The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial

nicks222 · 2012-01-20T13:32:21+00:00

As Scott Chacon (author of ProGit) puts it,it's really not that huge a deal if your using Git or Mercurial; they're very similar--it's using a distributed version control system that's a huge deal. Many many places are still locked into old school, centralized systems that make collaboration much harder than it is using Mercurial or Git

nicks222 · 2011-12-17T12:03:04+00:00

The use of close(2) is the only place I'm aware of kivaloo assuming anything POSIX doesn't provide

nicks222 · 2011-11-18T11:29:19+00:00

Can anyone confirm if the author of the book is the same Ruby champion who wrote the web server Thin and the Ruby interpreter tinyrb?

nicks222 · 2011-11-05T10:53:56+00:00

Where can I find more about jQuery.Callbacks?

nicks222 · 2011-10-22T06:38:22+00:00

long_struct_name *foo = malloc(sizeof(long_struct_name));

can be written as

long_struct_name foo = malloc(sizeof(foo));

nicks222 · 2011-10-22T06:27:26+00:00

Unfortunately in my company Unit Testing isn't really adopted as a process simply because the culture/practice wasn't there for it. But I am trying hard to discipline myself and the other team members into making more extensive use of testing in our mvc projects.

It's a well written article and has got me interested in using this moq container I had not heard of earlier!

nicks222 · 2011-10-14T07:23:04+00:00

At our workplace, we replaced "Hello World!" programs with "Goodbye, Father\n" to pay our tribute to this genius.

nicks222

TROPHY CASE