fingernails in oatmeal, The Unsightliness of Merge Commits - and a bit more about git commit/push/rebase and all that stuff around it. Also quite well translatable to Mercurial.
Archive 12. January 2010
Introducing Akka - Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors - nice overview of a quite interesting project in Scala (I think I've already linked to it) that provides STM, distributed Actors and the Erlang Supervisor Model for Scala. I should definitely check it out.
Linus on git pull/rebase - when to use rebase and when to use pull and when to make merge commits. Similarly applies to Mercurial, where the problems are similar. Not quite as much for darcs, which offers small advantages here through patch reordering.
Voigtlaender - The official homepage - Bessa III medium format camera - and then the manufacturer link with German text. 2000 Euros. Ouch.
Voigtlander Bessa III - the camera completely passed me by during my Photokina visit. I was probably too focused on digital. Voigtlander (ok, Cosina) and Fuji are bringing out a new 6x6 and 6x7 (switchable!) folding camera! Medium format! With all the bells and whistles you're used to from rangefinder cameras today - parallax correction (even with frame size adjustment!), distance measurement (optical only, no AF here), exposure measurement. Great. It makes you want to shoot roll film again (especially since 6x7 is really the ideal format). I have my old Fuji folding camera at home, but unfortunately it's defective in the bellows (no longer light-tight). However, the price is quite steep at over 2000 US$ ... (and the future security of roll film is rather questionable)