March 2012
2 posts
February 2012
2 posts
The Art of Manliness: How to not be a wuss & learn... →
ilovetherun:
Good man-vibe! I wonder if someone can create a man-trest in running…send it off to the hipsters, they’ll get it rolling!
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
7 posts
Working on the command line, hands poised over the keys uninterrupted by...
– The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Rules are great. I love them and I hand them out as much as any other...
– Rubies in the Rough | Doing it Wrong
If that sounds like slicing a pie into more pieces to reduce the total number of...
– Dive Into HTML5 | Detecting HTML5 Features | Local Storage
The more technical debt you take on, the tighter your disciplines need to be....
– A Mess is not a Technical Debt
Technical Debt consists of liabilities incurred from decisions based on...
– The Coding Wasteland | Virtuous Code
» Notes To Self Hacker Forge →
I need to revisit these everyday!
With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of...
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
October 2011
1 post
taking design seriously is not about having a dictator fuss over seams and...
– The Mythical Man-Month
September 2011
4 posts
Don’t try to be original, just try to be good
– Why you should care about Typography?
ultimately, for a lot of our clients, working with developers is like going to...
– What I Learned
In order to make something great, you usually have to make a lot of bad things...
– John Mayer on Finishing Projects (even if they are awful)
August 2011
41 posts
In good OO programming, we don’t make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our...
– Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial
Reflection is one of the most important parts of learning, and writing helps you...
– Letter to a Young Developer by Avdi Grimm
If the consequences of missing the deadline are fearsome, then you can expect...
– The Perfect Deadline
This is where modules shine. They allow some of the benefits of inheritance in...
– Issue #2: Ruby’s method lookup path (2 of 2) of Practicing Ruby
People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And...
– Warren Buffet dropping some wisdom backed by some facts in his New York Times article
Practice is stimulating and rewarding, almost meditative. It’s a quiet...
– Change of Subject: In praise of the lost art of practice
In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under...
– Quoted from The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
This is the problem with entitlements. They are only really entitlements when...
– John Stewart on The Daily Show
According to the ECFR paper published simultaneously this week in the...
– Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory
Why Rubyists Should Care About Messaging (A High... →
I’m a n00b when it comes to Messaging (ok, fine! I’m a n00b when it comes to Ruby too) but this article does a great job of highlighting where messaging can fit in your applications architecture while making you aware of the potential pitfalls.
Such is the danger of specialization, a horribly easy trap to fall into. It’s...
– Keeping the Lights On
When you’re an expert in something, the stuff you learn is subtle—often...
– A business on the side …
Ultimately, being a good open source citizen is about respecting what open...
– 10 Tips For Open Source Citizens
[S]top thinking in hours. Start focusing on making great things. It’s about the...
– It’s not about how many hours you work
go where people need your service, and have the money to pay for it.
– This tree guy has good business advice
Nil is a sad shell of an object, and it’s just not polite to hand a developer a...
– If you gaze into nil, nil gazes also into you
It’s probably human nature to like people who are like you, but learning to work...
– Why Startups should try and hire women
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git pull is equivalent to a git fetch followed by a git merge.
– Git Immersion - Lab 44 - Pulling Changes
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git fetch command will fetch new commits from the remote repository, but it will...
– Git Immersion - Lab 42 - Fetching Changes
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When to Rebase, When to Merge?
Don’t use rebase …
If the branch is public...
– Git Immersion - Lab 34 - Rebasing
Life is so hard →
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TIL: how to set global gitignore →
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Git focuses on the changes to a file rather than the file itself. When you say...
– http://gitimmersion.com/lab_09.html#main_content
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