I’m on a bit of a productivity kick lately. I’m trying to listen to the little voice in my head that speaks up when I’m doing something incredibly tedious and error-prone, and could clearly be automated. Some people would say that spending 3 hours cranking out a script that might save you at most a […]

If you’re like me, you take great comfort in the presence of the Terminal in Mac OS X. I love a great GUI, but the fact is that many tasks on the Mac are still best accomplished from the behind the wheel of a shiny new pseudo-tty. Usually I get the need for command-line access […]

Editorial note: This entry describes at length the process I went through to achieve the “perfect” script for determining and inserting the Subversion revision number into my builds. If you’d rather skip the details and jump to the copy/pasteable script, click here. Around the time I first tried Subversion, I noticed an interesting mailing list […]

Not too long ago I was convinced to switch to Subversion for one of my most active projects. Unlike some folks, I didn’t run to Subversion with CVS blood on my fingers, but it was nonetheless a CVS nuisance that finally pushed me over the edge. I don’t know what happened to CVS in Tiger, […]