Caffeinated Coder

I’m taking a needed break from implementing PCI compliance security features in order to bring you some of my favorite links from my weekend blog reading.

1. Version control with Subversion: so easy my wife can do it - There is no way that Jimmy Bogard didn’t get at least one night on the couch for this one (even with the ‘this is not my wife’ disclaimer that he added to the caveman picture). He’s right about the current Subversion toolset being dead simple though. After endless procrastination, I finally put my personal files under source control using Visual Subversion and TortoiseSVN and was amazed at how quick and easy it was to setup and use.
2. The 5 Most Annoying Programs on your PC - My favorite quote from this post: “Sure IE 7.0 is better than IE 6.0, but that is only in a ‘at least Mussolini made the trains run on time’ sort of way.” It has some spot-on rants against Outlook and Acrobat Reader for being so slow and bloated. It even inspired me to finally dump Acrobat Reader in favor of the much lighter weight FoxIt Reader. As a final F*** YOU, Acrobat insisted that I restart my computer after uninstalling it.
3. Is Product Splintering The Future Of Software? - Max Pool not only finally solves the mystery of why there are so many frickin’ brands of toothpaste at the grocery store, but also makes some interesting predictions about how software will be packaged and marketed in the future.

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