Today was my last day at Joyent. It has been a weird 3 years and 3 months, but I enjoyed the experience, and learned a great deal along the way. As is always the case, I’m really going to mis…| Tim Foster's Web Log
As promised, here’s the blog post about my year-long, keep-timf-sane-during-the-pandemic Land Rover project. The work was carried out by David Faulker of DF Engineering at his workshop in Kil…| Tim Foster's Web Log
Today is my last day at Oracle, after nearly 22 years working on and around Solaris. I started at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in June 1996. Working there was literally a dream come true and I still coun…| Tim Foster's Web Log
I’ve written before about Project Lullaby, the revamp we did on the Solaris ON build system for Solaris 12 11.4, and in that post, I mentioned in passing the new logging capabilities of the b…| Tim Foster's Web Log
Ok, I told a white lie in my previous entry – here’s one last post to end this series. To recap, here’s what I’ve written so far about my time as OS/Net tech lead for Solari…| Tim Foster's Web Log
This is the last of my posts documenting some of the tips and tricks I found useful during my time as Solaris ON technical lead, which hopefully might help others thinking of taking up similar posi…| Tim Foster's Web Log
This is the second last post in my series about my 3.25 years as Solaris ON tech lead at Oracle. Originally, this post was titled “arbitrate technical disputes”, but honestly, looking b…| Tim Foster's Web Log
This is the next in the series of posts I’ve been writing about my role as ON technical lead for the Solaris organisation for the last 3.25 years. I talked before about Project Lullaby, and t…| Tim Foster's Web Log
In an earlier post, I talked a little about what the ON tech lead job entails. In this post, I’m going to talk about some of the changes I made to keep raising the quality bar for the release…| Tim Foster's Web Log
A few years before my appointment to the tech lead job, several of us in the org had been complaining about the tools used to build the ON source tree. During his time as ON gatekeeper, James McPhe…| Tim Foster's Web Log