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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 [...]

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Zac([kh]|hary)$
As Afshin says, it’s pronounced “Zack Dollar”.

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AKA string formatting, AKA Putting values of variables into strings, AKA that thing you do with the funny symbols to get the values of variables inside strings.
At the most basic level, most programmers find that at some point they need to insert the values of a whole bunch of variables into a string. The naive [...]

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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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Here’s the interface for managing users in a version of postNuke that we are running on one of our websites:

40,000+ items in a dropdown box FTW! The HTML for this weighs in at around 2MB by itself. I hope this is fixed in a more recent version.

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Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

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These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original [...]

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Code on the Road: Navigating The Minefield that is Visual Source Safe: “comment”
Dudes, it was time to move to Subversion two years ago. Get going!

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I noticed this Sunday while reading the New York Times online that when you are in the main text of an article, double-clicking anywhere on the body of the article causes a pop-up window to spawn. The pop-up contains a dictionary definition of the word that has been highlighted by your double-click action. This is [...]

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If you work in tech, and you glean humor from the peril of other people’s interactions with incompetence, you’ve probably seen http://thedailywtf.com/. Go on, take a look. It’s pretty good stuff. In my “pay the bills” job, I run into so many WTFs that it has become almost devoid of humor for me. Here’s one [...]

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