Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
Most of the time in git you will be creating branches of your main project and working on them. What if you wanted to create a ‘documentation’ branch or something? It doesn’t really deserve it’s own repository because it’s so closely related. The git project repository does this. The git project [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by dysinger
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Amazon released their new EC2 API today.
The big news: You can have static IP addresses now. You can pick the data center where your machine instance is launched. Cool!
The minor news: Lots of little things were updated. They added tmpfs to the list of LOCAL_FS_TYPES so ubuntu volume images work without [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by dysinger
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I am sitting here writing code on my laptop and listening to Sonic Youth. I have been on a SU marathon since yesterday. There is something unique about Sonic Youth for me. I don’t listen to them all the time, but when I do it really moves my soul. It sounds [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by dysinger
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Ever since I read Martin Fowler’s article on rollerskating and shared it with my partner in crime, we have been using the term and practice liberally. Fowler describes a customer service web form that a guy he knew put together. This customer service form wasn’t quite ready for the internets yet but they [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by dysinger
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I scored a hotel for two weeks in Portland by the airport for $7/night! Woot! What a score.
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 by dysinger
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Update: I need to upgrade this for amazon ec2 2008-02-01 api.
I been playing with Gentoo again. I hadn’t been an active Gentoo user since it pissed me off in a emerge -u world snafu in 2004. I created some Gentoo EC2 images and thought I would share with you all.
I have recently stopped [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2008 by dysinger
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