Source Code Management (SCM) is one of those things that computer scientists and geeks love to talk about, and I think I've just worked out why! When you get a new SCM tool working, and the coin drops - it's awesome! It's like the most impressive Hello World ever. Previously I've used Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which is the only time I've actively collaborated on a software project, and when I started my PhD I used Subversion. I'm a follower of fashion when it comes to SCMs, and as you've probably seen, Git has been spotted all over the internet. So I thought I'd investigate, and this is what I've discovered after using it for around 3 months.

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OmniGroup's software package, OmniGraffle 4 is hands down the best application ever! When it comes to creating figures that is. Here's why: read more...

Coda is a pretty good application for web development, and for a version 1.0 bit of software it's also fairly polished. However it's not excellent, and there are a couple of quirks which annoy me enough to write this:

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Now that I have background monitor working, updating a background image every 60 seconds (a default value), I want to start monitoring the foreground. For these two processes to work at the same time I want to use threads for each one, using the threading module in Python. read more...