Archive for July, 2010

>>2010-07-10>> Mercurial: Branching, Cloning and Revisions, oh my! Part Three 

This is the third article in a series where I discuss how I dealt with the challenge of maintaining two separate but similar web sites in source control. This kind of scenario doesn’t really follow the Version->Maintenance->Next Version linear development process. Instead, it has common code and separate themes.
In article one, I talked about [...]

>>2010-07-06>> Vim Favorite Tips #1 — Copy Last Command Into Clipboard 

I use Vim for pretty much everything these days.  So I’ve decided to start a “tips” category for my favorite Vim tricks.   Here’s a question for you:  how can you paste into the command buffer?  And more importantly, how can you copy the command buffer to the clipboard?

>>2010-07-04>> Mercurial: Branching, Cloning and Revisions, oh my! Part Two 

In a previous article, I discussed with you how I might deal with the challenge of maintaining two separate but similar web sites in a Mercurial source control system. These sites don’t really follow the Version->Maintenance->Next Version linear development process. Instead, they have common code and separate themes. I mentioned three options [...]

>>2010-07-01>> Accurev’s Only Supports Two Year Old Ubuntu Releases 

Arggh!  Accurev!  Your only support for Ubuntu is for Hardy and earlier?  What’s up with that?  In their defense, Accurev actually runs on 32-bit versions of Lucid…  But you’ll find it will die without an error on 64-bit versions of the OS… The only way around it is to install a 32-bit version of Lucid.  [...]