DVCS is Broken
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While Git (and Mercurial) is a lifesaver when it comes to easily branching, tagging, and resolving merge conflicts, Subversion (and TFS and the like) is superior when it comes to sub-project management.
Eric Mann
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Full-Stack Application Development
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My ideal blogging app/content management system/application platform would take the entire stack into account.
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The Path to my Present
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I get to keep telling stories for my customers, and I get to keep writing my own as I go.
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The Benefits of Public Speaking
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I speak at conferences not just because there’s something cool I want to present, but because there’s something cool I want to learn.
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Understanding Parallel Processing
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When I explain to people that I enjoy writing code in C# more than PHP, they scratch their collective heads and, with a quizzical look, always respond, “why?” My biggest reason: I really enjoy working with parallel processing.
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How To: Blog Every Day
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I write every day. I also publish a blog every day – even if what I wrote that day wasn’t publishable.
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Data Leakage – Part 2
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When you click a link on a page, your browser takes that page’s URL and sends it along with you as the “Referer” header. The site you end up on can then track exactly which sites are sending traffic. If your site is private (i.e. an internal company blog) and you link to an external…
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Valentine’s Day
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In high school, I wrote a short, 4-stanza poem titled My Beloved that no one really understood at the time. I was asked repeatedly who I’d written it for, and kept giving the cryptic answer, “I don’t know yet.” Fast forward a little over a decade and I finally met the women for whom this…
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WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor
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What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?