Bad examples of commit messages

As we all should know by now, VCSs (version control systems) are pretty useful. Not only that you can use it to share and edit files with a group of people, you also have a history which lets you follow changes to your files. For this you need to commit to the repository. For each [...]

Microblogging – Alternatives to twitter whales

Microblogging is “en vogue” now. Twitter started to attract many many users and has a big variety in tools around it. But twitter suffers from the exponential growth. Whale sightings (site outages are displayed as a whale on the site) are a common problem and features get disabled like the jabber interface. So the people [...]

Miro – What they did wrong

I am using Miro for quite some time now and I really like the possibilities it offers. But when you use it on a regular basis you’ll encounter certain features you’re missing. So I’d like to write this little “rant-ish” article ;-) My first objection is the performance. I’m using Miro mostly on a machine [...]

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Mylyn simplifies development

I’m a big fan of educational content that is related to software development. So I’ll post here some videos, podcasts or just links. Maybe someone finds them useful and/or gets educated on a certain topic. Todays topic is Mylyn and it’s integration in the Eclipse IDE. Bjorn Freeman-Benson explains the basic of Mylyn from a [...]