Monthly Archives: January 2009

Partially merging a branch with git

The other day I went back to an old branch that had about five files that were changed and I only wanted to incorporate two of them into my master branch. In order to just merge in a couple, I … Continue reading

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How to really disable the bell in Vimperator

Yesterday I started trying out Vimperator, and so far I’m impressed. It’s a Firefox extension that puts a vim-like keyboard interface on top of Firefox. After using it for a while, I wanted to turn the bell off, because I … Continue reading

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Rails 3 and merb slices

I’m at the Merb and Rails 3 community forum with Yehuda Katz and Matt Amionetti right now. It’s an event with no agenda; they just opened the floor to questions. I asked them a couple of questions about Merb slices. … Continue reading

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Using emacs again

After watching the Meet Emacs screencast on Peepcode and talking to a few local developers who use emacs, I’ve started using emacs again. Since I started playing around with it several weeks ago, I’ve learned about a number of useful … Continue reading

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An alternative to URL shorteners for twitter

As stated before on this blog, I’m a heavy twitter user. I tried to quit twitter and found that it was hard to leave. Eventually I just gave in. Now I’m following somewhere between 100 and 200 accounts. Sometimes I … Continue reading

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