Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Subversion hits Alpha.- woot. I would use this over CVS, except that my source control system is definitely not something I want to find bugs in (as I use it daily). That's a problem I think. Hopefully when it gets more stable, more users etc - we'll move to it. Although if everyone feels the same way, we're all screwed [rebelutionary] I'm excited about Subversion. I've tried lots of VCS packages of which I've only come across 2 I like (CVS and Perforce). Unfortunately both have their problems - and I feel embarresed recommending them sometimes because of it. Subversion seems to address ALL of my issues. However, a very critical factor in the success of Subversion is the client. While a command line is critical, 90% of operations are simple things that require a nice visual interface. Tortoise is a very elegant solution for CVS, as is Eclipse - Subversion will struggle until it has its own equivalents. [Joe's Jelly] 7:39:50 PM

We all have Java Peeves. Here are mine. [Joe's Jelly] 7:39:36 PM

Developer Jedi Masters Write.... Joe points to two brilliant looking books: Test Driven Development (Kent Beck) is a book devoted to the black art of unit-testing. Remember in Return of the Jedi when Yoda was rambling on about how to be an effective Jedi and then in Attack of the Clones you actually see him strut his stuff - and he kicks ass... well Kent kicks ass. and Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) is his long awaited book that's been evolving on his website for over a year. This book looks at design and architectural patterns of enterprise systems and discusses many practical implementations that can be built ranging from the quick and simple to very clever and scalable. [rebelutionary] 7:33:29 PM

Mankind will not end in 2019: Big asteroid will miss earth. Or is NASA afraid of losing their funding? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 7:51:28 AM

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