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Bookmarks for February 8th through March 11th

by Ron Bieber on Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Bookmarks for January 9th through January 14th

January 15, 2009

Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists | Top Stories | News.com.au – "http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/13.html"
TestKit Documentation (xUnit for MacOSX and Objective C) – An xunit toolkit for the OSX / Objective C environment.
Source Control HOWTO – "I am writing a series of articles explaining how to do source control and the best practices thereof. [...]

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Practical Subversion – Second Edition

December 17, 2006

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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Upgrading Subversion to 1.4

October 1, 2006

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.

September 17, 2006

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

September 13, 2006

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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SVK Aquired by Best Practical

June 11, 2006

I’m a little behind on the mailing lists, but I found that on June 5 it was announced that Best Practical Solutions, LLC has aquired SVK. SVK is a distributed version control system written on top of Subversion and provides the ability to mirror Subversion and CVS repositories to your local machine in [...]

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Will The Build Bottleneck Put The Brakes On Agile?

August 18, 2005

There is a great article in the SD Times called Will The Build Bottleneck Put The Brakes On Agile? which talks about the use of both version control and an automated build process in which to receive feedback on the “health of the software” more frequently.
Our group has used Open Source products for this kind [...]

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Subversion 1.2.1 released.

July 6, 2005

Version 1.2.1 of the popular version control system has been released.

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SVK 1.0 Beta 2 released.

April 19, 2005

Yesterday, the release of SVK 1.0 Beta 2 was announced .
The announcements list the following changes since Beta 1:

Fix keyword translation for undesired characters. [matthewd]
Fix svk switch from a removed branch.
Don’t trust LML would return a valid encoding that Encode knows. [Eric Gillespie ]
Recognize merge-conflict error, so no stacktrace for it.
svk info [...]

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A Core Skill Set that All Developers Should Posess

August 14, 2004

As I talk to people I am very surprised at the lack of importance attached to source control in some development organizations. It seems that many teams either do not use it at all, or developers do not see why they have to understand it. The common theme [...]

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