Category: Articles

Digging Myself Out of the Hole Called RSS

I’ve always been a heavy reader, online and offline but this weekend I finally noticed the hole I dug myself into. I was taking in more information that I could get through and I was falling behind. I resolved then to start taking action to dig myself back out by following 3 simple steps: 1. …

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Redmine Timesheet plugin

I’m happy to announce I am releasing my first Redmine plugin, Redmine Timesheet. I’m releasing it under the GNU GPL v2 Purpose This is a plugin to show timelogs across all projects in a Redmine install. I use it for: How long did I work today? (timelogs for today) How much of my time is …

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Interesting Links #1

I’ve been reading up a lot on different ways to manage code using SCM systems because my current ones take way to long to do anything advanced. How to use Piston to ease your upgrades – Piston looks like an easy way to work with upstream svn repositories. Currently, I do a huge hack of …

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New blog sections and feeds

In order to organize my articles, I split my blog into four sections now: Home – all articles from Business and Tech Business – articles about running my business and freelancing Tech – articles about technology and software development Link Blog – posts with links to content I come across that I found interesting and …

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Subversion blame

While reading about git I found a feature of Subversion that I never used. It’s called svn blame and will show each line of a file with information about who last changed that line and in what revision. Running svn blame vendor/plugins/project_scores_plugin/init.rb for one of my Redmine plugins shows this: 2 edavis # Redmine sample …

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