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Wordpress 2.1 Released

by Ron Bieber January 24, 2007 Wordpress

The Wordpress team has announced the release of version 2.1 of their Wordpress blogging software on Monday. A list of the changes can be found in the release announcement.
Sure, this is old news (by internet time standards) but I just got around to getting caught up. I’ve upgraded the site [...]

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Studying Up On Ruby

by Ron Bieber December 27, 2006 Flickr Picks

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I’ve been focusing on Ruby a lot over the past 3 days (Rails specifically). What a great environment to work in!

This was taken about a month ago. I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and experimenting with Rails and I have to say, I love it. [...]

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Denying Spammers

by Ron Bieber December 24, 2006 Wordpress

I’ve been having a real problem with the site being hit hard by spammers lately. Consequently, I have turned comments off on most of the articles on the site at this point.
Due to the implementation of SPAM Karma 2 and Akismet, none of the comment spam actually made it [...]

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Practical Subversion – Second Edition

by Ron Bieber December 17, 2006 Books

I received a free copy of Practical Subversion, Second Edition by Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooney on Friday from their publishers, Apress.
I had reviewed the first edition before it was released and had found it to be an excellent companion to “Version Control with Subversion” (C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian [...]

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The Windows “Shutdown Button Project”

by Ron Bieber November 27, 2006 Remaindered

A really interesting article describing project dynamics around the Windows Vista Shutdown menu. I found this on Slashdot.

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Wordpress 2.0.5 Released

by Ron Bieber October 28, 2006 Wordpress

The folks on the Wordpress team have released version 2.0.5 of the Wordpress Blogging Application. This release includes around 50 bug fixes one of which was a missing index on the posts table. I just upgraded and the site performs much better now. I had always thought that [...]

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Building Subversion on The Mac and using Ecto for Blogging

by Ron Bieber October 6, 2006 Macintosh

I finally upgraded my Subversion installation on my MacIntosh to the 1.4 version. I was waiting for the “official” packages to come out so that I could just install it, but in looking at the different places recommended by the downloads page, these distributions haven’t been updated since early 1.3 releases.
I’ve had a [...]

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Upgrading Subversion to 1.4

by Ron Bieber October 1, 2006 Software Development

This weekend I finally bit the bullet and upgraded our production Subversion server to 1.4. The upgrade was painless, after the usual running of autogen.sh on the Neon libraries that for some reason are necessary when building on the Solaris 9 environment. I also had some weird test failures that wound [...]

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Japanese Translations of SVK Tutorials.

by Ron Bieber September 17, 2006 Remaindered

Kato Atsushi is making Japanese translations of the SVK tutorials available. These are a work in progress. Part I is up so far. Thanks Kato!

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Subversion 1.4 Released

by Ron Bieber September 13, 2006 Subversion

The Subversion team has released version 1.4 of its popular version control software. You can check out the release notes over at the official site get the the details, but here’s a summary of the changes, pulled directly from the aforementioned release notes:

svnsync, a new repository mirroring tool
Huge working-copy performance improvements
Support for BerkeleyDB [...]

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Jon Udell Screening Room Screencast on IronPython

by Ron Bieber September 10, 2006 Software Development

Episode 8 of Jon Udell’s The Screening Room features Jim Hugunin, creator of Jython and now IronPython, a .NET implementation of Python. For Python fans, this is a fascinating screen-cast to watch. They’ve done some great work on IronPython, which just hit its 1.0 release this week.
Some of the cool things [...]

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Sun Hires JRuby Development Team

by Ron Bieber September 9, 2006 Remaindered

Tim Bray talks about the recent hiring of the JRuby development team by Sun Microsystems. I think this is awesome. I’m so impressed with the Ruby language and would love to see it operate in a container and leverage all of the great Java components out there. Cote also [...]

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SvnX : A Mac OSX Subversion Client

by Ron Bieber July 29, 2006 Remaindered

I haven’t looked at it yet, but definitely will be. SvnX is a Mac OSX client for the Subversion Version Control System.

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Wordpress 2.0.4 released.

by Ron Bieber July 29, 2006 Wordpress

The Wordpress team has released version 2.0.4 of the Wordpress blogging software. From the release notes:

This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s highly recommended for all users. We’ve also rolled in a number of bug fixes (over 50!), so it’s a pretty solid release across the board.

This release contains security fixes. [...]

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Thoughtworks Buildix Package

by Ron Bieber July 26, 2006 Remaindered

I was going to write about the Buildix product released by Thoughtworks but Keith woke up from his blogging hibernation and beat me to it. It looks like a cool product.

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Random Thoughts on Lean Principles

by Ron Bieber July 26, 2006 Books

Last night I finally received my copy of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. I’ve actually had quite a few books on order and as they’ve been coming I’ve hoped that they were this one. Finally it got here.
I started getting really [...]

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Interview with Dave Thomas on Agile

by Ron Bieber July 20, 2006 Software Development

I found a really good podcast called The Agile Toolkit Podcast, in which the host, Bob Payne, attends agile conferences and interviews people there. Some of the interviews include people like Bob Martin and Mary Poppendieck among many others.
The most interesting show I’ve listened to so far is an interview with Dave Thomas [...]

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New Things To Learn!

by Ron Bieber July 16, 2006 Macintosh

One of the really nice things about switching platforms is the plethora of new things one now has the capability to learn that you might not have found a reason to learn before.
I’m a stickler on having something practical to do when learning something. If I don’t have a real thing to shoot [...]

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Feedback on Review of Agile and Iterative Development: A Managers Guide

by Ron Bieber June 22, 2006 Remaindered

Someone found my review of the book Agile and Iterative Development : A Managers Guide. Seeing the phrase “The Evidence chapter in
and of itself is worth the price of the book” in the review, he shot me this link from xprogramming.com called Misstating the Evidence for Agile and Iterative Development.

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Alistair Cockburn on Agile Software Development

by Ron Bieber June 22, 2006 Remaindered

Tom the Architect pointed me to this podcast on IT Conversations featuring Alistair Cockburn talking about Agile Software Development and his new methodology Crystal Clear.

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