To force your svn client to ignore files and folders from Subversion without
using the svn:ignore property, edit ~/.subversion/config. This file …

I’m excited to read Rework – the excerpts I read were excellent! You
can read more about the book at Signal vs. Noise, an
outstanding blog by …

Interesting survey results from ThoughtWorkers on version control: VcsSurvey To summarize, ThoughtWorkers strongly prefer Subversion, git, and …

“We are irrational. Proof: We believe we are rational.” From Bruce Eckel’s recent post entitled A Golf Ball to the Forehead.

Prepare before the meeting starts. More than 10 minutes. State the purpose of the meeting at the beginning of the meeting. Without a stated purpose, …

$ open .

In one minute, you can run one manual test or 100 automated tests. How would
you prefer to spend that minute? And what happens when you change some …

Mac OS X Snow Leopard has VPN support built in, so you don’t have to install
the Cisco VPN client. (If there’s one thing I dislike, it

Alt, Space, X This appears to be the only way to do it. I wish there were a quicker way,
like Win + M does for minimize.

“Why aren’t more of us using YAML with Java and Groovy?” From SnakeYAML and Groovy, my latest post on Inside the Machine.