I’ve been a longtime subversion user and before that Visual SourceSafe (ew gross), but at the new jobby job, it’s all git all the time. Being very used to the pretty awesome TortoiseSVN and ZigVersion gui clients for svn, I’ve been a bit hesitant to really dive into git, not really knowing what to expect [...]
Entries Tagged as 'goodstuff'
Why Git Rocks
October 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: goodstuff · programming · technology
The Big Switch
October 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Well, it’s been a few weeks of working fulltime with Ruby, Rails, on OS X and I must say, I know so much less than I thought I did about OS X, Ruby, and Unix-like systems than I could have imagined. I have taken for granted that in the last seven years of experience I [...]
Tags: goodstuff · osx · technology
Secrets of Being a US Open Ninja
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments
KL and I went to the US Open last night and saw some great tennis. The Williams sisters beat the crap out of each other until Serena prevailed, and M. Fish put up a great fight with Nadal for a while. We’ve been lucky enough to have a great ticket hookup over the past several [...]
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Changing My Name
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Zac([kh]|hary)$
As Afshin says, it’s pronounced “Zack Dollar”.
Tags: goodstuff · humor · programming
Innovation
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s pretty funny that we actually have Microsoft to thank for the original XHR. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in their R&D labs.
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JavaScript, the Good Parts
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments
This guy is so great. First JSON message failed because of JavaScript limitation on not allowing reserved keywords as name part of object literals.
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Fanboy Supercuts from Waxy
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Great post over there today. My favorites have been the Every Turbo Boost in Knight Rider one and The Big Lebowski - The Fucking Short Version.
Tags: goodstuff · humor · idiocy
Useful Keyboard Shortcut of the Day Alt+Enter
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Alt+Enter brings up the properties panel for items in Windows. I did not know this. Equivalent in most cases to right clicking, properties but much much faster.
Tags: goodstuff · microsoft · technology
Daily Bacon Update
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This Bacon & Egg pie sounds great!
Baby Back Shrimp Recipe
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments
(4:52:03 PM) kaitlen: incidentally, happy belated baby back shrimp day
(4:52:21 PM) kaitlen: we’ve still gotta come up with a recipe, man.
(4:52:30 PM) zack: haha goddamn
(4:52:33 PM) kaitlen: that sounds too tasty to abandon
(4:52:35 PM) zack: happy bbsd
(4:53:00 PM) zack: that sort of sounds like some weird fetish porn though
(4:53:09 PM) kaitlen: haha a bit, yeah
(4:54:35 [...]
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