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Yeah, so git is good.
Late Adopter I'm a late adopter of almost everything. Being a long time "windows guy" I typically wait at least 2 years after a new version of windows is released before upgrading. I am on Vista...
View ArticleA few git-svn Tips
clone a remote svn repo and it's branches and tags git-svn clone -T trunk -b branches -t tags -r 1124:HEAD https://mysvnserver/myproj this will bring down all history from revision 1124 onward intoa...
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Apple Store…
My story of how I was *almost* a Mac fanboi... I've been needing a new laptop capable of doing development on for a few months now. Typically I'm developing on my nice quad-core desktop, however now...
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I’ve…. changed….
Much like with Mac, I've never been impressed with Sushi. I've gone for sushi before and usually it was because someone said "you don't like sushi? Oh, dude, you just haven't had the good stuff" but...
View ArticleDeath of the disconnected LAN party
Say what you will, but LAN parties are *way* better than just getting on some pub server and talking with your buddies over VOIP. In a LAN party setting, I can literally walk up behind a guy and start...
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Oracle Sproc Tip
A colleague of mine, Guillermo Castro, showed me how to print the results of a stored procedure call that returns a ref cursor in Oracle. In SqlDeveloper you would make a script like so: var results...
View ArticleWicket in Action Review
Wrote a review on the most excellent book Wicket in Action for the Mystic Coders. For those who haven't heard of Wicket, it's a Java web framework that allows designers (the chaps good with...
View Articlegit gotcha
Just thought I'd post about a problem I was having with git concerning the setup and cloning of a remote repository. Basically, if you've setup a repository on a remote machine, and want to clone from...
View ArticleTip: mimic user file permissions to group
I ran into a situation the other day where I had setup a git repository for myself and wanted to grant read/write access to another fellow who is helping out on the project. He could pull from the...
View Articlegit-svn gotcha
I was having problems with the following setup the other day: [remote deveoper] <===>; [shared git repo] <===> [me] <===> [client's svn repo] So my remote developer and I push and...
View ArticleSessions in Wicket
Found out a valuable lesson about session management in Wicket today. Wicket tries to be as stateless as long as possible, I believe it takes some hints from how your pages are built to know if it...
View ArticleMore git goodies
If you are in a subdirectory of your project and want to know where the .git directory lives above you: git rev-parse --git-dir My coworker Guillermo Castro (aka the JavaGeek) found this one by pure...
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Best Buy: Over Packing FTL!!!111one!!1
So Best Buy during their "Boxing Week" sale (for you yanks, think Black Friday) had a Rock Band microphone stand w/ USB extension cord on for $9.99. Now, the Best Buy is only a 10min drive from me so...
View ArticleLASP – Linux Apache Sqlite PHP
I had installed LAMP on my Ubuntu box to prepare for some WordPress I'm doing for a client. It was pretty easy, just followed the Ubuntu LAMP Guide. The only thing is, I wanted to create a few custom...
View ArticleFunctioning in Screen
I've used screen for years, probably since the 50th time I got booted off an irc server because my connection was broken. It also came in handy when I was compiling something that took a long time to...
View ArticleSurviving Integration Hell -or- How *not* to Handle Projects Outsourced to...
Integration--the process of porting ones build artifacts from a development to end production environment--in my mind is the biggest unknown for a software project. Production environments are usually...
View ArticleSetting up a new remote git repository
If you are like me, I have a "central" git repository on a computer I backup regularly. On my laptop/desktop I do all my work and make sure to do constant pushes to the "central" repository. Just...
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Five Days of Wicket!
Checkout this series of articles I'm involved in over at Mystic Coders called The Five Days of Wicket. The purpose of the article is to show how to create a properly layered Wicket application...
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Creating an FBJS Widget
Those of us who have created more than our fair share of javascript widgets, who have grown to love their favourite frameworks like jQuery, prototype and script.acul.us, think we'll simply whip off a...
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Joel and Jeff – TDD is Relevant
I'm a big fan of the site Stack Overflow, albeit I find it tough with my schedule to fully contribute to the site but before the site was even live I was a faithful listener to their podcast. I...
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