When bitbucket added git to their code hosting service, I signed up to try out the service. Primarily since they offer unlimited free private repositories, which is perfect for one-coder projects like this blog. Each repository also gets a wiki and an issue tracker. Creating an account was straight forward, I then had to import […]
The TiVo community has started to dissect the latest DVR from TiVo and finds intriguing new features, along with more than 300 hours of HD recording capacity. Another interesting find, the unit is more energy efficient, drawing about 20 Watts. They’ve even started opening up their brand new boxes and taking photos of the guts. And a
Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read. By the way, while Wall Street may be responsible for bad things, it is Wall Street who financed putting a million miles of fiber optic cables crisscrossing continents and under oceans. It is Wall Street that financed the thousands of cell
The day steve jobs died, my mom, who is in the hospital fighting ovarian cancer, came off of a respirator. She couldn’t talk, so she used my iPad to type out what she needed.
One of my newest and persistent obsessions is constantly looking for ways to make dcunited.com load faster. It’s a challenge because we want to have a content-rich site, with lots of photos, videos, and interactive elements. There are a lot of techniques you can try, from optimizing images, using subdomains to trick browsers into downloading
Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don’t think its just true for startups, I know at work we’re doing
When a prominent developer and contributor lashes out that Drupal is in dire straits, you better listen. You ought to read his critique of how Drupal core development is stalling, or at least stuck in the mud. That can’t be good news for anyone looking to upgrade to Drupal 7. My thoughts after the quote.
I don’t want to anger the woods gods by posting this, but I’ll risk it. So far, this is shaping up to be the first summer in 5ish years (or more, I’ve lost count) where I haven’t been exposed to poison ivy. And that is despite finding some very poision ivy looking plant in one
I can’t seem to remember the specicfic magic git switches when pushing and pulling branches between different git repositories, so I am writing it down here. 1. Create your local branch for development git checkout -b my-branch 2. Push local branch to remote server & track it. git push -u origin my-branch 3. Checkout and
Matthew at DogStar describes his PM toolbox today, The Project Management Tool Box | Opensource, Nonprofits, and Web 2.0. It’s a detailed and well organized list, and I think reflects a very practical approach. The first thing that strikes me, is the overwhelming amount of tools available to the would-be PM. Certainly, there is no lack