The poll has been closed. After over 100 votes, Git has emerged as the winner, although not resoundingly so. The only notable “other” was ClearCase with about 6% of the vote. The final results table is below. Git 35% CVS 24% Mercurial 22% Other 12% Perforce 5% Bazaar 2% Thanks to all those who took… [Read more…]
October 11, 2010
It was so much fun using the poll technology last time, I thought I would try again. You may be familiar with Saros — our plug-in which provides distributed collaborative editing in Eclipse — and you may even know that Saros now features version control system (VCS) integration, so that all participants can work directly… [Read more…]
October 6, 2010
I spend less time than ever these days reading about politics, not that I ever had a great interest to begin with, but I happen across the odd news report from Blighty now and again, just to stay knowledgeable throughout my exile from the Kingdom. I don’t know quite how long this particularly oddity that… [Read more…]
October 4, 2010
Saros, the best plug-in to give you distributed collaborative editing in Eclipse, continues to improve. In our latest release (10.10.01) the Saros Team has provided a lot of bugfixes and improvements. Visually the layout has changed a little. Using Saros is now so adaptable that we’ve had to group the growing number of menu items… [Read more…]
September 27, 2010
Once again, clearing up some enjoyable reading of the past few months: Books Thomas Paine. Rights of Man. One of the original libertarians, a term that has pretty much lost its original meaning these days. The core ideas that came forth from his work, radical at the time, are simple. That rights are inherent in… [Read more…]
September 13, 2010
Not so many years ago, I was one of the people in the education system, spending much of the working day being lectured to. Being a geek, most of my subjects involved mathematical, scientific or computing related material, which is often complex and requires (from me at least) intense objective mental effort to understand them,… [Read more…]
September 6, 2010
To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE)… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
Not many votes (about 20 or so at time of reading), but Google App Engine seems to be a big favourite for Eclipse users, gathering half the votes by itself. Looks like I have some reading up on Google App Engine to do…
October 18, 2010
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