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Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
Looks like the hard work is paying off

The company I work for (CVSDude which was renamed to Codesion) has now been aquired by CollabNet, creators of Subversion. For me this is awesome news, and says the work I’ve been doing to get more people onto source control is paying off. For my independence as a blogger, you’ll have to judge for yourself. [...]

Posted by sarah at 8:16 am in: Meta
Tuesday, 12 December, 2006
Server Explosions

Developing Programmers has been down for a while, due to a power supply “exploding” (figuratively). “Trouble” has migrated the whole system to another machine in another country and it’s now up and running again! Yay! The new server location should be faster for US visitors; and sadly a bit slower for readers in Australia.

Posted by sarah at 5:32 am in: Meta , Uncategorized
Tuesday, 28 November, 2006
A New Job

I have just accepted a new job at CVSDude.com! CVSDude offers online services for developers, such as revision control, bug tracking, documentation wikis, etc. This means I will be developing and supporting software that helps people to carry out some of the practices that I originally set up this site to promote. It’s a very [...]

Posted by sarah at 8:08 pm in: Employment , Meta
Tuesday, 27 June, 2006
Moving House

Between a major work deadline (on Wednesday) and a house move (all week) I haven’t had as much time as I’d like for writing. Rest assured I’ve been doing research (meetings, emailing questions, and even a couple of interviews) for a few articles, including: Job interviews: Don’t Panic! Consultants: Are they really consulted or just [...]

Posted by sarah at 8:14 pm in: Meta , Uncategorized
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006
Hungry for New Libs

I’ve taken down the polling system since the new (still experimental) forums have niftier polls. The results of the last poll were interesting — it looks like a lot of readers of this site write their own libraries: Do you find out about new libraries? Yes, I always check what’s new: 33% (4 votes) I [...]

Posted by sarah at 9:12 pm in: Libraries , Meta