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About three years ago, our team migrated from using Subversion to Mercurial, primarily because of the pain involved with branches. If you've heard the phrase "tree conflict," then you know what we were dealing with.

I've begun presenting again with some frequency. My topic of choice, unsurprisingly, is PowerShell. I had presented on PowerShell quite a bit back in 2009, but since then I had taken a break. Now that everyone in the area has had sufficient time to forget my earlier presentations, I can just recycle my earlier talks and give them again!

Date math is hard... at least for me. My brain has trouble thinking in terms of dates. I probably overanalyze things, but if you say something like "let's meet for dinner 2 days from now," I immediately start thinking things like "inclusive" or "exclusive" dates. Do you mean 2 days from now including today? Does it include today if it is morning, but if it is evening, we'll start with tomorrow? As I said, I'm sure I'm overanalyzing.

It's been a good 4 years since I last gave a public presentation in Memphis (it was on PowerShell), so I figured it was time to give another talk. Tonight, I gave a short talk on CasperJS at the Memphis Java User Group.

Last week, prior to a weekly meeting, one of my team members had the idea to take a few minutes before the meeting to review some code. We already do code reviews prior to deployments, but we've been wanting to improve the quality of the code reviews... we wanted to really have good dialog about code quality and be able to share that discussion with the whole team.