From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Bookmarks for May 12th through May 28th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, May 28, 2009

  • Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin – GitHub – Git plugin for Mercurial, that adds interoperability between the two distributed version control systems.
  • git awsome-ness [git rebase --interactive] – MadBlog – Quick article describing the use of git rebase -i.
  • A List Apart: Articles: Burnout – "It's taken me the better part of a year to finish writing this article, and the reasons it took that long are tied directly to the topic at hand. If anything, the last year has made it clear that we as an industry are facing increased levels of stress, illness, and exhaustion. Having learned a few things from my own battle with exhaustion and burnout, I hope they’ll benefit others who are now or may eventually be in the same situation."
  • NOOP.NL: Self-Organization = Anarchy (Part 1) – Article talking about how self-organization is the norm for the universe – and software development teams.
  • The Git Parable – "The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation of a Git-like system from the ground up. Understanding the concepts presented here will be the most valuable thing you can do to prepare yourself to harness the full power of Git. The concepts themselves are quite simple, but allow for an amazing wealth of functionality to spring into existence. Read this parable all the way through and you should have very little trouble mastering the various Git commands and wielding the awesome power that Git makes available to you."
  • Agile methodologies aren't just for small coding projects :: SearchCIO.com.au – In this article Scott Ambler talks about how to scale agile.
  • Five whys – Joel on Software – Joel talks about an outage situation and how the team evolved from "setting SLA's" to Five Why root cause analysis and a solution that wasn't quite where they started.
  • Fraser Speirs – Understanding Git Submodules – Article explaining git submodules.

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Murder From A Ten Year Olds Perspective

May 11, 2009

Paul Scharff has started blogging about his experiences at the age of 10 when his father Ron Scharff and his employee Patricia Freeman were murdered by Larry Neumann over on his McHenry County 1981 site.

Paul’s story is a heart touching one – and it seems to me he has quite the gift for writing and making you feel what he went through. This is an interesting read for anyone interested in the case.

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Bookmarks for April 28th through May 8th

May 8, 2009

Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide – Stack Overflow – The beginnings of a "Practical Guide to Git" being authored on stackoverflow.com.
Highest Voted "git" Questions – Stack Overflow – Quesions tagged with Git on StackOverflow.com
InfoQ: How Many Chickens Are Too Many? – "The daily scrum is an important meeting within the Agile team. During [...]

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