Archive for September, 2008
A few reasons braid is better than 40 lines of Rake.
I’ve been doing a lot of looking at the git subtree merge strategy for tracking remote projects. Ideally, our remote projects would be tracked with submodules. The issue is, we are developing our own libraries for use in our own internal projects. We commonly do major development on the libraries and the [...]
Terminal Spelling
There are a miriad of dictionary tools on the Internet and for desktops. If you want, you can even pull out the dusty dictionary on your shelf. I find myself often wanting to use the dictionary not for a word definition, but to find out if I’m spelling a word correctly. Finding [...]
Internet on the go
I’m not very transient in my Internet usage, meaning that I use the Internet at home and at work, but not a lot while I’m traveling. On occasion however, I really wish I had a way to connect my laptop to the Internet somewhere where I don’t have a wireless connection. These days, [...]
Sharing git branches
I’ve been learning git lately. Here are a few tips for sharing branches I’ve collected during the past few weeks.
Create a branch
In git, branches are stored on your local machine. Even the commonly named “master”, is just a branch on your local machine. Master is simply set up to track a branch [...]
Custom Derived Classes for wxPython XRC resources
First of all, this isn’t a topic that is bran new or which requires new documentation. I have learned a few quirks about the process for creating custom controls, panels, frames, and other elements with XRC files in wxPython and I thought I’d write up a little post.
Let me point you to the two [...]