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Backstory: I spent a great deal of time writing and extending a thread-safe, fault-tolerant enterprise framework for my current employer. The lead architect designed something of beauty, and it has been a real joy to work with it every day for the past two years. End of backstory. When I started toying with Erlang as [...]

So… I’ve been away for a while. A longggg-ish while, anyway. So what’s been going on? Lots of things: I went out and got married to a very lovely lady: I became we and we began planning our relocation out of Oklahoma. Moving is stressful and blissful. So far we don’t know where we’re moving, [...]

The following QuickTime Vimeo screencast is about two minutes and thirty seconds long and is aimed at developers new to git and unfamiliar with git. I talk about initializing a new repository, adding files to a new repository, committing, status and the git revision log.

I’ve used many-a revision control tools during my software development career, beginning with Visual Source Safe, migrating to SourceGear’s Vault followed by a long and fantastic relationship with Subversion and now, in my own personal projects, git. By far my favorite has been git. Ladies and gentleman, I’m telling you now: Distributed revision control is [...]

I recently acquired an Asus Eee PC 1000 for development purposes. The default Xandros install… well, it’s just not my cup o’ tea. In fact, I hated it. So within hours of unpacking the 1000, I replaced Xandros with Ubuntu Eee, a nice little netbook-friendly Ubuntu-based 8.04 distro featuring Canonical’s Netbook Remix interface.