Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

Subversion 1.2 Release Candicate 1 has been released. According to the release notes, there's some really interesting new stuff. E.g. a locking feature (a.k.a. reserved checkouts), a faster xdelta binary-differencing algorithm (instead of vdelta), FSFS repositories are now the default, and the usual bugfixes.

Regarding the xdelta: dumping and reloading your repositories will convert them to xdelta and make them a bit larger, but will also make operations such as svn co, svn up and svn diff a lot faster, which is great.

(via Ron Bieber)

Jonathan Chaffer has written a very interesting article which explains how the CMS Drupal (which powers this site, btw.) uses many OOP principles and Design Patterns without using PHP's class keyword. It's written purely procedural, while still using the best features the OOP world has to offer.

The main message IHMO is this: OOP != classes.

(via Boris Mann, Marc Canter and drupal.org)

Mattis Manzel has brought to my attention the so-called WikiNode project. The basic idea is that every wiki should have a page called WikiNode, which describes what the wiki is about and provides links to the WikiNode pages of related wikis.
I have added a WikiNode page to both of my wikis, Crazy Hacks and Unmaintained Free Software (besides other new stuff such as a forum, image license templates and more).

Today's Flickr day. I just stumbled over The Great Flickr Tools Collection, a follow-up to the popular and quite helpful Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection article.
This one introduces a huge list of Flickr-related web services and scripts for using and abusing Flickr in several ways.

Friday Java Jumble on The Daily WTF — the guy who wrote this code would have pretty good chances to win a write-patently-stupid-code contest. Have a look.

(via /dev/blog)