I recently discovered bitbucket.org which is a polished hosting platform for mercurial. It is pretty much like github.com but much smaller. I really like the idea and the implementation of having a cooperative platform which allows you to watch and fork projects. So that’s why I moved my hgbookmarks implementation from freehg.org over to bitbucket.org [...]
Again, git vs. SVN. Last time, it was big win for git. And guess what, git will strike again.
I mean nobody is perfect (expect Linus, but there is just one – as he mentioned once), so we actually fail writing bugfree code. Therefore we end up sitting in front of a huge code base trying [...]
I used git for the last 6 month in a big project. The project itself is not maintained
in git but in subversion as this is what developers know and what project leaders like to use
for several reasons.
In fact it’s not a bad idea to actually use subversion as version control system, particularly if
the developer [...]
Approaching the 5.3 release of PHP, a lot of features were introduced
and discussed at the internals mailinglist. This includes closures, traits
and various other patches. Some of these patches are on hold and not yet
applied. Therefore only a few people can take a look at the new features. Particularly because they scare patching PHP themselves or [...]