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Sunday, 24 August, 2008
Review: The One-Page Project Manager

I recently finished reading “The One-Page Project Manager”, by Clark Addison Campbell. What Clarke offers is a credible way to report a project’s status in a readable way, to managers, stakeholders and to provide feedback to the people working on a project. The one-page summary he suggests is not ideal for me, but has provided some [...]

Posted by sarah at 5:59 pm in: Planning
Wednesday, 13 August, 2008
Subversion ACL Permissions Explained

I recently did some digging in the Subversion source code to find out answers to precedence questions that remained after re-reading the documentation for Subversion’s per-directory permission files (popularly referred to as ACLs). At work, this helped us a lot with ensuring our new graphical UI for permissions (an excellent tool developed by Mark George) [...]

Posted by sarah at 10:23 am in: Documentation , Tools
Wednesday, 6 August, 2008
Sentimentality and Language

Mark and I have been discussing why languages become popular, and the quote we found: There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. - B. Stroustrup We moved from this to discussing how some languages are used well beyond the scope of the language. C++, perl, php, and [...]

Posted by sarah at 11:52 am in: Languages