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I’m curently doing an internship (It’s called: “Poławiamy perły, szlifujemy diamenty” == “Pooling pearls, polishing diamonds” — very cool :-)) at XSolve – we’re doing some GWT coding and I really like it. The team is great and everyone is really helpful and fun to talk to — the company’s “look and feel” reminds me very much of Google by the way… It’s very friendly, everyone is calling others by their names and we often play together after some chunk of work. We’ve even stayed until 20:00 one time, while mounting some servers and having fun in the process – I actually didn’t mind staying so long thanks to this… :-)

Having that said… there is one thing I don’t like there… it’s SVN ;-) Of course I knew that I can’t be running from SVN all my life and that I’d end up using it someday in some company… As some may know, I’m a big Git (or mercurial) fan, thus – I kinda see what SVN is doring wrong. At XSolve we have this weekly-event called “Fridays at XSolve”, where one can present in a short 30min session, something he’s been interested in lately etc. It’s a really cool idea, that allows ideas do spread throughout the company – the HR team seems to really care to keep this atmosthere in the company… :-) This Friday I was given the honour and joy to be presenting Git – as we’ve been talking about it a few times during my first week here. Below is the presentation I’ve used:

You can download the presentation or the sources for the presentation here as they are also a simple (I’ve made one about Guava that’s a little more interesting from the TeX viewpoint) example of the LaTeX beamer – which apparently is also an favourite tool of some team members… :-) I’ve also talked a moment after the event with an v. good (so it seems) developer who knew really a lot about many different SCMs – we mentioned “cherry picking” which is really interesting but I don’t know much about it yet. If you don’t know much about Git – take a look at the above presentation, or better, start out your new (better) life with git by visiting these links:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Linusa Torvalds on Git vs CVS/SVN
• http://whygitisbetterthanx.com – why git is better than any other SCM ;-) A biased site obviously ;-)
• http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html – side-by-side with SVN
• http://git-scm.com – Git homepage

The presentation worked quite well I guess – some team members who knew about Git/SVN/Mecurial/Bzr etc, where adding their bits of knowledge which really made the presentation a lot more than just a bunch of boring slides… ;-) All in all it was all of those: fun, interesting and yet another occasion for me to train presenting stuff (I’m still bad at it, but well… life is study, right? :-)) I’m really happy to have the opportunity to be working in such a environment – I’ll post whatever is inseresting on this blog (if I have the time to do so :<), so keep an eye ot for some Java/GWT posts… :-)