Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams

If we have several agile development teams working on the same codebase, how do we minimize the risk of stumbling over each other? How do we ensure that there always is a clean, releasable version at the end of each iteration?

http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-version-control

New PUTTY!

After 4 years there's a new release of the infamous SSH-client: Putty 0.61 is out

Grab your copy here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Lazy SVN commits

You're a programmer and therefor lazy. You also hate the mandatory commit messages for SVN. Well lucky for you there are a lot of people who feel the same way.
So let's make live a little less boring by automating the commit messages. Let me know after how many commits somebody caught you with this automated commit messages generator.

svn ci -m "`curl -s 'http://whatthecommit.com/' grep '<p>' cut -c4-`"

Shoo flash

I found this excellent article from a decade ago about not using flash _at all_. While we are anticipating on the standard of html in which, hopefully, flash is banned forever, flash designers keep making the same mistakes still.

Link: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

Kill Comic Sans

One of the worst inventions ever is Comic Sans. Lucky I don't stand alone, a lot of websites are dedicated to erase Comic Sans from existence, here's at least one: http://www.agencyfusion.com/intro/index2.html

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/verity_stob_comic_sans/

When something seriously goes wrong

Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=140992

PHP Sockets

You want to create a server and a client that live and thrive in a networked environment. With PHP you can make that happen with sockets. Checkout: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Socket-Programming-With-PHP/ for the basics.

From: Roy T. Fielding

I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

Source: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
More: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm