Wednesday, January 30, 2002

[via Scripting News] Patrick Lioi has developed what what he calls a Line-Locked Concurrent File Access With XML. In his words in the conclusion: "Having zero textual conflicts prevents any need for manually handling file merges and navigating diff3 output".

Unfortunately, the idea won't work for real software development. I know. I've been through this before. Just because you eliminate textual conflict doesn't mean logical conflict is eliminated. I can check out a few lines of a file and make changes that break the lines you are editing. There's a reason why CVS and RCS are used. They're cumbersome but they work. 2:45:03 PM

We've all heard of the Ten Commandments of C,

I've added a little twist on it with the Ten Commandments of Embedded C.

Embedded systems programming is hard. I provide training to 1st tier automotive suppliers, so maybe I can help your team out too. Send me an email if you're interested. 12:35:36 PM