Google Announcement

There is a comparison of features between SF and Google Code over at Engtech.  There is also an article on Newsforge.  I have already set up an account and checked in the code for K2 so that I can play a bit... I am currently underwhelmed.

Google announced their Google Code Project hosting service today at the O'reilly Open Source convention.  Greg Stein of Apache, SVN and WebDAV fame announced in his session the new service from Google that is targeted at the Open Source Community.

The new service is set up to be a 'sourceforge' like offering, hosted on Google's servers.  The new service will integrate subversion, issue tracking, mailing lists, etc into one Google-fied package.  This being Google there is a heavy smattering of search technology throughout.  The new system will allow you to search your issue tracker and svn for instance.

This new service will be running out of Google Code Hosting.

More to come as time permits.

Something is in the wind

As you can see, I am sporting one of the many styles that are available for K2 on the site.

I am feverishly working on the next version of Sillyness, and I thought that in the interim I would highlight some of my personal favorite styles that are available for K2.  I am hoping that things are settling down enough to get back to serious work on K2, so look for more on that front in the coming weeks.

And if I don't showcase your style, its nothing personal mate; Tastes are different is all.

Tagging and merging in SVN

I have spoke about SVN before, specifically how to set up and use it on MacOS X.  Now I am going to cover one of the more useful, and frustrating features of SVN; breaking up your development into trunk (active development) and tags (feature frozen releases).

First of all, why tag?

There are two models that you can follow when developing a large, enterprise scale application.  You can check your code into SVN, and effectively have nothing but trunk, that is you will have one version of the code for said project, and you will make checkouts from it when you have reached a certain level of maturity and featurefullness.  In the case of a web application, the most popular practice when using this scenario is to have your website running out of a checkout.

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Don't ask me why

And as you can see I have decided to go back to my normal theme.  I hope you enjoyed this little stroll down spanish lane as much as I did.

But I felt like having half of my site in Spanish, so I activated this very interesting theme.

In more serious matters, I have been swamped at work, as well as on a sideproject of mine I will be unveiling soon.  Should be interesting when I launch my new venture... to say the least.

Until then, stay sharp and stay lean.