After 6 months of development, I’m happy to announce that my AccuRev SCM plugin for Vim is now available!

For AccuRev users who find their heart in Vim, you can get the plugin and details here.

It’s a huge relief to finally complete testing. The test matrix for a general utility supporting multiple platforms and multiple versions of 3rd party tools becomes exhausting for a single person… yet, I put together a methodical test plan and pounded it out over the course of a week. Of particular annoyance is that Vim doesn’t have an existing automated test framework so it requires MxN effort on part of the tester. That being said, well written and documented code is significantly easier to test… so it wasn’t all that bad.

I’m particularly happy to finish this release because Amy is due -any- day now! On the one hand, I’ll be tied up with family stuff for the first few weeks/months. Then again, the sooner I get Tyler typing, the sooner we can release more software .

Happy New Year!

The year 2007 marks the end of many things for me including bachelorhood… and MS Windows.

Married life has been great and Amy and I are awaiting the arrival of Tyler in coming weeks!

As for operating systems, after 2 years of booting predominately to Windows on my dual-boot work laptop, I have declared war. I received a (sick!) new laptop for work during the EOY Holiday week. I immediately formatted the drive, installed Ubuntu on a 100Gb primary partition and windows on the 2nd-ary 20Gb. Why windows at all? Well…. just in case. My job depends on a number of independent factors and having a tiny, tiny, very small partition dedicated was enough for security sake. Also, web meeting tools like GoToMeeting don’t have ports to linux (yet) so I need a channel for remote meetings. Only a minor annoyance though.

Linux forever!