not waving but drowning

Now with extra speed! This release has some great fixes and enhancements:
The main changes in this release are: faster log, annotate, and other history-based operations, a new option for hardlinked working trees, and several bug fixes.
If your project has a long history with a lot of revisions, you really want to upgrade to this release [...]

I’ve been hassling Brian to move libmemcached to bazaar for a while now, tonight we finally got a continuous import from mercurial going into bazaar, and published on launchpad. Using bzr fast-import along with hg-fast-export, this was really easy. I’m thrilled to see all the fast-export/fast-import tools that have sprouted up between git, mercurial, and [...]

Github has published pricing plans. I really like their “forking”, which is really server side branching/cloning, we need to do the same thing in launchpad.
Tonight accidentally ended up at Acropolis in Tampa after Darcy bought me a new black suit, had some fantastic greek food.
Bazaar is now a GNU project. This happened a couple of [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve converted most of the last 10 years of Erlang history into a Bazaar branch. I did this by downloading all the source releases, then progressively importing and committing into Bazaar branch, then publishing the whole thing to Launchpad. Just click on the code tab to get directions for grabbing [...]

twitter feed on the left now shows 3 entries instead of one, added pulse of ubuntu twitter feed below that with the 15 latest tweets from the “planet ubuntu on crack” twitter feed. code feeds on the right are now working, although what I really want is the latest branches I’ve authored, not “random branches [...]

I work with bazaar every day, and have a pretty stable workflow, so I don’t always notice right away when some neat new feature makes it in. Here are a few things that have impressed me this week:

There is a new merge algorithm available called LCA, and it is really neat. See ‘bzr help remerge’ [...]

Six Apart has published an article trashing WordPress. The article just seems pathetic and desperate. It’s so important to compete without trashing the competition - at MySQL we even had a rule that people were not allowed to make disparaging comments about platforms. This is a good reminder to be careful with Bazaar advocacy too [...]

Yesterday was incredibly busy: up early to fix my car that wouldn’t start, finally replaced the battery and it seems fine. then drove 2 hours to plant city to install 19 TVs for sign language convention next weekend, 2 hours home, then built bunk beds. Did some review of dynamic code loading in Erlang before [...]

If Version Control Systems were Airlines. Very funny post, considering that I advocate Bazaar so much. Even funnier is that I still have my BeOS disks sitting around somewhere. I will now make 3 lists of version control systems.
Systems I have been paid to use:

PVCS
Visual Source Safe
CVS
Subversion
Bitkeeper
Bazaar

Systems that I use regularly (once a week or [...]

I’ve been trying to use RememberTheMilk as my one trusted system, even though I am very undisciplined personally. I think one of the reasons RTM is working for me is because there are so many ways to interact with it:

web
offline with google gears
mobile web
milksync
email (can enter tasks with text messages this way)
Gmail greasemonkey plugin to [...]