06 July 2011
In the last couple of years I’ve been working on various projects that – unfortunately – still use Subversion as their version control system. I moved to git already a few years ago and I wanted to keep using it as much as possible. Luckily git-svn is an incredibly complete tool to interact with [...]
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07 October 2009
Tonight I spent sometime getting Pinax – Django swiss army knife – to work on nginx via fastcgi on my Ubuntu 9.10 box. Here is a step by step guide. First of course we need to install nginx, pretty easy with Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nginx Create a new file called <appname> in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ like [...]
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16 August 2009
I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s inherent to human nature to strive for and to create order. Maybe it’s just me. But I love staring at branches and I love cleaning up my commit history until it shines. This is of course possible and encouraged with git and it’s only possible if you [...]
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22 July 2009
Every once in a while I have wonderful conversations about life, technology and everything. Many times I end up talking about a myriad of topics. For example today I had lunch with Jonathan Greenwood (you should follow him on twitter here) and learned a great deal about many interesting things. I am always intrigued and [...]
02 July 2009
Lately I’ve been really impressed and experimented joyfully with Compass and Sass. They make css/layout design fun again for me. Even if the whole tool chain is in Ruby you don’t have to touch any Ruby to use them – don’t misunderstand me: I like Ruby and I’ve been a Rails early adopter; my brain [...]
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01 July 2009
Here is what a coding session of mine looks like when I am in full swing. This is specifically the coding screen. That’s a 1920×1600 resolution screen-shot . I obviously also have a browsing screen not shown. In the image above I am immersed into integrating Compass into Pinax (full post on that will follow). [...]
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26 November 2008
Am I the only one to notice that there is a lot of vim love in the airwaves recently? I saw the trend very clearly, spanning from reddit to news.yc and let me say that the material that came up recently is very good; those neat posts prompted me to improve my vimrc dramatically and [...]
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21 November 2008
This is the scenario I was thinking about: I want to interact with a graphic designer remotely, who is very very good with Photoshop and HTML/CSS but who might have trouble setting up the Linux environment needed to run my web app. What I would like to build (or find if it already exists) is [...]
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19 November 2008
One of the first things I implemented for tuttivisti – to add just a hint of viral marketing to the project – was a widget that you can import on your own blog, maybe on the sidebar, to show the latest movies you either want to see or just watched. Let me test it here [...]
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18 November 2008
In the first installment of this series I’ve spoken about a set of technologies that can speed up the time to market quite a bit. Read about it here if you missed it. This time I want to talk about where to get the content for your niche web app – if you need a [...]
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vim mind share soaring: roundup of 10 vim articles, recent and older gems
Using Git with Subversion: Tips that will make your life easier
how to setup pinax with nginx
Using Git with Subversion: Tips that will make your life easier
how to setup pinax with nginx
I love staring at branches and shuffle, reorder and squash commits
Andrew: Thanks!
The more I can do on the git side the b...
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