I’m very pleased that I can now finally lift the curtain and show what I’ve been spending most of my time working at iola on.
It’s been a long ride, but now the alpha release is finally ready for public consumption 🙂
Month: November 2007
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The problem with depending on a server
So here at iola we use subversion internally. It’s ridiculus that the following use case doesn’t work:
<do stuff>
svn commit
<do stuff>
svn commit
<I forgot what I had written in last commit log>
svn log (local copy out of date, only shows revision before the first commit)
svn update
svn: Working copy ‘.’ locked
svn: run ‘svn cleanup’ to remove locks (type ‘svn help cleanup’ for details)
Owned 🙁
Finally got through the mighty Practical Common Lisp tome. The style of the book is written in a nice mix of theory and practice (with relevant and good examples). My friend Lau asked me why on earth I would want to read a book on Lisp? A fair question since Lisp is really old, actually measured in computer time it might even be called ancient. But I had two main motivations for reading the book, to become a better programmer and secondly to better understand new language features introduced in languages like Boo and C#. Just look at the new LINQ features in C# 3.0 and specifically this video.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interesting in a good programming book.
Best explaination I have found yet for the Dalvik VM for Android.
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Ohh the irony
Two microsoft licenses approved as open source. It had to happen, open beats closed in the long run.