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open source

Subversion and branching strategies

April 27, 2011

What is Subversion Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to SVN in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion boasts many advanced features, such as atomic commits, versioned directories, and good support for binary file formats, fast branching and tagging. The open source Apache [...]

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When is open source and standardization right?

March 12, 2009

Standardization is essential for certain parts of the stack, those items that change least frequently i.e lower in the stack. Higher in the stack needs to change frequently and here standardization kills innovation.  We need to remember it take a lot of time to get to a standard and also Open Source will always be [...]

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GIT – Version Control

February 25, 2009

I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion.  view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged [...]

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ASUS Eee PC 900 BF001 Netbook, Linux Preloaded, 1GB RAM

November 16, 2008

I recently got this netbook as a replacement for my Nokia N810; the new version of the Nokia comes out next year, so i wanted to get the best price for it now. I’ve had the Eee for a week now and must say that i’ve found it to be better than expected. It’s main [...]

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Sky Travel Website

October 20, 2008

Back at the start of the year my team  launched the  Sky Travel site .  Since then it has changed  a lot and has a number of roll-outs planned to the end of the year.  Its got a great design and  some excellent  JavaScript work using JQuery.  Well worth a look if your planning a [...]

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Ruby on Rails

June 27, 2008

Not having the time to code in Java as i once did, i thought that i decided that it was about time to have a go at a new language.  I selected Ruby and the Rails framework as i had enjoyed the debate i had at QCon and felt that it would help me understand [...]

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Intellij Shortcuts Key List list plugin

May 19, 2008

Shaz ,on my team, came up with this as he missed the same functionality that was available in explipse. The plugin allows you to Displays the shortcuts list with ctrl+shift+K like eclipse, or through Help->shortkcutList. Press “esc” to close the popupdialogue. Shortcuts plugin Zolpidem tartrate Keppra levetiracetam Pms diclofenac sr Effects flexeril side Ciprofloxacin use [...]

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Sky Travel Site Launched

January 22, 2008

I am happy to announce that my team have just launched the new Sky Travel site . It is a complete re-development form the ground up and integrates with multiple providers to provide a breath of product offerings.  It has been built using open source Java technology (Tomcat, Mysql, Apache) and uses the Spring and [...]

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