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Apache Subversion

February 19, 2010 at 1:00 AM · 0 comments

in Management, Operations, Programming, Software

A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join [...]

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I’ve always wondered how some popular open source and GPL projects keep going. Many times, they seem to implode upon themselves, whether due to internal or external forces imposing their undue influences upon the work at hand. The good ones realize that they are imploding and take measures to stop it from happening… and sometimes, [...]

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By now, gentle readers, you have probably seen the Javamancy mini post about the one-liner deletion for .svn files.
I really like Adam Bien. He seems like a nice guy, and I occasionally drop by his blog, on a lark, to read his stuff, which is often focused on Java and NetBeans, one of our favorite [...]

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Well, as I was mulling over the WordPress 2.8.1 code progressing its way through DevPal’s CM automata (yes, Javamancy really IS part of DevPal), I noticed that there was an entry from the WordPress guys (more specifically, Ryan) on their WordPress 2.8.1 release drop, which was officially back on July 9, 2009.
For even more reading [...]

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The Setup
“What should you do when that Ol’ Tester Magic grabs a hold of you?”
Dunno.
But what you can do is sit around at a nearby coffeehouse, drink your coffee, finish your coffee, get a refill and drink that one, and then declare to all the other crazies sitting around you that you’re going to set [...]

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