Posted in General, Semantic Web, workfriendly, programming, REST on May 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
I just did a little bit of testing at work and thought I’d dump it here for future googlers:
We’ve got an internal app team building some REST webservices and they wanted to know the practical limits of GET URL length. Now browser limits are well known, but since the clients will be programatic they wanted […]
Posted in General, Python, workfriendly, programming, versioncontrol on May 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
Ok - for me it boils down to: hg’s speed vs bzr’s renames
Mercurial is much much quicker. That’s not an imperical measurement using a large source tree - it’s an anecdotal observation on a tiny one.
For example, just typing ‘hg’ returns in 80ms, ‘bzr’ takes more than half a second: That’s just to dump the […]
Posted in General, Python, BicycleRepairMan on May 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
BicycleRepairMan operates by searching and modifying python files on the filesystem, and thus has always required that you save your work before you do a query or a refactoring. I’ve never felt this to be a big deal before, but more recently I’ve been using its functionality more aggressively within emacs and I’ve started to […]
