Tonight, I was discussing with some guys to re-license a package I wrote some time ago, JDBM. It’s an interesting little Java package, used by some other open source projects, and for some reason I slapped a home-made custom license on it.
I think I’m getting really old - I have been discussing open source licensing […]

In Test Driven Development - using MS Excel and VBA, Clarke Ching presents a hands-on workshop to explain TDD using nothing more than a spreadsheet and some simple-to-understand VisualBasic for Applications code.
If you have non-technical or semi-technical people that need convincing about the value(s) of TDD, this might just be what you need. I think […]

We’re currently evaluating candidates for replacing CVS as a lot of shops are doing. That’s not an easy job - Subversion has horrible merging support, Arch often makes simple things hard (so needs padding in shell scripts, probably), and I’m not sure that I want Darcs because I’m not sure that I can patch a […]