Amazing conversation I had with my family on Facebook.
@1 month ago
This article in the New York Times is fascinating. A review of a study concluding the effects and influence we can have on our friends and social connections. Next time you’re in a bad mood, want to light up a cigarette or you want to skip the gym, think of the effect you could be having on those around you, and more importantly, the effect on people you’ve never even met.
Are your friends making you fat?
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@2 months ago
In order to keep myself on task with all my little programming projects (The LPP?), I joined the SPUC (Secret Project Update Club). I’ll post updates once a week. This week, introductions:
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Codename: Stars - I started this project about three weeks ago. I got some of the basic tests and things worked out, and an idea formed in my head. I’ve had to revisit the organization several times… still not sure I’ve got it right.
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Codename: A.C. Newman - This project is brand new, still just an idea. Gonna get it up and running soon I hope.
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Codename: Modest Mouse - I’ve been sitting on this one for ages. I’ve go a decent idea of how it’ll work, how it’ll be organized and how it’ll be written. Just have to get around to doing it now.
Hopefully the accountability of posting here will keep me making progress on all these projects. School just started, so we’ll see how that goes.
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@2 months ago
Here at Bookmans, our development flow works in stages. We code locally, push to a staging server, and move from the staging server to the live server. To manage issues we have a ticket management system setup in ActiveCollab, where tickets are assigned a number by project. A few days ago I pushed about five tickets to the staging server for review. @tilopa checked ‘em out, and told me that three of them were good to go live, but the last two had a few more quirks to work out. This actually turned into an issue for me, I had been working in a Git branch called “jared”, and merging into “master” to push to staging, then merging master with a branch called “stable” to go live. But I didn’t have a way to just push three tickets like, they were all jumbled into “master” together.
Now, when working on a new ticket, I branch out a ticket with the project name and the ticket number in it, for example “classifieds_8”. Then, when I want to push to staging, I merge that branch into “master”. When that piece of code is ready to go live, I don’t merge “master” and “stable”, I actually merge the branch containing the fix (ie, “classifieds_8”) with “stable”. This way I can push one ticket at a time to the production server.
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@3 months ago
