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I’ve been hearing a lot recently about “git vs svn”, as though one had to replace the other. Recently I started reading up on Git for work, and trying it out on a couple of personal projects. It uses a very different development model; I think its not so much a question of “which is [...]

A profiler is a tool that tells you where your program is spending its time. This is usually a breakdown by function, block and/or line of code.

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) [...]

I recently picked up a copy of Mike Gunderloy’s book, “Coder To Developer”. The title grabbed me right away because it’s exactly what this site is about! Reading it in fragments of time between work and home commitments, I was actually excited to try things after reading each chapter. The bulk of the book is [...]

Chances are most professional programmers will have to deal with software internationalization at some stage in their careers. Internationalization and localization of software are two sides of the same thing: Localizing an application is customizing it’s language, currency, sort orders, measurement systems, and more for a particular group’s needs. Typically this group is “people of a particular country” but other [...]