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And the winner is… Git

April 2, 2012
In 2010 I made the choice to use Mercurial instead of Git. That was mostly due to Mercurial having much better Windows support. It had strong tooling for the command line, Windows …
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New Year, New Job, New Stuff!

February 2, 2012
Motivation can be a funny thing. Sometimes you have it when you don’t have time for it. Other times it’s nowhere to be found when you are desperately seeking it. My motivation for …
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CoffeeScript gently reminds me that tabs are not spaces

October 4, 2011
I recently picked up Trevor Burnham’s CoffeeScript book. So far it’s a great introduction into CoffeeScript and also Node.js, two topics which I wanted to learn more about. I …
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Cutting the Cable – Life after Comcast

May 25, 2011
Like most American’s, our family had cable TV, Comcast in our area. And it was good, just expensive. Having 2 TVs, HD service, and a DVR really adds up. Throw in the sports package …
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Getting Started With MongoDB and the 10gen C# Driver

January 31, 2011
Update: While most of this article still applies to the current version of the C# driver, I have written an updated version: Getting Started With MongoDB and C# Revisited My main …
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MongoDB and scaling down?

December 13, 2010
I’ve been reading up on MongoDB. I picked up MongoDB: The Definitive Guide. It’s not a bad reference to have. I’m actually surprised how thin it is, yet it answered just about …
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5 Things to Learn in 2011

November 11, 2010
There is so much amazing stuff happening with technology today. I think I’m at a good spot in my career where I need to push my boundaries. I don’t have any development work as …
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A new focus and a new home

October 25, 2010
The big change in my job has been the de-emphasis of my development time, and now focusing on the email archive migration side of our business. I was bummed about the change, but …
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How I chose between Git and Mercurial

March 9, 2010
The current popular topic among developers is distributed version control. The current standard is Subversion, which was a nice improvement over CVS. Like most technology, when …