Have you ever wanted to know who’s the top committer in your company?
In my previous company we etablished the term “CVS King”, a title comparable to “Employee of the month”. The developer with the most cvs commits was the “CVS King of the month”. We determined who was the “CSV King” using commit emails that were sent to all developers on each cvs commit.
Two years ago we switched to Subversion, so now we’re talking about the “Subversion King”. Naturally all this is anything but serious ;)

Anyway, today i programmed a little php script that uses a different approach to determine who is the “Subversion King of the Month”. It’s counting the line delta directly from the svn repository using svnlook. So the developer with the most lines added to the repository (not the most commits) is the number one.
Here’s some example output (names are anonymized):

--- Most productive users for 11/2007 ---
1   usera                6319      42.47%
2   userb                5797      38.96%
3   userc                1990      13.37%
4   userd                 773      05.20%
--- Most active commiters for 11/2007 ---
1   usera                  47         47%
2   userb                  34         34%
3   userc                   4          4%
4   userd                   2          2%
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The script reads all commits (revisions) for the current month, counts the line delta (how many lines have been added/removed) and the amount of commits.
You can view the highlighted source here or download the script here. Use it on the command line like that:
php -f /path/to/svn/repository

I know that the number of lines comitted may not be the one and only criteria to measure the productivity of a developer. But its an indicator to start with.
So the question is: Are you the “Subversion King” in your company/project?

P.S.
Again, please, dont take this serious ;)

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Md5.rednoize.com has been updated yesterday. The web site features a new design and has gained support for sha1 hashes. The interface has been ajaxified and the amount of hashes stored in the database has been increased again. The database stores now about 35,000,000 md5/sha1 hashes with their plain text counterpart. And md5.rednoize.com got a new logo as well ;)

The “URL API” has not been changed. You still may use the parameter “p” for plain text and “xml” for xml output. The new optional url parameter “s” defines the search mode (currently supported are md5 and sha1).

I would greatly appreciate your feedback ;)

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At least on my monitor md5(); is visible on the first page without scrolling when searching for “md5″. So my page is on position 7 or 8 (depends whether you count php.net twice or not). Thats so awesome!
Oh .. and here is a screenshot.

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The amount of the stored hashes on md5.rednoize.com has made a large jump in the last few days. The site in the google cache (dated from 30 Aug 2006 19:49:32 GMT) counts 5,531,616 md5 strings.
The actual count is about 6,363,467.

The ip 24.141.55.x has added about 400,000 plain text strings to the database.
It started (21 Aug 2006 12:27:50) with “3QOOk28N” and “NtIDSzQ7″, then went over to dictionary words
like “codex”, “hazard”, “strength” to finaly end the mass attack with “Zyzzogeton” (what ever this is supposed to mean) on 02 Sep 2006 06:57:45. For more then ten days the server had a somehow higher load then usual thanks to this guy (although i did not recognized it before yesterday).

In contrast to the “donor of hashes” mentioned above, the ip 195.114.42.x has requested clear text strings for about 53,800 md5 hashes. The attack started on 02 Sep 2006 04:27:24 and lasted until 12:49 the same day. 53,800 queries in 8 hours is a good score.

So, in reaction to this abuse, the web site sleeps some milliseconds with each query from now on.
Normal users should not be affected by this, but these mass query scripts should be slowed down, at least a little bit.

Actually I do not have anything against such mass queries to my server. However the other services running on the machine should not be impaired.

Conclusion: Thanks to the donor, shame on the leecher.

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The most recent project i am working on, Hiphop-Battles.com, went finally online today. My partners and me are working on this project for about 2 years now. The team consists of Eike Reifhardt (BioPhonC) who made all the artistic stuff (web design, CI, and all other types of media), Michael Scheel (StarbuG) who is the original founder of hiphop-battles.com and manages all the organizational stuff, and me (puRe) who made all the web site programming, database layout and such things.

We’ve put a lot new features into the new version, which i will describe detailed in forthcoming posts.
For now you may read the official press release:

On September 1st, one of the leading international hip-hop battle websites, www.hiphop-battles.com, relaunched to introduce a brand new design and a new free arena for graffiti battles.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany (PRWEB) September 1, 2006 -– With the launch of the second version of www.hiphop-battles.com on September 1st, a third battle arena for graffiti graphic battles was introduced to the website, next to the older arenas for rap and beatbox audio battles. The graffiti arena was a response to the high demand in the hip-hop and graffiti scene, which currently lacks legal ways for competing art skills with graffiti writers from all over the world.

Hiphop-battles.com provides hip-hop fans and artists with free access to over 15,000 legal hip-hop mp3s and a way to vote in ongoing battles in a democratic voting system. The ranking system tells the visitor about “who is hot and who is not” and orients new users, to find the most interesting battles. In its second version, www.hiphop-battles.com also received a total makeover, and shines with a brand new design. Switching to another interface language or to another arena got much easier, and can now be controlled from everywhere on the website.

With the rap, beatbox and the new graffiti battle arena, www.hiphop-battles.com now combines three important elements of hip-hop, and strengthens its position as leading hip-hop battle website.

For more information about the relaunch of hiphop-battles.com or the new online graffiti battle feature, please visit www.hiphop-battles.com/press/, or contact Michael Scheel.

About hiphop-battles.com

www.hiphop-battles.com is a unique online competition platform for international hip-hop artists focusing on audio and graphic battles. With over 11,000 members and more then 8000 battles we have become one of the leading hip-hop competition websites. HipHop-Battles.com enables artists to compete their rap, beatbox and graffiti skills with other artists from around the globe. Hip-hop fans get free access to over 15,000 legal mp3s and the constantly growing community is producing new content on a daily basis.

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Today i took a look at my md5 site and found out that i (we) broke the 2 million barrier. The database has now 2,007,161 md5 strings with their counter part stored. 222,101 queries where run against the database till now. The size of the database has grown to 320 MB on the disk.

I even found out that some crazy people use my website in their scripts and programs. Someone (not me) created a search plugin for mozilla. Another guy created a PHP Class that uses my site. Again another guy created an IRC bot that “reverses” given md5 strings on command … using my site.
The website currently produces ~300 MB traffic per month, so thats okay for now.

I really never expected that this little project attracts so much attention ;)

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