Because I accidentally left comments off on my original Git post, I got a number of responses by email, which I appreciate very much. I’d like to summarise them here and clarify some of my original comments.
Firstly, I didn’t intend the phrase “nerdiest of SCM nerds” to be in any way an insult.
On Being [...]
I had a little trouble getting the `git-svn` command working on my Mac. For future Google reference, here’s how I did it:
Firstly, install Subversion (currently 1.4.4) from downloads.open.collab.net - this version is compiled with all the language bindings, so you don’t have to mess about with building SWIG by yourself. The `git-svn` integration depends [...]
Didn’t mean to turn comments off on that last post so, if you had a comment to make, please go ahead.
Update: Oh, looking at my email, I see there was a lot of response. If anyone doesn’t want me to summarise their comments in a future blog post, please let me know by Monday.
Subversion was, until yesterday, the only SCM system that I understood well enough to use. Today, I feel I can add Git to that list. The disclaimer on that which follows is that it’s mostly an understanding gained from reading documentation. Git appears to have an excellent documentation set but, if those documents mislead [...]
There are very few specific instructions I can remember being given during my Computer Science course at University. However, one stands out and has stayed with me in the years since:
“Any amount of computation is worth it, to avoid having to draw to the screen.”
It’s not an exact quote, and my attribution to Dr. [...]
FlickrExport is a pretty mature project now. Lots of things in the code that I once wasn’t sure would last are now solid, tested and reliable. However, with age, software becomes interdependent and thus fragile. Some of the work I’ve been doing on FlickrExport 3 has been to formalise the relationships between various classes.
One [...]
I’ve been working on FlickrExport 3 for a couple of weeks now and one of the things I started off doing was building tools to make testing easier and more predictable.
Unit testing using Xcode’s built-in framework remains a pain in the buttocks. Given the large amount of asynchronous NSURLConnection code used in FlickrExport, all the [...]
Wil Shipley made the point about the iPhone SDK as only he can, and Daniel Jalkut summarises Wil in a way that sums it up for me:
Wil Shipley On iPhone’s “SDK”: “
If I wanted to program in a crappy language just so I could get more customers, I’d switch to Windows, not stinking JavaScript.
Pretty much [...]
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