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The more I play with the new breed of VCS tools, the more I appreciate them. The older generations (CVS, SVN) look increasingly archaic, supporting a computing and development model that seems unsustainable. Yet most of us lived with those tools, or something similar, for most of our development-focused lives.When I speak of the new breed, the two standouts (to me) are Git and Mercurial. There are...

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You know what? Git must have come a long way in the last year. I keep reading that Git is hard to learn, has rough documentation, etc. But it’s really been quite nice in comparison to many things.It’s especially nice once you quickly learn that the HTML man pages for Git follow a simple pattern (as I guess many online man page collections must). Just change the end of the URL from git-cvsimport.html...

After a long day at work, I wrote a long message in Basecamp about what I had accomplished, how to access it, etc. But I forgot to submit the message! Crud. I wanted to send it out before morning and didn’t want to go into the office. I couldn’t get any screen sharing connection to go between the machines. I just had a handful of SSH leaps.AppleScript to the rescue!This is probably the most AppleScript...

So Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) doesn’t ship with Java 6. And now Java people are all sad and mad and yelling at Apple for dropping the ball on this.Why should Apple go out of their way to provide Java 6? After the aborted Java - Objective C bridge experiments, what else is there to do? “Native” Java applications have still never come close to feeling like a native or near native piece of the operating...

These periods between posts keep getting longer, don’t they?I’ve got nothing earth-shattering to talk about. Work’s been very busy, and we continue to be served well by Zope 3. I’m still royally confused by things like setuptools and eggs, mostly in regards to how they work in a Zope 3 world when you’ve already got long entrenched ways of doing software. I could not get a good answer from anyone I...

I don’t know when I last used a spreadsheet for its actual spreadsheet capabilities, on a sheet I designed myself. I think it may go back to AppleWorks (on the Apple II)! Sure, I’ve used sheets like time cards and travel requests that others had made where I just had to fill in the holes. And I’ve received more than my fair share of spreadsheets used like an outliner / lightweight database / structured...

So, I used to use “My Excite” as my little personal portal. It had good TV listings, which is always important. But many years ago, as Excite was was burying its content under more and more ads, I switched to “My Yahoo!”. Which was even better. Great TV listings. So even now, when I don’t have cable or satellite, I found it valuable.But then they changed. They upgraded to super fancy TV listings full...

While digging through the Python-3000 development list archives, trying to figure out the state of thought circling PEP’s 3119 and 3124, I came across this gem:“Traits/roles instead of ABCs”, by Collin Winter.With ABCs refererring to Abstract Base Classes (pep 3119).Winter’s proposal is similar to my recent post, which is that this sort of “capability inference” should be dynamic, and not bound to...

I guess the deadline may have come and gone for getting in PEPs for Python 3000. Guido’s already written up a PEP Parade.Of particular interest to me has been the appearance of PEPs for Abstract Base Classes (PEP 3119) and the more exhaustive PEP 3124 which covers “Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and Adaptation.”Both of these aim to provide ways of saying “this is file-ish”, “this is string-ish,”...

Sometimes, it just happens...>>> pprint(... sorted(... map(... linecount,... path('.').walkfiles('*.py')... ...

Ian Bicking wrote a post recently titled “Python’s Makefile”. He advocates using / re-using distutils… er… setuptools. (I can’t keep them straight - they’ve both become absolute nightmares in my opinion). He then goes off about entry points, separate setup.cfg files, and other things that still go way over my head. The example he shows is convoluted, and I’m ultimately not entirely sure what he’s...

This whole Don Imus issue has confused the shit out of me. Talk radio is full of that kind of, um, talk. Anyways, it all feels like the first episode of the latest season of South Park. Sometimes, South Park can crank out a new episode in response to a very recent event, but that didn’t happen here. This episode aired weeks earlier.As for how or why this Don Imus issue exploded in the way that it...

From my tumblog: but I don't want my search engine to be a slide show!Google - remember that search engine of yours? How about making it better by offering some options like result filtering ("I don't feel like shopping right now, I'm trying to research...

We’ve been using Zope 3 in earnest for just over a year and a half now. I would like to report that in that year and a half our little company has achieved more re-use than at any time in our history. This is real re-use too: libraries of tools and objects that are easily shared among both horizontal and vertical markets, yet customized for each customer as needed. Benefits for one are fairly easily...

Oh yeah: Dirty Modern. My tumblelog, generally more focused on design, music, etc.. We'll see.I haven't posted too much in Griddle Noise because it's quite hard, sometimes, to write short entries. I always liked the tumblelog format for being explicitly simple. And Tumblr has an excellent bookmarklet for posting entri...

Web 2.0 has excited us because we lowered our expectations so much. Of course web apps will get better, and one day will deliver the functionality we currently get from desktop software. They may even do more than our desktop applications one day. But isn’t it a tad strange that we think this is all a huge leap forward? - loose wire blog: It's Not the "Death" of Microsoft, it's the "Death" of SoftwareThe...