http://tech.fredcooke.com My thoughts on all things technology! Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Git = a tree. Most (all?) labels refer (directly or indirectly) to a node in the tree. A node is identified uniquely by an SHA1 hash, which is generated from both the file system contents and the meta data. A node can have both N parents (google octopus merge) and/or ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2012/01/19/git-succinctly/ I just moved all of my godaddy domains, which I've always resented having, to namecheap due to their promotions and support of organisations against SOPA. SOPA will cripple the internet if it goes ahead. Of course, godaddy's corner of the internet is so slow and unintuitive that it's already crippled. ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2012/01/01/goodbye-godaddy-and-hopefully-sopa/ Oxford dictionaries define this to mean: Blind love of Apple iOS based products, especially for the latest iPhone variant, whatever that may be. or at least, they should... I first noticed this some time ago when I was dismayed to find out that my "pencil and paper" girlfriend had decided that she wanted ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2011/07/08/iphone-itis/ I'm in LOVE with Firefox 5, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH!!! I've not been this excited about a "boring" piece of day to day software tooling since, well, Mac System 7! I'm not sure if it's that much better than 3.6 or if it was using POS Safari for 2 ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2011/07/01/love-first-page-load-ff5/ This is just a little note for those that don't know about Markdown! I didn't. Now I do. I'm happier. To summarise Markdown it's human readable and editable in a simple text editor, and easily converted into HTML and other formats. Github use it for README.md parsing, and it brings ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2011/07/01/thumbs-up-for-markdown/ I regret having to write this post, but apparently my suggestions shall be ignored along with those from anyone that isn't the author. The author, Sitaram Chamarty, only takes patches to documentation and not the actual application. I find this attitude pretty sad indeed. No man is an island, especially ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2010/11/11/gitolite-flawed-logic/ Quite some time ago I setup Gitosis on my VPS and enjoyed having things like apache configuration and simple html sites backed up to my local machine with full revision history, and checks for changes and hacking on the box itself, too. There are so many benefits to putting your ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2010/10/29/gitosis-and-gitolite/ A few weeks ago I came across a piece of code inside a DAO class with logic to instantiate new model objects and return them with null contents (new object) instead of just null itself. This is wrong. It is particularly wrong because the entire rest of the DAO classes ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2009/05/21/layer-separation-interface-madness-and-hidden-side-effects/ This really belongs on The Daily WTF, but it will just have to live here for now I guess. All real names (except mine) have been replaced! Preface : A few months back I setup a project using Maven2 from scratch (You'll hear more about this in an upcoming article). This project ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2009/04/07/circumventing-maven/ What better way to start this blog than to thank those people that helped it come together! First of all, thanks to the crew at WordPress for creating this fine piece of software and sharing it with GPL! Thanks to Heidi for some theme hunting advice! Thanks to Barry for his simple ... http://tech.fredcooke.com/2009/03/31/first-up-thanks/