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The Fate of the SVK Tutorials

by Ron Bieber on Monday, June 29, 2009

Chia-liang Kao, the developer and maintainer of the SVK Distributed Version Control System posted a message to the mailing list on May 28th of this year declaring the end of development for the SVK tool.

I know from statistics that the tutorials on this site have been at least helpful, but am curious as to whether I should take them down or not given the fate of the tool. I myself have moved to Git, which has really good integration with Subversion.

So I’m asking you. Do you want the tutorials to stay, or can I get rid of them?

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Piloting Git in a Subversion Environment

March 3, 2009

Ron thinks about how to use Git with SVN and then it gets ruined by StackOverflow. You guys are good!

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Teach Me Cocoa – Video Tutorials for Mac Development

March 2, 2009

New video tutorial site on Cocoa programming by Steven Degutis.

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Git Resources

January 26, 2009

This article provides some quick information on learning the Git Version Control Software.

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Implementing Open Source Defect Tracking as a Corporate Tool – An Update

November 16, 2008

Note: This article was started around March or April of this year – and I just got the motivation to finish it – because I thought it was important. I hope I did the original idea justice all these months later.
Back in October of 2007 I had written about starting to implement [...]

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Git 1.6.0 for Leopard Install Image Available

August 22, 2008

The 1.6.0 install image for Git on Leopard is available.

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ScreenCast Featuring Git and Screenflow

July 8, 2008

Wow, real content! Here I throw together a screencast at the last minute to demo ScreenFlow, an excellent screencasting application on the MacIntosh and talk a little bit about what I’ve learned about Git.
I also get to play a little bit with Blip.TV, Cote style.
[tags]video,version-control,git[/tags]

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Metrics as a Side Effect – Its REAL.

May 19, 2008

Its been over a year since I wrote Metrics As A Side Effect, explaining how my perfect time tracking system would be something based on a Twitter like application. Imagine my surprise when I found that Harvest Time Tracking Software enables Twitter updates. Its not exactly how I described it, [...]

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links for 2008-04-25

April 24, 2008

Lead Architect Blaine Cook Out At Twitter
“I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth”
(tags: twitter news)

Kigg Starter Kit : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
Digg Clone for .NET
(tags: digg asp.net dotnet vc)

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Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade Painless – Really!

March 31, 2008

Yesterday I read that the 2.5 version of Wordpress was officially released. The cautious part of me wanted to wait to upgrade, but the totally paranoid and non-lazy part wanted to just get it over with. I had read a few mentions of incompatibility, but I decided to just bite the bullet [...]

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Wordpress 2.3.2 Available – Security Fix

December 30, 2007

Wordpress 2.3.2 is now available. This release includes some security fixes that should necessitate an upgrade immediately. Details on the release are here. Download 2.3.2 now.

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Vacation Learning – PHP and Smarty Templates

December 20, 2007

I’m on vacation this week and next week. Since I rarely have time to learn anything technical (or blog for that matter anymore), I thought I would take some time during my time off to learn something new around development.
We have a system at work that is essentially a small portal. The [...]

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Flickr Blog This To Draft Plugin

December 3, 2007

I found this plugin that corrects a pet peeve of mine that I’ve had for a while. The Flickr Blog This To Draft Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh ensures that all of your blogged photos from Flickr come in as drafts, so that you can go in and massage the HTML before publishing.
If you [...]

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LDAP Enabling The Eventum Defect Tracking System

October 20, 2007

Due to a recent reorg, I have the opportunity to replace our defect tracking system, which has quite a bit of really wasteful process baked into the tool, with a new one. I’ve been looking at defect tracking software for a while, and chose Eventum, an open source project by MySQL AB [...]

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Interview with Joel Spolsky on Hiring Technical Talent

September 6, 2007

Check out this interesting interview on Technometria with Joel Spolsky (from Joel On Software) on Hiring Technical Talent. I like Joel’s philosophy of focusing on the people causing great things to happen. Definitely a must listen for managers.

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Subversion and SSL Troubles

June 29, 2007

I decided to upgrade my home Subversion repository to version 1.4.3 as soon as it was released. Since then, my ViewVC application has ceased to work, getting a Python exception every time I try to execute it. Creating a small Python program that just imports the library (from svn import fs) [...]

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C64 and Unix Wordpress Blogs

April 29, 2007

These are the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Check out this wordpress blog that emulates a Commodore 64 CLI. There is also one that emulates a Unix command line. See the test run page or download the theme.

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Metrics As A Side Effect

April 15, 2007

Yesterday morning I found an article by a former employee who has recently introduced Scrum to his organization called Beef Up Your Scrum-Master Toolbox up on the Devx site. Since Doug started his blog and then subsequently left the company, I’ve enjoyed keeping up with his new adventures and I went right to [...]

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Video: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)

April 5, 2007

Since getting a 80G iPod about a month ago two weeks ago, I’ve been really getting into watching the Google Tech Talks on Google Video. I recently watched How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too), a lecture given by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman from the Subversion team [...]

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Wordpress 2.1.3 released.

April 5, 2007

Version 2.1.3 of the Wordpress blogging platform has been released and is available for download. According to the Wordpress blog, this is a security release that “includes fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems”.
I’ve upgraded, [...]

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