Archive for August 31st, 2006

The joys of open source

Sometimes one wonders if release control should be beaten into some people with a stick. Drupal 4.7.3 breaks the MoveableType interface. Bless them. At least I’m not the only one being driven mad. That last link has a typical example of ‘we-don’t-care’ when someone replies with a link to the diff file. Yes, these people [...]

Running parallel

At work we use the world’s worst version control system (VCS). Actually I kid – we’re not using Microsoft SourceSafe. As previously mentioned we’re using MKS, which lacks Mac support. So I went out and purchased a copy of Parallels and sent up Ubuntu. This proved to be harder than was expected. Firstly, because the [...]