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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Linux/Unix Group: Crash Reporting: Mozilla's Open Source Solution</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2009-09-03T19:00:00" datetime="2009-09-03T19:00:00">Thursday, September 3, 2009 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2009-09-03T21:00:00" datetime="2009-09-03T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391953'><span class='fn org p-name'>Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1900 SW Fourth Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97201</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1900%20SW%20Fourth%20Avenue,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097201%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <pre><code> 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. </code></pre> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pdxLinux.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>