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After recently moving to San Francisco, I joined the San Francisco Freecyclers’ Network. Freecycle is a really cool set of local groups who prefer to give away items to people who want them instead of ( Read more... )

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The other day I gave a brief (and overly-hyper) talk about git, the (very) dumb, (very) fast version control system. It was part of SyPy’s Git vs. Hg vs. Bzr night. Rather than be flamingly competitive, ( Read more... )

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Ever since I was introduced to the Scrum methodology of software development, I’ve enjoyed my work so much more than before. Most of that enjoyment is due to a sense of visibility, of knowing what’s going on ( Read more... )

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I don’t believe I have ever before posted an entry that, for all intents and purposes, is just a link to another blog post. However, this blog post is simply so brilliant and yet so short and easily- ( Read more... )

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The Mac OS X Finder has some nifty features, one of which is an exceptionally useful contextual menu item to create ZIP archives of folders. Unfortunately, the Finder also has some really, really annoying ( Read more... )

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In a lot of places in the world, many people still have to pay for bandwidth costs. I’m one of those people who just can’t afford to download lots of stuff during peak hours when my bandwidth might quickly ( Read more... )

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In a (rather beastly) project at work today, I found myself needing to import a significant number of contributed Drupal modules into Subversion vendor branches to prepare for custom development. To do so ( Read more... )

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While this feature has been around for a long time, not many people are aware that you can publish blog posts straight from Google Docs to just about any blog of your choice, including Blogger, WordPress, ( Read more... )