MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Sep 3, 2009 at Portland State University in the Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science Building Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg
******************************************************************* PRESENTATION Crash Reporting: Mozilla's Open Source Solution by K Lars Lohn Nothing exercises the limits of software like turning it over to the end users. While in-house testing is invaluable, the end users can often find the neglected edge cases or subtle race conditions in a more reliable manner. However, once the software is in the end user’s hands, postmortem crash information is usually lost. By taking the Google Breakpad project and enhancing it with Mozilla’s own Socorro project, Mozilla has a solution to this problem. When Firefox goes down, in a last ditch effort, it lobs a packet of crash information over the wall to Mozilla's Socorro servers. Socorro Servers, written in Python, can handle millions of these crashes per day. Using Google Breakpad libraries to reconstitute useful stack traces, Socorro Server saves its work in a PostgreSQL database. There statistics are gathered and displayed under the Socorro UI, a PHP web application. With this suite of tools, the Mozilla developers can track trends and even drill down to look at specific instances of Firefox crashes. WARNING: during this talk, Firefox will be intentionally crashed live on stage. Those of delicate constitution may wish to retire to the lobby prior to the spectacle. about Lars Trapped at the triple point between a geek, a hippie and a biker, Lars is a self proclaimed Cowboy Programmer at the Mozilla Corporation. Unintentionally specializing in programming as performance art, Lars frequently jumps into projects on the Thursday prior to a Monday deadline. Lars is proud of being the only member of the Web Development team that does absolutely no Web development. Lars prefers Python, PostgreSQL and Harleys, but is versed in C++, MySQL and Subarus. ******************************************************************* Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon David Mandel Chief Activist Portland Linux/Unix Group 560 SE Alexander Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (541) 730-5285 mobile dmandel at pdxLinux.org P.S. The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets every month. See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. P.S. The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. See http://www.euglug.org for details. ====================================================================== David Mandel http://www.DavidMandel.com Portland Linux/Unix Group http://pdxLinux.org LinuxFund http://LinuxFund.org ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
