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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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