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Late to the party (again): Version Control for all your files
Like all good developers, I keep my source in version control (you are a good developer, aren't you?). However, I started to expand its use lately, keeping my home directory in version control (in my case Subversion). Yes, I know, that's nothing new, lots of people do it. I now understand why.
I tend to work on one of three machines, and I've always had the problem of keeping my work in sync on the machines. I've dabbled with Google Docs, SyncToy, RoboCopy and other solutions, but none of them have seemed all that satisfying and/or cross platform enough. Then...
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Phrase of the day: CRIN
CRIN:code runs in notepadFor all those times you crank off a quick one or ten liner in email or on a whiteboard. It "Should work", but don't check it in...
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Leopard - one weekend in
Well, I've had an entire weekend to play with Leopard, so it's initial review time.
So far, the migration has seemed both painless and pointless. OK, maybe pointless would be the wrong word - perhaps "without any compelling need" would be better. I have to admit, I've turned on cover flow for my documents, and I flipped through them. Dazzling, and I suppose it could be useful were I still generating a lot of PowerPoint. I like the new dock, although I'm a little sad that I can't use Fan view because I keep my dock on the left hand side....
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Lies, damed lies and (glorious) stats
Via The Frontal Cortex, I see that Amazon now has a few tidbits of information about some books, so I had to take a look to see the last two I worked on (not entirely my work/words, but mostly for amusement).
Professional XML:
These statistics are computed from the text of this book. (learn more)
Readability (learn more)
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Quote of the day
G got me started reading Heather Mallick's essays on the CBC Web site. She's usually amusing, enlightening and whatnot, even if I'm nowhere near as literate as she. I had to pull this out of today's though so that I can come back to it in the future:
People should consider talking to the last person they would ever consider.