Tag Archives: bzr

Bazaar: DVCS for Dummies

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I like Bazaar (bzr). It doesn’t make me popular in the Mercurial-centric Pythonosphere. It doesn’t make me a 1337 über hacker like git would. However, it does meet the most important criteria: It just works for me. Now for the … Continue reading →

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Why not Subversion + DVCS of Choice?

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Michael Schurter

A follow-up to my last post on DVCSes… Gnomers have been discussing DVCSes a lot lately, and at least one seems to prefer bzr as the repository format and git as the protocol it speaks. If this sounds like madness … Continue reading →

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Time to Learn Git?

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Update: Doh! Sorry for flooding everyone’s feed readers with my epic post. Evidently WordPress ignored my “more” tag. I think I ran into this problem before… Update 2: Retracted the meaningless Google Trends point. Thanks to commenters for pointing out … Continue reading →

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Hzzah: AJAX Searching, Grouped Searches, and Version Numbers

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Michael Schurter

AJAX Searching Thanks to jQuery and the jQuery History plugin, searching is now done via AJAX but it doesn’t break your back and forward buttons. The navigation callback in JavaScript ought to be more of a proper state machine, but … Continue reading →

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Introducing Hzzah!

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Michael Schurter

from the I-can-haz-a-search-engine department… Update: Sorry about the tacky donate link all. I tried to hide it from feed readers with WordPress’s <!–more> feature, but evidently that doesn’t apply to feeds. When it comes to market share, Google is to … Continue reading →

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Simple WordPress Upgrade Using Subversion

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Michael Schurter

I’ve been using subversion to update WordPress for a few minor revisions now. I simply followed the 2.2 branch and ran… svn up …to update my code. Today I ran… svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.3 …followed by visiting the upgrade script page … Continue reading →

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