Reality Loop

August 29, 2011
From SVN to TFS: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

For my recent MSDN TechTalk I did some research how to migrate a source control repository from SVN to TFS. While I am not advocating this migration, here are the options:The Good:.Currently you have a choice of three tools:svn2tfs: svn2tfs is a s...
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August 25, 2011
Is there any hope for other DVCS in the Git imperium?

As we are entering the era of language wars on the JVM there is another war looming on the horizon...This new war is coming out of the realm of distributed version control systems:Git seems to have a nearly undisputed imperium in this realm and re...
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August 23, 2011
Agile in the real world (construction analogy again)

Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.–Niels Bohr There is a common claim that we should learn more from classical engineering disciplines like civil engineering. According to that claim the IT industry would be a better place if we ...
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August 17, 2011
Tidbit: Big Data

The amounts of data that Twitter handles is astonishing:12 TB per day (= 4 PB per year) ... this equals 17'000 CDs per day... this equals 9 mio floppy disks per day ( = 26.5 miles high)And the amount is doubling multiple times a year.... this is ...
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August 15, 2011
Test Driven: It is the mindset not the tool!

It is amazing to realize how old the notion of Test Driven Development (TDD) really is. Here are two quotes, that are older than I am, describing the ideas behind TDD :Report of the NATO Software Engineering Conference 1968:A software system can b...
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