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Hello World!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

I’m Paul Swartz (if you didn’t get that from the title at the top of the page). I’m one of the newer devs here at the PCF. I started over the summer, working on buiding Miro on Windows with MinGW. Although it won’t ever be the default build (MinGW builds XULRunner aren’t supported by Mozilla), it was an interesting project. I also worked on Google Summer of Code 2007. My project was rewriting the tests for Twisted Conch, an SSHv2 client/server library for Python and Twisted.

Now that I’ve started full-time with the PCF, I’m focusing on Miro Guide. Some of the new features that have gone live are:

  • Channel Ratings: now you can rate your favorite channels
  • Recommendations based on subscriptions
  • Suspending broken channels

Right now, I’m working on making the Guide faster by caching a lot of our database access with memcached. I’ll be blogging here about that work, and in the future about the work that goes on behind the scenes of the Miro Guide.

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