Archive 23. June 2011

A Visit to the Zoo

Juliana didn't know our zoo yet, so we went there today (it's very close to our apartment). A cozy afternoon. Many changes in the zoo that I hadn't seen yet either.

The Online Photographer: The Pentax Q System. Pentax jumps into the pool of small system cameras, but adds a twist: just as they once responded to the half-frame format with an 110 cassette system camera, they now deliver a compact system camera. Mini chip with interchangeable optics - and according to the lineup of lenses that will be available at launch, it's a bit more geared towards a fun camera. However, the 110 Pentax was also, on the one hand, a fun camera, but on the other hand, quite serious for some purposes - because at Pentax, even the fun is well crafted. Therefore, the Q-System could well be interesting for one or the other.

SourceTree | Mercurial and Git GUI for Mac OS X. That looks really good - although 45 euros is not exactly cheap. However, it can handle Git, Mercurial, and Subversion, so maybe I should take a look at it (there is a free trial version). Update: Short test by me and I really like it - you can integrate external diff tools (Changes is unfortunately only supported as a diff, not directly as a merge) and always have the same interface, regardless of which server is behind it. This takes away some of the pain of Git. Version tools are included internally, so you don't even need to have the command line versions installed. Looks really interesting.

GitHub for Mac. I'm a convinced Bitbucket user because of Mercurial, but this thing looks really good, you could easily switch to git just because of the interface. I'm often a mouse pusher and optics clicker underneath it all.