Archive for November, 2007

In case you missed it Interface21, the company behind the popular Spring Framework, has re-branded itself and will henceforth be known as SpringSource.
Same folks with a slightly less mysterious name.

Branching and merging has always been one of the development gotchas regardless of the particular source control system.
Take a typical scenario where you’ve found yourself working on a private branch that has forked off of a release branch which was forked off of the trunk.  In an ideal world, the private branch can rather easily [...]

More for personal interest than anything else but I’ve decided to re-write and open-source part of what I worked on for the last hack day.
I’ve called it JDBCSpy and it’s available over on Google Code.  It’s worth noting that there are a couple of other projects that also aim to accomplish more or less similar [...]

Over the past 4 and a half years I’ve been part of many moves and office re-organizations.  From my rather brief experience over the past few years, these activities are done with the goal of creating more available space for desks.  It’s rare that they’re done with the goal of improving team efficiencies and reducing [...]




  • Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...

  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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