Archive for June, 2010

Mercurial Queues Tip

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

First off, I love using mercurial to manage source code. It provides a lot of power and flexibility. Some things that you want to do, however, are not always straight forward. In an effort to make clean isolated commits and avoid filling the commit log with 10s of patches as I develop a new feature [...]

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Programming Apprenticeship

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

I’ve been watching a lot of Holmes Inspection on HGTV lately. If you’re not familiar with the show Mike Holmes is the general contractor who goes into a home that has some problems – usually bad renovations have left the home structurally unsound, mold problems, overloaded electrical boxes and a full list of instances of [...]

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