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by Cliffano Subagio
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Dioni's Wedding
I went to Sydney over the weekend to attend my good friend Dioni’s wedding. She’s the girl I referred to when I told my friends in Melbourne, “I know someone who works on a Star Wars game title at LucasArts.” Yes, she’s a game programmer and she spits code as part of the job.
Me, on the left, with the happy couple Dioni & Rendy.
The ceremony was held at Castlereagh Chapel, near Penrith.
The weekend itself was a nice short break right after a project I had been working on since last July. I decided to disconnect myself from the Internet for 3 days and not check my emails, feeds, tweets, and fb updates. Instead, I had a lot of conversations with people irl about various non-technology topics. Some of the interesting ones were on a different interpretation of “the will of the heavens” in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and on various rescue skills you will learn when you join the SES.
Hudson Code Swarm
I found a very interesting project called code_swarm, which is (as quoted from its web site) ‘an experiment in organic software visualization’. code_swarm analyses the commit activities within the project’s source repository, and generates a visual representation of those activities. Each resource commit is represented as a particle floating around the commiter’s username.
So I thought it would be interesting to see how Hudson has evolved as a project, check out the embedded video below… . The particles are color coded. Red-shaded particles for Java, Jar, JSP, Jelly. Yellow-shaded particles for XML, properties files. Green-shaded particles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images. Blue-shaded particles for various scripting languages.
Hudson Code Swarm from Cliffano Subagio on Vimeo.
If you have some bandwidth to burn, you should visit the video’s page at Vimeo.com, have a look at the bottom right of the page, and download the original video (344.31Mb at 1024×768 resolution). The particles look beautiful in great detail.
I used Hudson SVN log from r1 on 27 Oct 2004 to r14861 on 29 Jan 2009 as the activity data and fed it to code_swarm. You could see from the video that Kohsuke worked on his own until jglick started contributing at r533 on 1 Aug 2006.
There were 60+ contributors when I made my first commit at r10133 on 16 Jun 2008, and now the project has 100+ contributors. Hudson has definitely been gaining momentum in the past year or two on both the developers and users fronts. It would be interesting to see how the project will turn out in the next couple of years. Another Hudson Code Swarm video by Jan 2011?