2005-01-05 15:35:03

Wednesday tidbits

Version control best practices

For those of you waiting for the next chapter of my Source Control HOWTO, there is good news and bad news:

• The good news is that I am writing again.  I just posted chapter 6, which covers history and labels.
• The bad news is that chapter 6 is not about branching like I planned it would be.  I started writing the branching chapter and realized I needed to cover labels and history first.  I am once again working on the branching chapter, which should become chapter 7.  :-)

Changing everything but his wardrobe...

Chapter 6 contains an admittedly gratuitous mention of Tim Krauskopf, founder of Spyglass.  Tim is probably the smartest person I have ever known.  My brain works reasonably fast, but in every conversation with Tim I am struggling to keep up.  I look back at my years at Spyglass and still can't believe I learned so much stuff.  Working for "TimK" was the defining experience of my career. 

Tim's own career has taken an interesting new direction in the last year or two.  He's gotta be the only person on earth whose typical week involves driving a semi truck, driving a Lamborghini, and hacking C++ to decode GPS data.  It was inevitable that someone in the press would eventually tell his story.  Earlier this week the Chicago Sun Times finally did.  Congratulations Tim!

If you can't say something nasty, then don't say anything at all.

The week before Christmas my server machine was "cracked" by Internet vandals somewhere in Brazil.  I have tried several times to write about this event, but I can't seem to craft a fitting reaction without using lots and lots of profanities.  I don't think I want my weblog to become that kind of place, so it turns out that I have nothing to say.