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Bookmarks for April 28th through May 8th

by Ron Bieber on Friday, 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 this 15 minute session, the team members share their commitments along with the impediments blocking them from moving forward. According to Scrum, only the committed team members (pigs) are allowed to speak during these meetings. Other interested people (chickens) can join in, but they should just listen. Is there a limit on the maximum number of chickens, who could attend the daily scrums? An interesting discussion on the Scrum Development group tries to answer this question."
  • Producing Open Source Software – Free book describing the Open Source development methodology and how to run an open source project. One of my favorite books on development process.
  • Agile Alliance: Agile Alliance Home – Home page of the Agile Alliance.
  • saplink – Google Code – "SAPlink is an open source project that aims to make it easier to share ABAP developments between programmers. It provides the ability to easily distribute and package custom objects."
  • Cocoa Samurai: Distributed Version Control & Git [Part 1] – "When you start using Distributed Version Control you tend to start making a lot of branches and do many more merges, it becomes you do commits and merges when you want to vs doing them in some regularity because you fear your version control system might make things harder if you don't commit or merge now."
  • Understanding Git Conceptually – "This tutorial [takes] a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe."
  • Compromising Quality for Schedule | Musings of a Software Development Manager – "I found myself silently cheering for Uncle Bob as he described a recent presentation where the speaker had just about given up on ever getting better code quality, because businesses didn’t value it."
  • Tuning IE7 for Better Performance
  • Facebook Developers | Facebook Open Platform – "Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FBML parser, the FQL parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags."

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Bookmarks for February 8th through March 11th

March 11, 2009

Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows – "Can a dedicated Windows user make it for two weeks using only Linux? Preston Gralla tried it and lived to tell this tale."
zobie's blog // Migrating from svn to git –
Converting a Subversion repository to git – Another set of instructions for moving Subversion repositories [...]

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Bookmarks for January 15th through January 19th

January 20, 2009

git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru – Tip site for git from the makers of GitHub.
InfoQ: Pair Programming vs. Code Review – "Theodore Nguyen-Cao described code reviewers as chickens, and paired programmers as pigs."
Coding Horror: Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly – "So I have this friend. I've told him time and [...]

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Bookmarks for December 19th

December 20, 2008

Versions – Mac Subversion Client (SVN) – "Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac. Whether you’re a hardcore Subversion user or new to version control systems, Versions will help streamline your workflow. "
GnuCash, for Personal and Business Finance, Out in New Version | OStatic – "These days, we're all watching [...]

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Bookmarks for November 14th through November 16th

November 16, 2008

Featured Windows Download: ISODisk Mounts up to Twenty Disk Images – ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive.
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities – "I am sharing [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th through October 27th

October 27, 2008

Contributing to Rails: Step-by-Step « A Fresh Cup – "There are a few guides floating around about how to contribute your own code to Rails. But none of them (or at least none of the ones that I found) walk you through every step of the way. So, here’s an attempt to fill that gap." [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th

October 24, 2008

14 things to do if you are laid off from a tech job | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET – "Geeks and other tech employees are a little different from the vanilla workforce, though, so I wanted to put together a list of specific things that people in our part of [...]

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Best Buys “Crash Special Offer”

October 11, 2008

Photo by rbieber

Nuff said.

[tags]windows,crash,flickr,photos[/tags]

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Bookmarks for September 29th

September 30, 2008

Pub uses electronic cigarettes to beat the smoking ban – Telegraph – "The new E.cig smokes like a real cigarette and users get a shot of nicotine every time they inhale. The device even produces a cloud of water vapour with every puff, though causes no harm to smokers. "
SourceForge.net: pGina – Project that [...]

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How To Set Up Mac OSX To Print to a Windows Print Share

October 28, 2007

I found one annoyance about Mac OSX. I could not figure out how to set my Mac up to print to our shared printer that is connected to a Windows XP machine.
Well, thats not necessarily true. I figured it out once, but for some reason it just [...]

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The Windows “Shutdown Button Project”

November 27, 2006

A really interesting article describing project dynamics around the Windows Vista Shutdown menu. I found this on Slashdot.

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More on Mind Mapping and MindManager

September 23, 2006

I’ve been playing around with MindJet MindManager over the last week or so and I have to say, overall I really like it. Mindmapping provides a great mechanism in getting your thoughts down on paper and establishing relationships between different concepts, especially for someone who suffers from “chronic editor” syndrome such as myself.
I’d [...]

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Flickr: Error Message While Receiving Windows Update

September 14, 2006

Photo by cky3
Error message recieved when getting updates.

For some reason, this picture cracked me up. I know this has happened to me before but for some reason it didn’t strike me as weird until seeing this on Flickr.

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Screencast Demo of Castblaster Podcasting Software

September 13, 2006

If you’ve been looking for a tool to make podcasting much easier than using Audacity, you might want to check out Castblaster. I’ve used it for quite some time and each release it just gets better and better.
While browsing the Castblaster forums, I came across this screencast put together by Troy of the [...]

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Windows is weak: wheres the alternative?

August 29, 2005

According to this CNET article, now is the perfect time for a Windows alternative to strike, as Longhorn is descoped and it is getting harder and harder to find a reason to actually upgrade from XP.

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