taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

Code: Rod writes: ‘I have had a bunch of fun today, gleefully playing with a new source-control package. I truly lead a sad life.’

I’d guess that was our fault, moving SpamAssassin CVS to subversion at apache.org ;) Happy to oblige, Rod!

If I wasn’t so jet-lagged (still!), suffering from a cold, and busy with the day job, I’d be having that fun myself; SVN is very, very, very nice from what little I can tell so far. Only time will tell if it can beat the lovely Perforce, though, the virtues of which I have extolled on many occasions (earning myself a freebie T-shirt in the process, payola!).

But yeah, SVN looks really cool.

Tags: bunch, code, cvs, fault, fun, life, package, spamassassin, subversion, svn, today

Software: I’m a huge fan of Perforce, the best SCM system I’ve ever used; it thoroughly kicks the ass of ClearCase, CVS, RCS et al.

I’m also a fan of Half-Life, one of the few first-person-shooter games on the PC platform to provide a reasonably good plotline.

However, until now, they’ve remained separate; how do you reconcile source-code management and blasting alien invaders? Presenting P4HL:

Does SCM ever start to seem flat and two-dimensional? Have you ever felt the urge to browse depot history while beating up on your friends with a crowbar? Then check out P4HL, a fully 3D depot browsing interface built on the Half-Life engine.

Tags: clearcase, cvs, depot, fan, half, life, perforce, rcs, scm, software, system

I found a load of snaps from my Casio Watch Camera that I hadn’t uploaded yet. I’d uploaded them, but forgot to add them to CVS ;) Here’s a nice one — a ca. 19th century hygrometer made in the Mason family’s opticians shop in Essex Bridge, Dublin, found in the museum at Collins Barracks:

Tags: camera, casio, century, cvs, family, hygrometer, load, mason, shop, watch