I was up late last night experimenting with a new feature for Review Board. The idea was to introduce syntax highlighting for the code in the diff viewer through use of the Pygments library. Actually getting syntax highlighting to work was pretty easy, and before long I had it working. The trick, it turned out, [...]

I was walking around the new VMware Promontory campus today and found this button.

I’m tempted to press it, but I’m not sure what it will do. Send little stick figures to attack me? Stick me in a little house?
Any ideas?
Update: My apologies to anyone who couldn’t comment. My cache plugin cached the captcha. Oops. That’s [...]

It’s only been a couple of weeks since the last update about Review Board, but too much is happening to stay quiet.
New Features

Interdiffs
Ever go through a long patch review process only to find it’s getting harder and harder to review any new changes due to the size of the patch? I’m sure most large projects [...]

Yesterday I briefly wrote about the new feature in VMware Fusion called Unity and linked to a video demonstrating what it can do. The buzz we got from that has been a lot of fun. Some people commented on various sites saying it was fake, even, which I found pretty funny having watched this thing [...]

I remember the day I interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system.
I [...]

I was stunned by the response to my post announcing Review Board. We had so much feedback and so many users signed up. Last I checked, our production server (which has so far been used as a demo/test server by others) has had over 550 registered users. Part of this was due to us being [...]