Greg Stein of Collabnet was at Apple today giving a talk on Subversion, the version control system intended to fix what’s broken in CVS.
Subversion offers some nice features:
Everything’s stored in a Berkeley DBM file.
Managing labels and branches is easier than in CVS. To branch, you just svn copy the HEAD from your tree to a [...]
Photos from OSCOM3
Ceiling of the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School where the Keynotes were given
Apache Cocoon Lenya developer Michi Wechner gives a tutorial.
Roger and Christian demonstrate the Bitflux Editor.
Jon Udell gives a non-controversial keynote Friday morning.
Gregor and Paul’s Advogato article on getting Open Source projects working together came up at the closing session of OSCOM Cambridge. It’s a good response to Tony Byrne’s CMS Watch editorial on the proliferation of Open Source CMS projects.
I’ll be at OSCOM, in Cambridge at the end of May.
RefDB is an open source package for maintaining biblographies. It can import and export TEI and DocBook style references.
Fine, you hipsters, go to Austin, take your photo in the mirror of Bruce’s bathroom, have your date hit on by the lead singer of a band that was big in the 1980s.
I’m going skiing. (Cue the yodelling soundtrack occasionally used on Ren and Stimpy)
The folks at the OSCOM sprint in Zurich next week plan [...]
Siege is a stress test tool for web servers. It’s written in C, and based on Lincoln Stein’s torture.pl.
It does not have the function set of JMeter, but if you want to verify your server will not fold when flooded with requests, this is a good first step.
My friend Rick Kier, who works in UW Madison’s IT organization, emailed in response to the “Walled Garden” discussion to bring up the Internet 2 Shibboleth project:
In the Old Testament, somewhere in Judges, there’s a story of how, after a battle, the Gileadite warriors needed to distinguish their own side and their enemies, the Ephraimites. [...]
[ via Danny O'Brian's Oblomovka ] One great thing about Perl is the community. The people using the language want to help. That’s good because Perl can be frustrating in it’s ‘more than one way to do it’-ness. For the past three years, the Perl Advent Calendar has been walking people through the use of [...]
Today’s Meet the Makers conference was worth the effort to get up to the City on a Monday morning. The interviews with the people behind large sites — Shiva Shivakumar of Google, and Steve Weinstein of Vicinity — were an excellent contrast in building the data for your site, or integrating several existing databases. Jeff [...]
[ via BoingBoing ] Mena and Ben released a stand-alone Perl implementation of Moveable Type’s Trackback that you can wire into your own weblogging tools. It’s released under the Artistic License. Yay!
I installed the Mozilla 1.1 beta yesterday and was pleased to see the LinkBar is back by default!
Fan fiction about, um, people like you and me.
Tony: OK. But in the worst case you can rewrite it from scratch?
Paul: And who will save me from the hit-men that Joel Sposlky is going to send to kill me?
The Fink project’s page on hacking libtool to work with OS X came in handy last Thursday when I was working to build a PHP with Sablotron for OS X. If you’re building shared libraries for OS X, you’ll want this information, and the bash shell. Dave Becket had been running into the same problems [...]
Fly Enhancer is an Open Genomics project that provides a free search engine for the Fruit Fly genome for non-commercial research. Not only is it free, but it’s orders of magnitude faster than commerical genome search tools.
