Link collection about version control systems

Recently I was talking about decentralized version control systems in a german podcast show. For preparing myself I read a lot of articles on that matter and I thought it would be useful for others to share the URLs I stumbled upon. Googles Analysis of Git and Mercurial (Summer 2008) Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax […]

rm -rf /opt

I’m a heavy macports user. I’ve installed tons of ports and for a while now, I was under the impression that macports matured enough to stop worrying about potential dependency nightmares. Basically macports already felt like the FreeBSD ports collection. Sure, there are b0rken portfiles now and then but thats ok. As I said – […]

Bogosort in ruby

Yesterday, I stumbled across the Bogosort sorting algorithm. The example implementations looked horrible so I tried to implement it in a short and readable way, in Ruby of course. Here is my first and only attempt of a Ruby Bogosort. # Use: ruby bogosort.rb a b c def sorted for i in (0..$array.length-2) return false […]