The Creative Commons licene engine has gone through several iterations, the most recent being a Zope 3 / Grok application. This has actually been a great implementation for us1, but since the day it was deployed there’s been a warning in README.txt:
If you get a UnicodeDecodeError from the cc.engine (you’ll see this if it’s
running in [...]
In an attempt to prevent additional git (or maybe just git-svn?) induced PTSD, Asheesh kindly created a git phrasebook. If you, too, are a Subversion deserter and want to figure out how the whole branching thing works in git, this may be useful to you.
Someday I’ll write up my thoughts on distributed [...]
We use Subversion for version control at work. We try to version control everything: code, content, graphics, site configuration. Everything. This does wonders for our sanity, but we can do more. Recently (n < 6 months)) we’ve started doing something we should have done from Day 1: develop in one tree, [...]
I’m not sure that Java applets are even relevant to software development today, but this interview (via Ajaxian) regarding the rewritten Java browser plugin caught my attention:
Java Applets Reborn from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.
So the most interesting things (to me):
The plugin itself is mostly written in Java. I love these sort of recursive language [...]
Starting yesterday afternoon I found that I couldn’t commit code to Creative Commons’ Subversion repository at Sourceforge. “Just another intermittent outage,” I thought. I even took a look at the site status page, saw that Subversion was “online” and figured it’d be resolved by the morning.
Well this morning it’s still down, so I [...]
