Looking for a new name for it instead of TweetTweet, what do you all say about Tweetldum? Seems to be the liked one so far.

The interesting part is that the link I discovered it through is in itself a link to boing boing, which is then referencing another site. Basically the news causes a chain reaction on the internet, since it ends up on high traffic places like boing boing and then just about everybody else starts mentioning or finding out about it like me.

I wonder what they attempt to accomplish since there’s a ton of alternate domain names across many countries, not to mention using the IP address directly, that you can use to still read all the material on Wikileaks. They couldn’t get an injunction on the hosting since I believe it’s hosted outside of the US. Wikileaks was also given almost no warning, and didn’t even have representation in the hearing.

So now that they’ve censored it, they probably just increased the visibility of the site instead of what they intended. And I just found some excellent evidence of that: Graph of blog posts mentioning ‘wikileaks’ in past 90 days

UPDATE: Looks like it probably hit just about every major news site, it was on digg and slashdot, which both have the readership to destroy a web server.

So if you follow my shared items, use my delicious feed instead, here:

Web: http://del.icio.us/jfro/shared
RSS: http://del.icio.us/rss/jfro/shared

If you really want to see everything I jam into delicious, use my regular feed at http://del.icio.us/rss/jfro

I always found the starting of a new project with subversion to be a bit confusing and awkward. It involved setting up a repository if there isn’t one, or a new folder in an existing, Importing the project somewhere into the repository, Finally checking out a fresh working copy of the project, moving aside your previous copy of it. There may be some better way that doesn’t involve shuffling your old pre-svn copy out of the way, but its still kinda clunky. From then on it’s not really that bad though.

One of the first things I noticed which was different, but that I actually like, is that by default you have to explicitly tell git what you’re going to commit. You go though and add any new or modified files that you want to be part of the commit. I like this since very often I find myself committing bits and pieces of a project, but not committing every modification I’ve made. In subversion I either have to do separate commits, or specify each thing after ’svn commit’ which is not as elegant as actually marking items for a commit like the approach git seems to take. It agrees with my method of going through a lot of changes and approving certain changes for actual committing.

There’s also some other benefits that I have yet to dive into beyond reading about, but one of the other strengths of git that people talk about, which is branching. Git allows branching in such a simple efficient way that you can easily branch off and experiment with stuff, easily coming back to your stable branch, merging anything that might have been a success. I’ve always found the procedure for branching in subversion to be a bit daunting, git’s in comparison is trivial. Creating a branch in git is literally a single command, making it much more attractive to allow you to mess around, track changes, but easily keep things cleanly organized. This I will definitely have to experiment to see if it really is as awesome as it looks.

I’d definitely recommend giving git a serious look, specially for anybody that isn’t already invested in a particular versioning system. It seems to be a decent fit for an independent developer like myself, and even sounds like it would work well at work if we weren’t already heavily using subversion. Since my personal projects only have me working on them, it works well for me to get going quickly with tracking changes, not having to do the bit lengthier setup that seems to come with subversion.

Check out the Git Tutorial to get a good feel of how git works. See if it may appeal to your way of doing things.

WTF? I had this happen before, forget what fixed it. It’s been restarted, now let’s see if this post helps

I think the big thing is actually the lack of interuption, sometimes you’re not so happy to have the sparkle software update window popping up in your face unexpected. This will be a savior for background applications like Hazel which is a pretty cool background system for organizing files.

I look forward to seeing this new iteration of Sparkle from Andy Matuschak come into fruition

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Flickr interface is pretty cool, check it out!

Spiffy, next up, blogging about Magento