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Review: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
Title: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git Author: Travis Swicegood Rating: $stars(4) Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf Copyright: 2008 ISBN: 1934356158 Pages: 179 Keywords: computers Reading period: 10–18 October, 2009 As part of my personal conversion...
Third-Party Cookies
Over the last few weeks, I built a PHP application that overlays Approve 71 banners on profile pictures . The actual application is hosted in an iframe and lives on a server in a different domain, eq.dm , than the main server at approvereferendum71.org...
Gitting Along
In the last few weeks, I've switched over to Git for most of my version-control needs, at home and at work, after putting it on the long finger for months. We continue to use Subversion at work, but I've recently followed Pavel and Eric's lead in using...
NTFS-3G: the universal filesystem
After I started running Linux and then Mac OS X, in addition to Windows, I started on a quest to find the universal filesystem. I had multiboot systems and external drives where I wanted to to be able to read and write disks under multiple operating systems...
The Bowling Game
There's a flamefest going on at the moment between Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin and Joel Spolsky over the value of Test-Driven Design and the SOLID principles . I find TDD valuable and I'm reading Martin's Clean Code at present. Poking around in...
#1 Technical Blog, revisited
A week ago, I said that my technical blog somehow comes up as #1 technical blog on Google. Several people pointed out that in my screenshot, I was logged in to Google. As you can see if you click on this screenshot, I can reproduce this result even when...
#1 Technical Blog
A friend whom I haven't heard from in a few years googled for technical blog this evening, and my technical blog somehow came up as the very first hit! I have no idea how I achieved such high page rank, nor how I eclipsed Mark Russinovich .
Distributed Version Control Systems on Windows
At work, I've been experimenting with the big three Distributed Version Control Systems, Git , Mercurial , and Bazaar , on Windows over the last ten days. Pavel and Eric have been singing the praises of Git and git-svn on their Mac and Linux boxes respectively...
Preload Ajax Data as JSON
Preloading Ajax data as JSON has helped improve the load time and perceived performance of our family software application. Most of the pages in our web client are dynamically generated in the browser from a complex set of JavaScript and CSS, so we're...
Sharing Dotfiles between Windows and *nix
Tomas Restrepo wrote a post about sharing dotfiles between Windows and Ubuntu , specifically about sharing .vimrc (Linux) and _vimrc (Windows) and the .vim (Linux) and vimfiles (Windows) directories. I have a different solution. On Windows, my C:\AutoExec...
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