Chris Johnston

Why do I have to install Subversion onto my computer in order to use NetBeans Subversion? If I use Eclipse and install Subclipse, I don’t also have to install Subversion onto my computer. There is a full svn client build into the Eclipse plug-in. This is not the case for NetBeans. In addition, there is nothing that tells you that it is setup wrong until you try to check something out from a svn repository. This is just stupid. It should be a simple matter of downloading and installing the plug-in and away you go. Whatever happened to “it should just work”?

Talk about a small whirlwind. Yesterday was my first official day at ThoughtWorks. I started the day by getting up at 5am and going to the airport to fly to Calgary for a very brief orientation. Now I am in Chicago for 10 days of ThoughtWorks Immersion. Lots of fun, but the time has gone by far too quickly.

Right now it all seems a bit surreal. It has been six months since I first submitted my resume; I am having trouble believing that I am actually a ThoughtWorker now. I’m hoping to get over this in the next few days (or weeks).

The next goal is to relax a bit and enjoy the next two weeks in Chicago. Deep dish pizza here I come, yumm.