http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog Opinions on CM, software development, and process automation from Longacre. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:09:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's some bash goodness (well, not really) to make 'less' a little bit more useful. less() {        local -a args         for arg        do                case "$arg" in                *:[[:digit:]]* ) ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/some-bash-goodness I was googling around the other day for compiler wisdom when I stumbled on a computer security "research" paper. Some one or ones were postulating some theoretical result about vulnerability to buffer overflow attacks in blah, blah, blah special case. I didn't read it, because that's not what I was ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/why-not-2-stacks In my copious spare time I'm working on a programming language called "Close." It's a C-like systems programming language targeted at the Parrot VM. Now, I'm not a compiler guy. But I don't have to be. Because Parrot comes with the Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT), a set of code that ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/things-left-unsaid Most of the readers of this blog are CM specialists. Whether you're a corporate CM librarian, or a build manager, you are focused on what the industry now calls "Application Lifecycle Management." That's an attempt to give a name to the collection of roles and functions we perform. It isn't ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/being-a-trust-specialist Recently I had the opportunity to develop a unit testing framework for MySQL scripts in mostly-pure SQL. While I can't share the code, I can certainly describe what we did, and why we did it. Hopefully it will be useful to you. My client was reorganizing a development team into an ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/unit-tests-for-mysql-scripts As you can probably tell, my three LCD monitors are all present and accounted for. And yeah, before you ask, it ROCKS! One very interesting "problem" is that none of the monitors I received shipped with a DVI cable. I have no idea why that is -- all of the ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/three I just spent a bunch of time out west (which, since I live on the east coast, isn't saying much) working with a client trying to do agile development. I have a kind of gentlemen's agreement with the client that I won't write anything that makes them look too bad. ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/getting-l-a-r-g-e-r Austin Hastings (that's me) will be speaking at two conferences coming up in October. Both presentations will be focusing on LDM. First, there's the Telelogic User Group Conference 2008, in Austin, Texas. That's obviously focused on Telelogic, and on CM Synergy and Telelogic Change, or whatever it's called this week. ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/two-conferences Release 1.4 of CruiseControl.NET includes a new Configuration Preprocessor. The great thing is that this provides a C preprocessor-like macro syntax, so projects can be made using relatively powerful templates. The bad thing is that it's new, and so there are some gotcha's laying around. I just found one: I ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/gotcha-xml-include-processing-in-cruisecontrolnet As a sort of follow-on to my post on doing Database CM Three Ways, I give you this presentation from Microsoft field rep Jim Blizzard. The presentation video goes over using the entire suite of Microsoft tools — go figure, right? But it is a good, solid introduction to ... http://www.longacre-scm.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/microsofts-take-on-database-change-management