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SVN 1.5

Well – (finally) Subversion 1.5 is out! 
For the first time svn has built in support for repeated merges without spurious conflicts or manually managing the list of previously merged revisions.
This is _fantastic_ news. The basis of the merge tracking feature in 1.5 was svnmerge.py which means that many svn users will already have a reasonable idea [...]


Eric Evans on over-design and intrinsic complexity

Just watched a great presentation by Eric Evans (of Domain Driven Design fame) called: Strategic Domain-Driven Design – Effective Modelling for Larger Projects. I highly recommend it.
Here’s a couple of great quotes (It’s worth noting that he’s talking about large projects):
Not everything is going to be well designed.
You may have a part [of a system] [...]


Naming things

[Ed: I've been on holiday and both ends of it have been sandwiched with more work than my team can handle - they got 4 websites live last week alone! I'm slowly clawing my workload back down - yesterday I built a functional equivalent of the Wufoo form builder. Anyway - back to your scheduled [...]


ERP, Financials and Large Databases

It seems like Workday is getting quite a bit of press about their vision for flexible, hosted (ala the Adam Bosworth funded Salesforce.com) ERP software. Looks like Xero might have a fight on it’s hands with SAP and Oracle both trying to enter the hosted mid size business market.
Whats interesting to me about all this [...]


Business Intelligence in Business Apps

I’ve been mulling over Ron Kohavi’s paper Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenge. In the space of applications that I work on – Business Intelligence and Analytics are becoming more and more important. It’s not just important that the system allows you to do whatever. (The classic post Blog entries for example). I [...]


Git

I managed to find some time to watch this today: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Git is a distributed SCM system – Linus wrote it in two weeks. It seems like it’s getting some traction among some of the Rails crowd. Mozilla seriously considered adopting it for Mozilla 2 work but the lack of a [...]