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I just read this article on distributed version control by Ben Collins-Sussman who is a lead developer behind Subversion. If I understand his arguments, he basically says that DVCS is better than centralized VCS, but you probably should not use one since 80% of all developers are too dumbfounded too understand VCS at all.

I am one of the pretentious, self-righteous and obnoxious fanboys of DVCS. And let me tell you this: the difference between using DVCS and Subversion is on par with the difference in programming in Ruby compared to Java. If you have made the switch you just do not want to go back.

I just got an email saying that my lightning talk proposal for Smidig2007 was accepted. I will speak about the experiences we have had at WeMind when trying to run a lean enterprise.

I am really looking forward to this conference, it is all lightning talks and open space.

Chatting over a beer with Ola Bini last year, we discussed the possibilities for JRuby. My dream was to run a Ruby IDE on top of JRuby to get a Smalltalk like environment, because Smalltalk is still the best programming environment I have ever used.

Now that 3rdRail, running on JRuby, is released, should I get my hopes up? Some people are actually very excited about it, but when Delphi and JBuilder are referred to as some sort of pinnacle of development it seriously makes me wonder.

I have absolutely no clue as to why David Heinemeier Hanson would hold any suspicious thoughts toward Sun. To me, given the big boys in the playground, they are the good guys. But reading it made me realize that I have not heard of IBM in a very, very long time.

Big Blue was quite quick to join the Java bandwagon, remember VisualAge for Java? But in the new world of dynamic languages IBM, apart from a few developerWorks articles, is not to be heard from.

Eurocard really wants you to close the window. (“Stäng fönstret” is swedish for “Close the window”)

In todays edition of all things gossipy in IT Sweden, aka Computer Sweden, swedish union SIF manages to make complete fools of themselves. They actually attach a physical CD to an ad supposedly containing their latest tv ads. Filmed by famous-in-Sweden director Felix Herngren no less - it says so on the cover.

SIF just spent a lot of money saying that they basically have no clue how modern communication is done (YouTube comes to mind) or that they from an environmental point of view do not mind some 50 000 cd’s thrown away.

Trying out the VimPress plugin, posting directly from Vim. Seems really sweet.

My name is Marcus Ahnve and I am an iPod addict.

My iPod died on me the other day. That is when I realized that I am an addict. I got physically cold and I immediately realized that my next subway ride would be iPod less. I cannot ride the subway without an iPod.

I had plans for this iPod. We were going to spend the fall and winter together, waiting for the iPhone to reach this dark corner of the world sometime next spring. Now I was left alone with no one to turn to.

I am currently on my way home from northern Dalecarlia, and I am making full use of the 3G card. I had received a couple of update mails from our central Mercurial repo, so I tried to do an ‘hg pull’, and expected it to take a while. Lo and behold, I got all changesets within 15 seconds! This says a lot about Mercurials protocol, as the reception was so-so; no surprise as we are driving here:

I accidentally found out that all ahnve.* domains where down today. It has been three years since I last renewed them, so I had forgotten all about it. The big problem was that the contact emails where being sent to an old address, so I never got the warnings I assume GoDaddy sent out.

According to Feedburner, some people have tried to reach the site and failed, sorry about that. It is all good now. But I got quite a scare as we are about to go on vacation, which will make me internetless.