http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog Droplets of Yes and No Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:53:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is really awesome: A mercurial plugin that allows you to interact with git repositories It has apparently been around for a while, here's a blog post explaining how to use hg-git I see lots of stuff going on with git, there's a lot of projects using it and github is a ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/07/28/mercurial-talks-to-git-and-has-for-a-while-now/ One of my favorite features of OO languages like Java is the ability to overload a method, which is where you have several methods with the same name, but they take in different types in their arguments. I love the python language, but as I blogged about a while ago, not ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/07/21/python-function-overloading-via-multimethods/ My last post about metrics really got me thinking. Most GTD programs don't really talk about improvements from a dead stop, they are more concerned about changing your process. But altering how you implement your process can have a huge impact. Here is a suggestion on how to identify what to ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/07/13/how-to-identify-what-to-measure/ What you can measure, you can manage. I just watched a new video from Giles where he talks about how you can improve your programming productivity. Its a really good short video that hits the nail on the head. If you want to make a change, guessing about what to fix ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/07/12/metrics-the-kick-in-the-ass-that-is-the-key-to-productivity/ I'm a huge fan of SG-1. I own all 10 seasons on DVD. Even the last one, which *really* wasn't the greatest. When Stargate Universe was announced I was skeptical. I wasn't big on Stargate Atlantis, but I decided that the new series deserved a fair shake. So I watched the first half ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/06/16/stargate-universe-im-not-the-only-one-not-watching/ Today while working with swig I kept running into problems trying to get python to read the generated output files. The error I finally wound up with was: Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Abort trap Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Abort trap It turns out that on the Mac ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/05/29/linking-against-python-on-the-mac/ In a previous post I talked about trying to use Mercurial (hg) in a Subversion (svn) world. Its been almost 2 months, and I've learned quite a bit about hg and how to use it in a svn based environment. At the time it seemed like the obvious choice was to ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/04/24/subversion-and-mercurial-in-the-same-place/ Based on order numbers the day the iPad was made available for pre-order, several sites were speculating that Apple was selling about 50,000 iPads per hour. This reminded me of something I heard about back when the iPhone was just getting started: The German Tank Problem. Its basically a way of statistically ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/03/15/the-ipad-and-the-german-tank-problem/ So Giles Bowkett put up a pretty interesting post the other day. He put up the a post on what to do if you get fired, offering a story about how he has increased his charge rate over the years to despite getting fired. Its a little bit rambling at ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/03/11/is-giles-bowkett-full-of-shit-or-an-utter-genius/ DVCS is a popular topic these days on the internets, but for those of us who code for our day job find that more often than not we have to use the tried-and-true standard of something like CVS. Or if you are lucky, SVN. Personally I think SVN is pretty ... http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2010/02/25/being-subversive-with-subversion-mercurial-in-the-middle/