm is the efficient solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem that I am surely going to come up with any day now. Oh, *existing* algorithms. I like Minimum Spanning Tree for its simplicity.

wil

willkg

  • set up an #elasticutils irc channel
  • submitted pull requests for input and mozillians to fix elasticutils usage
  • talked with Rob about elasticutils future--Rob is going to work on new features while Will works on merging features in various branches into master; elasticutils will ROCK.
  • launched my first app with Petri as an experiment to see how it all works: https://isitmfict.vcap.mozillalabs.com/ (based on http://isitmfbt.com/)
  • worked on elasticsearch code in SUMO--we're almost at the point where we're showing unified search results
  • got my business cards!

I like map coloring. You can use it for register allocation, coloring maps, and I sketched out how to use it for seating plans for wedding receptions. It's pretty cool.