follow the white rabbit http://blog.ftwr.co.uk Random commentary... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:29:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta3-20644 New York http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2012/04/21/new-york/ http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2012/04/21/new-york/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:29:27 +0000 westi http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2012/04/21/new-york/ Photos from a trip to New York including visits to Top of the Rock, Empire State Building, 9/11 Memorial, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Central Park and much more.

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The sunlight shining through the trees on a crisp winters day while we were out for a walk was lovely

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The view from the #wptybee boat trip

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$ svn help spelunk

spelunk (curse, showup, show): Output the content of specified files or URLs with the original revision and author information in-line ignoring white space changes and following movement of code between files.

Yes – I know I am dreaming ;)

]]> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/12/09/svn-spelunking/feed/ 0 My ethos for sharing code http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/12/08/my-ethos-for-sharing-code/ http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/12/08/my-ethos-for-sharing-code/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:11:08 +0000 westi http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/?p=581 A recent discussion around the way we write and share small helper scripts inside Automattic made me think a lot about why I do things the way I do and why I am against “authorship attribution” in shared code.

The views I have are strong and I think a good guiding principle for working collaboratively with your peers especially in Open Source projects:

I am very strongly against authorship attribution – it puts up a barrier to contribution by setting a subconscious ownership barrier around things.

I give you my code to do as you wish, I mold your code to do as I wish, I blame early and often when searching for bugs, and I expect you to have forgotten you wrote the tool I’m asking you about especially if you committed it yesterday!

What is your ethos and what do you think of mine?

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]]> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/11/17/autumn-path/feed/ 0 Festival of Transport 2011 – Saturday http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/08/28/festival-of-transport-2011-saturday/ http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/08/28/festival-of-transport-2011-saturday/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:04:38 +0000 westi http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/?p=551 Unipower timber truck and trailer Classic Commercial Vehicles Tow truck and Armoured Personnel Carrier Clouds ERF Tractor unit ]]> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/08/28/festival-of-transport-2011-saturday/feed/ 0 Tarn Hows http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/07/26/tarn-hows/ http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/07/26/tarn-hows/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:45:03 +0000 westi http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/?p=538 IMG_0497 - 2011-07-18 at 14-01-31 IMG_0519 - 2011-07-18 at 14-34-57 IMG_0516 - 2011-07-18 at 14-33-39 IMG_0505 - 2011-07-18 at 14-09-41 IMG_0507 - 2011-07-18 at 14-09-45 IMG_0522 - 2011-07-18 at 14-38-15 IMG_0531 - 2011-07-18 at 14-55-06 IMG_0509 - 2011-07-18 at 14-16-00 ]]> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2011/07/26/tarn-hows/feed/ 0