Posted in General, Python, ruby on Apr 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been playing with Ruby a bit recently. The big question: is the language better than python ? For me it comes down to a punchup between 2 killer features: Ruby’s blocks vs Python’s whitespace-indent magic.
Ruby’s smalltalk style blocks are great - they neatly support looping, closures and resource management idioms in one simple powerful […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan, workfriendly, versioncontrol on Apr 26th, 2006 4 Comments »
I’ve been using bazaarNG (bzr) for bicyclerepairman version control recently, but I’ve also got a close eye on Mercurial(hg) and Git.
Git is Linus’ implementation of a distributed SCM tool (sort of) for use with managing the decentralized development of the linux kernel, Mercurial is a project started at much the same time as Linux steered […]
Posted in General, food, bakery on Apr 24th, 2006 No Comments »
I tried a couple of american recipes recently, and I have to say: the cups system of measuring is so much better than metric for cookery.
Basically, rather than saying 125g or 50 ml or whatever, the recipes say 1/2 cup, or 3/4 cup etc.. Once you’ve seen what a ‘cup’ looks like, you can easily […]
Posted in General, workfriendly, programming on Apr 24th, 2006 No Comments »
One benefit of using the decentralized ‘every programmer has their own branch’ approach to source control that I hadn’t thought of until I tried it:
You can commit more frequently.
This is because you can commit without impacting others. With CVS and subversion I usually keep a little commit text file where I pile up the commitlog […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan on Apr 11th, 2006 2 Comments »
I didn’t have a weblog when I originally wrote the bulk of the bicyclerepairman querying and refactoring functionality, which I think is a shame because it meant that the design decisions never really got documented.
In an attempt to rectify this I’m (hopefully) going to sling these up onto my weblog now in the hope that […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan on Apr 11th, 2006 5 Comments »
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve switched Bicyclerepairman source control from CVS to BazaarNG as an experiment. This has been working out really well for me and so I’ve made a public branch of my tree available here. You can also grab a nightly tarball from that location too.
