Month: May 2008

Git Workflow

Here’s my path to enlightment, and how I ended up using the index in my particular workflow. There are other workflows, but this one is mine. What this isn’t: a Git tutorial. It doesn’t tell you how to set up git, or use it. I don’t cover branches, or merging, or tags, or blobs. There are dozens of really great articles about Git on the web; here are some. What’s here are just some pictures that aren’t about branches or blobs, that I wished I’d been able to look at 6 months ago when I was trying to figure this stuff out; I still haven’t seen them elsewhere, so here they are now.

i hope we move to git soon. perforce is getting on my nerves.

Mondrian Open Sourced

Guido van Rossum, creator of Python and Google employee, has released a version of the internal Google code-checking tool Mondrian via the Python mailing list. The new app is called Code Review and was built with almost all new code on the Django framework. Code Review uses a lot of the same concepts and infrastructure that Mondrian does including Big Table.

so awesome. mondrian makes a huge difference for code reviews.

Pixel Perfect

the uncanny valley comes full circle

Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already—whether by dint of DNA or M·A·C—to look, as is the mode, superhuman. (Christy Turlington, for the record, needs the least help.) In the March issue of Vogue Dangin tweaked 144 images: 107 advertisements (Estée Lauder, Gucci, Dior, etc.), 36 fashion pictures, and the cover, featuring Drew Barrymore. To keep track of his clients, he assigns 3-letter rubrics, like airport codes. Click on the current-jobs menu on his computer: AFR (Air France), AMX (American Express), BAL (Balenciaga), DSN (Disney), LUV (Louis Vuitton), TFY (Tiffany & Co.), VIC (Victoria’s Secret).

Harvard Law open access

The faculty of Harvard Law School has unanimously approved a motion for open access: articles will be made freely available in an online repository. With the success of this motion, Harvard Law becomes the first law school to make an institutional commitment to open access to its faculty’s scholarly publications.

the dam is breaking

Chinese Insourcing

But Liu is investing $10m in South Carolina, building a printing-plate factory that will open this fall and hire 120 workers. His main aim is to tap the large American market, but when his finance staff penciled out the costs, he was stunned to learn how they compared with those in China. Liu spent $500k for 30k m2 in Spartanburg — less than 25% what it would cost to buy the same amount of land in Dongguan. US electricity rates are about 75% lower, and in South Carolina, Liu doesn’t have to put up with frequent blackouts.

you won’t hear this from the dobbtards