Month: September 2011

  • Git… enough!

    When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a software user to disparage a thoroughly hostile DVCS, there is no recourse but to blog about it. Thus, software diplomacy has failed, and we must face the fact that I irredeemably hate git. To prove this, let these facts be submitted to a…

  • Sage Days 30

    I wrote the narrative below a while ago, but I never got around to publishing it until now. I was present at Sage Days 30, a conference for Sage developers and users which took place in Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Wolfville, Nova Scotia I first need to make some remarks about the trip…

  • Code sprint

    Welcome to the sprint! Here is how it should proceed: From this list, pick an interesting function that you understand how it should work. Announce in #octave that you want to work on this function and also edit the wiki to say the same. Write a few simple tests for what you think the function…