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!

• 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

• Subversion Best Practices
  A short and good article
• open standards throughout the globe
  “open” fitted into a single picture
• Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby
  I know a barber with a similar name
• Background Animations Using MooTools
  Are these the Simpsons clouds?

• 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

• upstart – event based init daemon
  Ui. Das ist irgendwie an mir vorbei gegangen.
• Act Like a Senior Developer – About Clean Code
  Das mit der Dependecy Injection muss ich mir noch mal genauer anschauen, definitiv lesenswert.
• Git for Subversion users, Part 2: Taking control
  Hab ich da den ersten Part eigentlich schon gelesen?

Bin grad beim PC zusammenschrauben. Details dazu bald…

• Announcing boo2pdf
  IBM Bookmanager to PDF Conversion Tool. Hätte ich vor acht Jahren gebraucht. Mal sehen, ob ich das nochmal brauche.
• The busy Java developer’s guide to Scala: Updating Twitter, with Scitter
  Hype Alarm! Oder ist da doch mehr dahinter?
• Fallgruben in BASH
  Ich liebe solche Posts!
• What Mother never told you about SVN Branching and Merging
  Ich hatte schon lang keinen Link mehr zu einem SCM Thema. Endlich wieder was gutes gefunden.