Wednesday, 25 September 2013

A Git workflow at EI

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Electric Imp have used Git from the very beginning of the company, and in that time we’ve evolved what I at least reckon is a useful way of...
Saturday, 24 August 2013

Bow-shaped branches: using vendor branches in Git

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LATER EDIT: the method described here turned out not to scale very well for large vendored libraries with lots of changes. If yo...
Sunday, 2 June 2013

Bow-shaped branches: a Git workflow

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Distributed version control systems, and Git in particular, have for all practical purposes wiped out CVS, Subversion and similar systems. ...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Giving An FTDI Serial Port A Persistent Device Node

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There are plenty of perfectly good reasons why one might have several FTDI USB-to-serial adaptors attached to the same PC at the same time...
Saturday, 9 April 2011

The Failure Mode Of Agile Development

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Here’s the “traditional” waterfall model of software development: +------------+------------+------------+ | Design | Implement | Te...
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Saturday, 22 January 2011

Is “Factory Method” An Anti-Pattern?

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Let’s take another look at this version of the “two implementations, one interface” code from that one about portability : // Event.h v8 c...
Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Quirking a Mac Pro into AHCI mode

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The Apple Mac Pro (2006 model) has an Intel ESB2 south-bridge, which includes the SATA controller. Under MacOS, this SATA controller is d...