I forget when I learned about special relativity, sometime in Junior or Senior High School, I think. I always had the most basic of understanding. At some point, I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and I understood a bit more.
For some reason, my web meanderings today took me to a Wikipedia article [...]
Excellent DVCS Analysis: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis. In summary:
In terms of implementation effort, Mercurial has a clear advantage due to its efficient HTTP transport protocol.
In terms of features, Git is more powerful, but this tends to be offset by it being more complicated to use.
I’ve adopted Git for my own personal use, though have recently learned that there [...]
This is a great tutorial on tools I’ve never used (aside for the clone stamp tool, of which I’m very familiar). Check it out!
I posted a few of these over the years, this one is the most crisp and well-done of the ones I have seen:
Recently, I started to realize that pages were taking a long time to load. When I finally became conscious of this, I looked into it. DNS resolution was tasking forever. After a few weeks of ignoring the problem and playing tricks with my provider’s router, I decided to Google my way out of the problem. [...]
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a C, the idea must be feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.
I had always wondered how to send HTML e-mails—you know, the ones with embedded pictures, css, and specialized formatting—from my Gmail account but could never figure it out. Perhaps Gmail prevented this to make sure people didn’t use their Gmail accounts as a source of SPAM. Who knows. I googled, too, yes I did. Still [...]
THIS is a great read. Best tutorial I’ve seen. Concise and right on the mark.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/
After a few months, I started to understand those under-the-hood concepts. Once I did, suddenly everything made sense. I could understand the manual pages and perform all sorts of source control tasks. Everything that seemed so cryptic and obscure now was [...]
I’m an avid fan of git, a great open-source version control system. I wrote a little bit about how I use my website as a private repository before. Now, I’m going to show you how to integrate it with Perforce.
Working with Perforce as a remote repository functions in a similar way to using svn or [...]
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