Software Contributions

Puppet Work

I contributed a few features for Puppet, including:

Complex if expression parsing and evaluation
Various language based bug fixes
Runit and Daemontools service provider
Puppet Manifest Documentation
An storedconfigs performance improvement patch (which will appear in 0.24.8)
a refactor of the various applications (the so-called Application Controller patch)
the upcoming Thin Storeconfig patch in 0.25
the REST authorization sub-system for 0.25
various bug and test fixes
the upcoming #2033: node regexes, if/case/selector regexes which might be part of 0.25

Puppet TextMate Bundle

I contributed to the Puppet community a TextMate bundle for the Puppet Manifest language.

Nginx Upload Progress Module

Based on the lighttpd upload progress module idea, I contributed the same kind of feature for our beloved webserver Nginx. More information available on the Nginx Upload Progress Module wiki page.

Nginx SSL patches

Those SSL nginx patch have been merged in Nginx 0.8.7!

Mysql-SNMP - a SNMP agent for MySQL, includes OpenNMS graphs

I wrote for Days of Wonder a Net-SNMP perl subagent to monitor MySQL servers with SNMP and the associate OpenNMS configuration to display the graphs. This work is based on the excellent MySQL Cacti Templates.