Entries from July 2005 ↓

Source Control Tools

As someone who’s specialized in software artifact management over the past ten years, I’ve had the opportunity to use most of the mainstream source control tools. Some are better than others and a couple of them are truly pigs.
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Backups

Everyone has been bitten at least once over the years when a critical system crashes… and you have no backup. Since I run a production site used by thousands of people across the globe daily, being unprepared like that is simply not an option for me.
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San Francisco Bay Sailing

When Zero G was aquired recently by Macrovision, I had the good fortune to be invited to the last occurence of what had been annual event for Zero G: sailing out to Angel Island for a picnic.
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Free CVS Hosting

Did you know that freepository offers free CVS hosting? And has done so since 1999?
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India

I’ve finally moved the photos from my trip to India online. I was in Hyderabad in late March training engineers for one of the world’s largest software companies on how to use SolutionArchitect and the Solution Install runtime.

The airport photos are in Frankfurt - yes, that was my plane. I had a R/T Business Class ticket from Denver that costs $8000 - that’s not a typo. Though the flight was long, I was comfortable.

Those are photos of the Taj Krishna, a five star hotel in Hyderabad. It was pretty nice. Ask me about the band in the hotel lounge sometime…

 
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