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 ...

The topic of using a “BSD make” on other systems seems to pop up now and then. I haven’t really finished the automake-based ‘port’ of FreeBSD make that I started some time ago, but seeing that others are interested too is a bit nice. A recent post by Chuck ...

References: http://stsimb.irc.gr/2008/04/23/i-type/

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I “cheated” in a way, because I went through the test 10 times, deleted the worst and best case numbers, and then averaged the rest of the results… but that was fun :)

Από το blog του adamo, ένα link οδηγεί στο πολύ ενδιαφέρον post Μάνα blogger.

Δε χρειάζονται σχόλια από μένα. Το digitalbox.gr έχει γράψει με πολύ ωραίο, εύσχημο και σοβαρό τρόπο, με ακρίβεια και σαφήνεια, το 99.999% της άποψης που έχω κι εγώ για όλη τη «φασαρία περί blogs».

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 ...

How fast can you push changesets to your colleagues if you are using a client-server based SCM?

Mercurial (which is a distributed SCM), when changes are pushed over an NFS-shared filesystem, can push 24 changes, with 81 patches, affecting 54 files, in less than 0.3 sec:

    gker@freya ...

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 ...