Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Ubiquitous tracking (and versioning)

Sometimes I wish that the whole bloody filesystem was capable of the sort of tracking that a version control system does. E.g. today I am ...

One-liners considered dangerous

It is nice to come up with one-liners. E.g. today I was looking for a one-liner hg post-clone hook. But... even when you can find a one-l...

Thursday, June 21, 2012

recursive make can break parallel make -j

Recursive make is dangerously stupid. There are better tools, but not everyone has realized. In a system using recursive make, two rules ...

how-can-mercurial-or-any-other-dvcs-recognize-partially-overlapped-histories

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11146096/how-can-mercurial-or-any-other-dvcs-recognize-partially-overlapped-histories Q: is there any...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Knobs should be left to right - why (some) getopts are broken

There are two main styles of command line argument or options parsers - which my subculture calls "knobs". My preference is to p...

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Monolithics and Makefiles

I think that one of the reasons why some people write big monolithic programs with too many classes and functions and just plain stuff in th...

Multihomed workspaces and repos

I often find myself wanting a "multihiomed" workspace or repo: E.g. a workspace where I push to one or more places regularly. ...

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