john.parnefjord.se Reflections & findings

This is just a note to myself so that I can cut and paste the snippet that generates a ChangeLog from a Subversion repository. To generate a ChangeLog in HTML from the last 14 days run this and save the resulting file in specific place and with a specific name:

I've been thinking for a while to switch to Python or Ruby as my primary programming language. I don't seem to be alone in the quest to adopt a new language. Of course the languages don't have to be used exlusivly, but it would be nice to have the main focus in one candidate. Here are some of the most important criterias:

1. international support, i.e. unicode
2. maintainability of code
3. available development tools
4. performance
5. scalability
6. active community
7. documentation