1, 2, 3, … go!

44.8972621492128678986995208761…. to go

If we are to believe what BBC says, anyway

Translations of technical documentation from English to Greek are a relatively difficult task. It takes a certain level of attention to detail and a fairly good command of both languages. Then there is the minor issue of keeping the translations up to date with their English counterparts.

Updating translations (the ...

Bryan W Taylor posted a very intriguing writeup a bit earlier, titled: “The Need for Distributed Version Control in the Enterprise“.

There are a few points of the article that seem a bit controversial. For instance, I am not sure I totally agree with the comments abouts “feature scoped” development ...

A tiny Lisp script, noticed first in a recent post in comp.lang.lisp and then ported to SBCL:

    % cat ~/bin/iota
    #!/usr/local/bin/sbcl --script
    (defun iota (count &optional (start 0) (step 1))
      "Build a list of `count' numbers, starting from `start' andincrementing by `step' between
      successive elements ...

The FreeBSD 7.1 release is out!

Ken Smith has posted the official email announcement of 7.1-RELEASE earlier today:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-January/001229.html

This is a minor release in the 7.X branch of FreeBSD development, but it includes many bug fixes, improvements ...

The FreeBSD 7.2 release is out!

Ken Smith has posted the official email announcement of 7.2-RELEASE earlier today:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-May/001253.html

This is the third minor release in the 7.X branch of FreeBSD development, and it includes many bug fixes ...

Looking at the search terms that people used to reach this weblog, I noticed that one of the most popular posts of all time is the Contributing to FreeBSD post of Feb 2009.

This is fantastic! I didn’t realize readers of this weblog would like the particular post so ...

From: keramida

Subject: Athens Digital Week 2008

References: http://www.athensdigitalweek.gr/

Everything is ready, so I’m going to leave for Athens to attend the “Athens Digital Week 2008” event tomorrow. Two short presentations have been prepared, and sent to the organizers. I am not sure if we will ...

When using a distributed SCM, it is often very useful to be able to automatically sync a “reference” workspace with a remote, “parent” workspace. This way, even when offline, a local clone of the parent workspace is available.

Having a local clone of the “reference tree” is useful in many ...