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JustAGeek

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    Comment #3667300

    Thanks for this post, it's all too easy to forget all this in your daily routine. If the OP reads this, if you work at a company where much of this isn't possible, why not move on?…

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    Comment #3196466

    While the participants are encouraged to use TDD, this is no strict rule. The goal is to write the best, cleanest code you possibly can. What I've found the most value in, is that …

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    Comment #3010013

    Thank you very much for linking to this email, some great pieces of advice in it!

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    Comment #2995310

    To answer to the question in the title of this submission: You should not. As soon as a feature has got released to all users of a software, you won't be able to disable it without…

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    Comment #2941377

    Yes, it does, why shouldn't it? 1. Edit some files 2. start git gui and commit 3. repeat 1+2 as many times as you want 4. git svn dcommit 5. all local commits will now be committed…

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    Comment #2941180

    Well, actually git-svn is really useful when you work in an environment where SVN is used as VCS. I've been doing this for almost three years now and haven't had any major problems…

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    Comment #2911972

    On peepcode.com you can find several screencasts where you can watch experienced developers working on a mini-project while thinking out loud The series is called "Play by play". H…

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    Comment #2793135

    I was about to suggest that book, too. Also, check out this blog post: http://agilitrix.com/2011/03/how-to-make-your-culture-work/ which outlines some of the ideas presented in the…

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    Comment #2670778

    Well, that's what TubeStop is for: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tubestop/ I'm not the guy you replied to but I didn't know what to expect when I followed the link…

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    Comment #2567560

    A friend of mine ran into the situation of having to implement the same business logic in both Javascript and Ruby. He wondered how to get around this and his solution is IncludeJS…

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    IncludeJS - Use CommonJS modules inside Ruby/Rails

    A friend of mine found himself in the situation of having to implement the same business logic in both Javascript and Ruby. So he wondered how to get rid of that duplication. The s…

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    Comment #2528494

    Nice! By they way, the hints, tips, tricks and plugins in that article can be applied to using Vim with other languages as well. Didn't know about Gundo or minibufexpl, for example…

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    Comment #2139483

    I don't know if it's decent, I'm a Linux user but there's TortoiseGit: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ Current version is 1.6.3.0, so looks like it's considered stable enough…

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    Comment #1965294

    Yes, JS was disabled. With JS enabled there's no blank page. :)

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    Comment #1962381

    When I try to subscribe with my email, I get to this page here: http://skillsapp.com/subscribe/ which is blank, you might want to look into that. :) Happening with FF 3.6.12 and Ub…

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    Comment #1812638

    Just chiming in to say that the website for knockoutjs is extremely well done, congrats! Example right on the homepage, clear communication what it does, great list of examples on …

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    Comment #1776982

    You can config Git so that it always uses rebase when pulling: git config branch.autosetuprebase always To override this simply use --no-rebase.

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    Comment #1775678

    I agree that most of the slides would require further explanation but I still found a bunch of commands I've never heard of and actually could make use of, eg git bundle and git re…

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    Could you please elaborate on that? What basic things did you have problems with?

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    Comment #1775099

    Which issues did you have exactly? I'm asking because my team members want to switch to Git after having to suffer through my praising git for long enough and I'd like to know whic…