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At the Codehaus and at JBoss.org, I’ve continually come across Subversion repositories that needed to be split apart or merged, perhaps after converting from CVS. One problem you continually hit, particularly if you’re merging repositories, is the “date order of revisions” bug. Simply stated, if you create a new repository loaded from two […]

Mike “JIRA JIRA JIRA” Cannon-Brookes pinged me on IM tonight to let me know that Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. Cenqua, as you might know, makes the fancy-dandy FishEye product for viewing source repositories. Atlassian is the Australian wiki/bug-tracking giant run by stylish surfers.
Congrats to both groups. I enjoyed having beers with the […]

Rebecca and I have a habit of standing around, talking about all the things we could do to our house.
Some of our talk has centered around the ugly “patio” of poorly-laid bricks and easy-to-trip-over landscaping timbers.

This morning it was a brisk 65 degrees, perfect for some manual labor, so up came the patio.
Thankfully the people […]

Was signing up to try Remember The Milk, and thought the way they figure out your date-formatting preference was pretty smooth.

Well, that’s pretty darn simple.

Today, the Man In Brown showed up, and dropped off some boxes.
They were for my wife. Damn!
Then he came back! And brought a box for me. Inside the box there was some flavorless edible packing peanuts (they dissolved amazingly quickly in your mouth) protecting a Silent Paint Remover.
This thing rocks!
I live in an […]

Just a quick lifehack that I’ve started recently, completely unintentionally.
I picked up a huge bag of DenTek Easy Angle(tm) Floss Picks (”Flossing Made Easy!”) and keep them at my desk.
I previously thought I hated flossing. Now I’ve realized that I simply didn’t like wrapping thin string around my fingers until they turned blue. […]

Being an OSX user, I’ve felt massive amounts of unlove from TiVo, in terms of the TiVoDesktop, TiVoToGo, etc.  But now, man, the guys behind tivodecode have come to my rescue.  While playing with it, I also discovered that the TiVo actually produces a nice XML feed, and mine at least attempts to serve up […]

New feature?
Update: No, not a new feature.  A quick googling resulted in at least a sighting back in April.  This seems to be a feature specific to medical terms.

Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of work in Ruby. And yes, I’ve felt super-productive. Particularly compared to Java.
The downside of working in Java is the 100% Pure Java(tm) mentality. In the search for a clean and cohesive system, we take the attitude that if it’s not pure Java, it’s crap. […]

Continuing the trend of physical-world things you can buy at Lowe’s, I’d like to sing the praise of the charcoal chimney.
This summer, I decided to start grilling with actual chunks-of-wood charcoal, instead of pressed-and-formed McCharcoal Briquettes (now made with all white meat). Real charcoal does not include the mass-load of volatile organic compounds […]