AccessSVN 1.0.0 Released
Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Filed under news, subversion
For the past few months I’ve been product-managing a new Subversion management tool called AccessSVN, and today it’s been officially released.
If you support a large number of SVN users, and you need to manage permissions, this is the only tool on the market for you today. I highly recommend you get yourself a 30-day evaluation license and see for yourself at http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/access_svn.php. When you do, let me know what you think in the comment thread of this post.
The Wasserman Principle, Part I
Posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | Filed under build management, development, entropy, project management
There is this crazy theory I’ve been working on, on and off for probably over a year now. I’m calling it The Wasserman Principle. I got sidetracked for a while, but I’ve been wanting to finish this. In its present form it’s a rambling, unfinished document that needs some work. I’m going to start editing and revising from the top and release hopefully coherent bits and pieces as I go. So here it is, part 1 of TBD.
With every intended change to software, there is a probability that unintended, unforeseen or unrelated issues will be introduced, triggered or uncovered. These issues need to be addressed as part of the primary work at hand, or deferred. The probability of such issues arising is driven by a number of factors, including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Software that undergoes continuous change, such as having new functionality added to its original design, will eventually become more complex and can become disorganized as it grows, losing its original design structure. This is the textbook definition of Software Entropy.
- The tendency for a software development organization to be good at some things, and not as good at others. For example: a company may be good at building large applications, but not as good at supporting them (bug fixes, relatively minor enhancements; I’ve worked with and for a few consulting companies over the years that fit this bill), while another company may excel at smaller projects, but struggle with very large ones.
I need a hug
Posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | Filed under funny
Wagons West!
Posted on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 | Filed under events, news, travel
I’ll be at EclipseCon next week as part of the Polarion delegation. For the most part I’ll be behind the scenes, but I should get a chance to open my mouth in the Subversion BOF we’re hosting Monday night.
Subversion DIY write-through-proxy – Lock/Unlock
Posted on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 | Filed under subversion
Something I didn’t cover in my original description was how to handle the distribution of pessimistic locking. This is a bit more of an edge-case than some of the others. You need to make sure you understand your options and their side effects.
There is no clean way to replicate the lock. There are two ways to work around this: Read more
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