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I’ve spent most of the morning checking in changes to my application here at work. I’ve found a pretty good process that helps me makes sure that the comments that go into CVS represent what has changed in the code.

• Use CVL to identify changed files.
• Open the file in FileMerge to see the differences between versions.
• I have an OmniOutliner document for tracking change notes.
• I go through the diff in FileMerge, and put my comments in the outline under the filename.
• When done, I paste the comments from OmniOutliner into the comments field when checking in the code.

Wow. Garth Kidd has a hacked-together process worthy of Rube Goldberg that lets him record his ramblings to mp3, and have them posted to his weblog. Wow. Coooool.

Well, I am officially IM-less at work for the foreseeable future (and probably slightly beyond that). Our network guys are very security conscious and I don’t fault them for it. The AIM protocol has been closed on the firewall.

So, I’m back to email, which in true internet fashion, seems so… slow. ;-)

In the evenings from home, however, I’ll be on AIM, and probably #p2p-hackers as well. monkinetic or redmonk.

Linus Torvalds (if you care about this post you’ll know who he is) has finally started using BitKeeper, which according to my conversation with Wes was explicitly designed to his specifications as a source-control tool. He has historically avoided any sort of source-control (eg CVS), which is really ironic if you think about it [/.]

I wanted to get Python 2.2 on my Mac OS X box… so I installed Fink, which is a package management system for Darwin. The process is pretty easy - pick your components, Fink tells you what the dependencies are, and it downloads and installs it all for you. Not a surprise to most linux users, but this is new to me on Mac OS X.

Wow, it’s been a long time… the old Frontier community list ScriptMeridian is coming back to life. Yay!