Category: systems

Software without which I’d be hard-pressed to do my job

vim A sophisticated text editor with no GUI — everything is text-based, and all commands are issued from the keyboard. Frightening at first, and then so ridiculously efficient that nothing else makes sense.
Firefox Great in and of itself, and the ability to add extensions makes it priceless.
Firebug One of said Firefox extensions — as Marcus [...]

Getting non-developers on the subversion bandwagon

Marcus turned me on to subversion when I was working on a project earlier this year and wanted a way to revisit old versions of files. Setting up a subversion repository was easy, and while I did download the Tortoise GUI for Windows, I found the command line was pretty easy too.
A few months later, [...]