After a few months of doing python development, which to me still feels like a straight jacket. I had some Java coding to do last week and promptly wasted a few hours checking out the latest toys, being:
Eclipse 3.4 M7
Hudson
Findbugs for Hudson
Eclipse 3.4 M7 is the first milestone I’ve tried for the upcoming Eclipse release. [...]
Also tagged eclipse, java, osgi, python, reviewsThis little article is a summary of how I currently manage my wordpress blog. The wordpress.org site lists some advice on how to manage a wordpress installation using subversion. However, I have a slightly more sophisticated setup that preserves my modifications (as long as they don’t conflict) that I maintain in a private branch of [...]
Also tagged problemsandsolutions, versionmanagement, wordpressAs you may recall, I had a nice incident recently which made me really appreciate the fact that I was able to restore my data from a backup. Over the years I’ve sort of gobbled together my own backup solution using rsync (I use the cygwin port to windows).
First a little about hardware. Forget about [...]
using svnsync
Useful but requires a 1.4 repository on both ends. For win32 you can use this line:
cmd %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
in a pre-revprop-change.bat
(tags: subversion svn svnsync Development)
Also taggedFor a few weeks I’ve been waiting for cygwin to update their subversion binaries. But for some reason they are not in a hurry. Subversion 1.4 was recently released and this time it includes some changes to both the repository format and the work directory format. If you use 1.4 binaries on your workdirectory, it [...]
Also tagged versionmanagementIf you use TortoiseSvn (a popular subversion frontend that integrates into explorer), you might be interested in xdocdiff. This tool can be plugged in as a diff viewer for several binary file formats, including .doc .pdf .ppt and .xls. It works by converting both revisions of a file to txt and then using the regular [...]
Also tagged reviews, versionmanagementHaving worked with subversion quite extensively, I know what to expect from a proper versioning system. However, I’m currently working in a project with a cvs server. Here’s a few of my observations:
I can’t seem to get tortoisecvs and eclipse to work together on the same checked out repository. Reason: tortoisecvs does not support eclipse’s [...]
Also tagged eclipse, java, versionmanagementI found this article rather insightful -Ofun
I agree with most of it. Many software projects (commercial, oss, big & small) have strict guidelines with respect to write access to soure repositories and usage of these rights. As the author observes many of these restrictions find their roots in the limited ability of legacy revision control [...]
For the zillionth time I decided to spend some time trying to get subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) to play nice with our svn+ssh repository at work. For those scratching their heads: eclipse is a popular java development ide; subversion is a version management system and subclipse is a subversion backend for eclipse’s team synchronization functionality. Until [...]
Also tagged eclipse, java, versionmanagement
