Joel Spolsky writes: "Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby"
Subversion Version Control System
- This popular and free software helps you track the entire history of changes to your project's documents and files, whether it's just you changing them or a team spread across the planet. Contributing to the development of this open-source software began as a fun and enlightening hobby for me, and has been a rewarding day job too.
I was speaking about the "obliterate" feature that I'm currently developing, which will help users and administrators manage their old Subversion history. My ten minutes of fame start at slide 20:
This 7-minute video elegantly shows the swarm of people contributing source code and documentation to form the Subversion project. You can see "kfogel" and "jrobbins" starting the development in 2000, new people joining in as they hear about it, some staying active while others fade away, right up to the release of version 1.5 in June 2008.
I became a committer in August 2003, shortly after version 0.24 was released.
The files or changes being committed are shown as dots around the log-in name of the committer. The bigger the change, the brighter it's shown. The committers shown are sometimes committing changes contributed by other people. Different colours distinguish between core source code, documentation, and other kinds of files, described right at the end of the video.
Anna Crane - New Year Cruise (January 2009)
Solar Panels information and shop at Midsummer Energy
My notes about Wind Turbines
Wychurst - Constructing an Anglo-Saxon great hall and burh. See also the history of the project on Regia Anglorum's web site.
I made a Saxon-style six-string lyre in spring 2005 from plans by Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson and Thóra Sharptooth. Pictures: Under construction; Pegs end; Bridge end.
Old English Picture Dictionary Wiki started by James Johnson.
Late Junction - mellow and varied music. Usually 10:15pm Mon-Thu, BBC Radio 3, or listen again. Probably my favourite radio programme.
Follyfoot - stories by Monica Dickens and an adorable TV series.
On-Line Short Films - short films to watch for free.
Links to interesting web sites
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My Music Collection
