Monthly Archives: June 2008

Google News Algorithms Get It Wrong

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Alistair

Google News is a great service, probably the single best feature of Google News is that it aggregates news stories from numerous sources into one place and then condenses them, so as a user you don’t need to be bothered … Continue reading →

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Source Control Commit Visualisation

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Alistair

Software development relies on source control management software such as CVS, Subversion, SourceSafe, Bitkeeper, Mercurial, Git and the like to track and manage the changes in the source code over time. As a project progresses, developers come and go, contractors … Continue reading →

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Automattic Account Management

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Alistair

Automattic, the fine folk behind the WordPress blogging engine, wordpress.com and Akismet have started merging accounts between wordpress.com and Gravatar. Toward the start of 2006, I signed up for an account with wordpress.com and for obvious reasons, I’ve never needed … Continue reading →

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