Note to self

I keep repeating the same stupid mistake over and over again: A friend needs a tool to accomplish $FOO, so I quickly hack together a simple BAR application that should do the trick. I test it and after deciding that it can't possibly break, my friend manages to break it in an instant. Now, the fun starts. I pretty much know that an exception must have been thrown somewhere. The only problem is accessing it. These days, users are just so incapable of running a program from the commandline, in order to copy and paste whatever got written to the console.

Do you know what's funny about the movie "Plan 9 from outer space"? It's so bad that you wouldn't want to pay money for it and therefore nobody would try to sell it to you anymore. Yet, you just have to see it. Good news is, the movie is, like many others of that era, in the public domain now. Bad news are that you need to download it and are likely to end up with something that will play fine on your PC, but not necessarily on a DVD player.

Ok, I have been struggling with version-control systems lately. More precisely with switching from svn to git. Subversion really was a pain in the butt. I spent more time on fixing my repositories and worrying about not introducing inconsistencies again, than on actual software development. This, added to the horrible workflow of branching and merging, as well as the security nightmare of granting repository access to others made svn totally unsuitable for my needs.