YASDW – yet another software developer weblog

• VcsSurvey
  Martin Fowler with VCS survey data
• IE6 Funeral
  It’s over. Finally.
• A Simple Step-by-Step Reportlab Tutorial
  PDF creation with Python

• Why I’m leaving Subversion for Git
  Another switch …
• On Small Applications
  Does something even exist?
• The Python String Concatenation Shootout
  And does this really matter?

• My Future of Web Frameworks Presentation
  Nice overview about what was and what (maybe) will be.
• Kann man Google irgendwie entkommen?
  Pfu. Schwierige Aufgabe. Bin schon gespannt auf weitere Schritte.
• Speed up your dev cycle with git
  Switching from a central to a distributed SCM can (and probably will)  be mind-blowing.

• How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection
  Nice educational stuff
• FireRainbow
  News from the firefox/firebug plugin side
• Branching Strategies: When To Branch And Merge
  with a follow-up: Branching Strategies: The Cost Of Branching And Merging

• Subversion 1.7 to enable Git-like features
  I’m surprised. Offline commits for svn? That’s an interesting move
• CouchDB
  Another CouchDB intro
• Methods of Work: It Didn’t Happen If You Didn’t Write It Down
  I have to make more notes. Much more!

• Apache Project Releases PDF Tools
  Seems that this is widely used in other Open Source Applications, see the References
• A Visual Git Reference
  Git in Pictures
• Migrating a Spring/Hibernate application to MongoDB – Part 1
  Maybe I need this sometime.

• Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects
  “Your releases are only in .arj format [ +50 points of FAIL ]“
• VersionControlTools
  Maybe the most cited Blog entry today. Good stuff.
• 10+ useful online code editors
  With a vim style editor, of course

• Windows 3.1 in your Browser
  Unbelievable. Someone really recreated the Windows 3.1 User Experience in JavaScript
• web2py^TM Enterprise Web Framework
  An Open Source Python Web Framework
• git-like line counts in svn using bash
  Nice subversion script

• git-goggles
  Git utilities for working with remote branches and code reviews
• Tasque
  A task management application for Gnome. RTM Interface included
• 10 Things To Improve Your Development Career
  This is good stuff!
• Vimcasts
  Nice vim screencasts

Today, only open source links. Unintentionally …

• Ubuntu Manpage Repository
  The Ubuntu Manpages as Webpages – searchable of course.
• FOSSCasts
  Screencasts on various Open Source topics.
• Git – SVN Crash Course
  Git – the fast way. For svn users, like I am/was.