Archive for January 2006

Understanding Subversion Repositories

28 January 2006 / 6 Comments

Version control is one of the most important tool in the software developer toolbox. Being an intensive user of CVS, I decided to look at the next major versioning software. Last year I spend time looking and trying fully distributed system like Arch, Darcs or Monotone. These system are very interesting in their concept but [...]

First Intel Macs Available!

11 January 2006 / 4 Comments

Apple made it! Yesterday, at the MacWorld San Francisco, Steve Jobs proudly announced the availability of two Macs running Intel chips. The iMac G5 is replaced by an iMac running an IntelCore Duo — a dual core processor at 2.0Ghz — with the same configuration. This iMac is said to run twice as fast as [...]

Google On Demand Video Store

8 January 2006 / 0 Comments

Google just announced that they’re close to launch an on-demand video service. People will be able to buy and rent videos right from the web. They will partner with CBS and the NBA to deliver recent content. There are no much infos about the technical details. Apparently content will be encoded with Xvid and will [...]

Happy New Year 06

1 January 2006 / 0 Comments

May the coming year be rich in opportunities and great events! Best wishes for 2006!