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And the winner is… Git
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 …
New Year, New Job, New Stuff!
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 …
CoffeeScript gently reminds me that tabs are not spaces
I recently picked up Trevor Burnham’s CoffeeScript book. So far it’s a great introduction into CoffeeScript and also Node.js, two topics …
Cutting the Cable – Life after Comcast
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 …
Getting Started With MongoDB and the 10gen C# Driver
Update: While most of this article still applies to the current version of the C# driver, I have written an updated version: Getting Started …
MongoDB and scaling down?
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 …
5 Things to Learn in 2011
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. …
A new focus and a new home
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 …
How I chose between Git and Mercurial
The current popular topic among developers is distributed version control. The current standard is Subversion, which was a nice improvement …