Jonathan's Pancheria

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Posted by Delicious auto poster Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:19:44 GMT

In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org
- More interesting information about how someone uses the features specific to git as a dvcs (the index). Different take on what the index represents, and how to use it to stage multiple feature commits out of the current diff, or how to handle complicated merges
- Posted: Tue Jan 26 04:47:42 UTC 2010

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Posted by Delicious auto poster Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:19:18 GMT

geuis’s helium-css at master – GitHub
- Interesting tool to do “code coverage” of css stylesheets. Will find any unused css selectors on a set of pages
- Posted: Mon Jan 18 03:20:12 UTC 2010

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Posted by Delicious auto poster Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:19:48 GMT

ongoing · Doing It Wrong
- Tim Bray says: “What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.”
- Posted: Tue Jan 05 21:02:29 UTC 2010

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Jul 20

Coding Horror: Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing
This posting deals largely with 37 Signals' concept of having opinionated software, but from the opposite end. "Phil wasn't making these choices because he honestly believed in them. He was making these choices because he wanted a specific outcome -- winning over Rita -- and the experimental data told him which path he should take. Although the date was technically perfect, it didn't ring true to Rita, and that made all the difference. That's the problem with A/B testing. It's empty. It has no feeling, no empathy, and at worst, it's dishonest. As my friend Nathan Bowers said: A/B testing is like sandpaper. You can use it to smooth out details, but you can't actually create anything with it. The next time you reach for A/B testing tools, remember what happened to Phil. You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing -- but you'll never win hearts and minds. If you, or anyone on your team, is still having trouble figuring that out, well, the solution is simple."

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clementine-player - Project Hosting on Google Code
Port of Amarok 1.4 to qt4/not-kde. Sounds very interesting especially since Songbird just killed official linux support.

Jul 12

William's miscellaneous git tools
A bunch of useful git scripts for working with git repos

Jul 07

Jul 01

Postel’s Law vs the Whiteboard Marker Rule « Messages in a Bottle
Interesting take on versioning, backwards compatability, and Postel's Law (roughly: "be conservative in what you produce and liberal in what you accept"). Sometimes, this post argues, you have to clean up to avoid having too many choices only some of which actually work.