Programming
Check out subversion repositories with ViewVC
This week’s TechMail is Check out subversion repositories with ViewVC which is pretty much just about installing and configuring the ViewVC web-based tool to view subversion repositories (works with cvs too).
If programming languages were religions…
Found this really cute/funny blog post today about programming languages being religions, or the comparison of programming languages to religions (i.e. C being Judaism, Visual Basic being Satanism, etc.). Quite funny. Here’s the link: If programming languages were religions….
Is the new Komodo 5 toolset worth the upgrade?
This week’s Techmail looks at some of the new features of ActiveState’s Komodo IDE and asks Is the new Komodo 5 toolset worth the upgrade?. Personally, I think it was. Others may or may not agree… someone else has already posted about using a “real” IDE (Eclipse). Gag me with a spoon.
Zsh tab completion with subversion 1.5
This has ticked me off for a bit, and I finally decided to find out why. Tab completion in zsh was returning the following every time I tried to use it, after upgrading to subversion 1.5: _arguments:comparguments:303: invalid argument: ARG Looks like the reason is that the subversion developers changed “arg” to “ARG”. So when [...]
Subversion 1.5.x upgrade oddities
Found some weirdness with subversion 1.5 today. I had previously upgraded to 1.5.1 when it came out (from 1.4.x) and found I couldn’t commit to svn+ssh urls. 1.5.2 fixes that, but has a naughty habbit of upgrading the repository format behind your back. So, if you have a working copy you checked out with 1.4.x [...]
Try command-line looping for added efficiency
Last week’s TechMail was Try command-line looping for added efficiency which discusses using loops in the shell to iterate over a number of items while using particular commands (i.e. for loops in the shell). Extremely useful stuff if you’ve ever needed to repeat something without wanting to hit the up arrow to change one thing [...]