Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • ATF 0.9 released (late announcement)

    Oops! Looks like I forgot to announce the release of ATF 0.9 here a couple of weeks ago. Just a short notice that the formal release has been available since June 3rd and that 0.9 has been in NetBSD since June 4th! You can also enjoy a shiny-new web site! It even includes a FAQ! And, as a side note: I have added a test target to the NetBSD Makefiles, so now it's possible to just do make test within any subdirectory of src/tests/ and get what you expect.

    June 18, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Trac installation for ATF

    During the past few months, I've got into the habit of using a bug tracker to organize my tasks at the work place. People assign tickets to me to get things done and I also create and self-assign tickets to myself to keep them as a reminder of the mini-projects to be accomplished. Sincerely, this approach works very well for me and keeps me focused. Since then, I've been wishing to have a similar system set up for ATF.

    May 10, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Ads gone

    Almost a year ago, I decided to give a try to AdSense. And, so far, the "earnings" have been ~30 EUR which I cannot even cash. Given this and how ugly and disturbing the ads look on the front page, I have disabled them. (I think the ads have gotten much worse over time... but as I do not pay attention to the front page, I didn't see them.) Thanks to Roman Valls for pointing this out!

    May 10, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • ATF 0.8 imported into NetBSD

    Finished importing ATF 0.8 into the NetBSD source tree. Wow, the CVS import plus merge was much easier than I expected. Note that, while the NetBSD test suite should continue to work as usual, there are some backwards incompatible changes in the command line interface of test programs. If you are used to run them by hand, expect different results. Please read the release news for details. Now let's wait for complaints about broken builds!

    May 8, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Announcing ATF 0.8

    Looks like today is a release day. I've just pushed ATF 0.8 out in the wild and will proceed to import it into pkgsrc and NetBSD later. Refer to the release announcement for details. This is an exciting release! You have been warned ;-)

    May 7, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Announcing etcutils 0.1

    During past week, I worked on a new package called etcutils. It provides a (reduced) tool-set to programmatically manage files in /etc and is specially designed to allow pkgsrc to update /etc/shells and /etc/services in a more consistent way. I'm happy to say that the 0.1 release is now ready! Go to the etcutils web page for details. (I know that if you are a Linux user, you probably don't care about this because your distribution most likely already provides something similar.

    May 7, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Forget about test(1)'s == operator

    Some implementations of test(1), in an attempt to be smart, provide non-standard operators such as ==. Please forget about those: they make your scripts non-portable and a pain to use in other systems. Why? Because, due to the way the shell works, failures in calls to test(1) will often just result in an error message (which may not be seen due to other output) and the script will happily continue running even if it missed to perform some important operation.

    April 24, 2010 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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